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If you take a picture in colour, don't open Photoshop to change it to black white because it looks better! When you take the picture, it's YOUR DECISION TO MAKE, to switch your camera into black and white mode. Photography is all about feelings, and sometime you just get that feeling to take that picture in black and white. A good tip : when you want to take a picture of something that looks sad or "lugubre" (example a dead tree), most of the time, it'll look better in B&W

A lot of people have $2000 DSLR's, but just don't know how to use them (I'm so jealous). They stick to AUTO mode. Is this bad? Well yes and no. Generally speaking, the more expensive the camera, the better the picture (I wish I were wrong). So yes, why not buy a more expensive camera if you can afford it, even if you don't know how to use it, you get better quality pictures, and as an added bonus you can show off with it. If you want to take pictures of your kids playing in the garden, you'll get great results. But one day, you never know, you might actually get the "genius idea" of reading the user manual, switching to manual mode, and t

"I just took a picture, but it looks awful. This camera sucks…" Stop right here. If your picture looks bad, in 99% of the cases IT'S YOUR FAULT! And you know what? It's probably the best thing that can happen... Wait a minute? WHY? Because photography is all about trial and error, if you want to learn something, you have to make mistakes! That's really hard, I know, because when you are seizing a unique moment, you don't have a lot of time to take your shot! Sometimes you just don't have time to think. Therefore your only option is to rely on instinct. Instincts are based on your photographic experience, which is mostly based on your … … "f