Portal talk:Arts/Learn/Selection

Hi, I am a professional commercial photographer, I wanted to give my input on this entry:

"Take your camera, be it a DSLR, a point and shoot camera, or your cell phone. Take ten photos a day for a week. Every day, select just one to keep. Every week, select one of those "finalist" photos to keep.

''This will help develop your selective eye for judging quality works. Drawing or any other medium can be reasonably substituted for photography.''"

I have to say; this is useless, if you take a photo and it happens to be good great, but this teaches you nothing about the process. You will never be able to duplicate the elements of the photo unless you know what went in to it. And that can not be done with a point and shoot or a cellphone, or a DSLR on auto.

This promotes leaving the quality of your shots to chance, and understanding nothing of what makes the photo good: What settings in relation to what lighting, in relation to what subject.

It works fine for learning composition, but the same can be said for looking at advertisements in a magazine.

I think some mention of changing and using manual settings, observing their effects, etc, has to be included for this advice to be at all productive or helpful.

Its all very nice, and sweet, but it doesn't teach much of anything.