So, You Want to Be a Photographer?

So, you want to be a photographer? Congratulations! You are now a photographer. Go. Now. (Not right now, wait until you finish reading this post) Run along. Take some photographs. Sure, you may need some new equipment eventually. It’s OK. All photographers feel the same way. The hardware, however, is nowhere near as important as your eye, your imagination, your creativity, or just your desire to create the perfect photograph.

“I write only one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Ernest Hemingway once remarked to F. Scott Fitzgerald. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” On my Nikon D200, the little button with the wastebasket icon falls conveniently beneath my left thumb.

So go out and shoot some photographs. Shoot when you have a vision of what you want to create. Shoot when you don’t have the faintest idea. Use your wastebasket. Shoot until you capture the image that will drive you to go out the next day and shoot some more. Shoot when you know you should be cleaning the garage, or raking the yard. Shoot when you just don’t feel like it.

Get familiar with your camera’s controls. Learn the relationship between aperature and depth of field. Heck, make sure you know what depth of field is. Learn all about ISO settings, shutter speeds, and focal length. Try new angles and perspectives. Use your camera until it until it becomes an extension of yourself. Get used to seeing everything through a viewfinder. Compose, compose, compose. Carry your camera with you all of the time, and shoot more pictures… After that, go out and buy that Nikon D3x you’ve had your eye on.

Why? Because you are a photographer. Hemingway would be proud.

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