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I follow all kinds of photography blogs... I like to look at different style's and see what they "come up with"... I've always been a picture junkie.

Two of the blogs I follow could hardly be different in type. One is real life photography and the other super fake, though pretending it's real life. Hard to explain and rude to put up links, cause who am I to judge?

Anyway, both have one thing in common. They charge a lot of money to share their "secrets". Why? WHAT ARE THE SECRETS?

Now don't get me wrong I have never been and don't wanna be a MENTOR and I do not have those secrets they are talking about, but I've studied photography and know some things some of you might not know...

HERE ARE MY "Secrets":

1st : if you wanna become a photographer, do NOT underestimate the importance of the technical knowledge. If you don't know (and I mean know) what ISO, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, manual setting, focusing, bulb... mean and how they play off each other, you are NOT READY. look it up online, there is nothing you can't learn, but you have to before you can take pictures properly.

2nd : Learn to see what you want to get from a picture BEFORE you take it.: learn lighting, do you want shadows in your pictures or do you want an even skin tone... do you want to add the "cool" lens flare or do you want it crisp and clean? Do you wanna use reflectors and flashes or just use the natural light?

3rd : you can fix a lot in photo shop, but it'll be suckie work and in the end it won't look perfect either. TAKE THE PICTURE RIGHT AT THE FIRST POINT. take time to adjust the camera. re-adjust during the whole shoot

4th : don't over-edit in photo shop. unless people want a funky style, they likely just want REALLY GOOD pictures, they wanna look their best with a natural flair to it.

5th : get inspired by others, but do NOT copy one to one. it just does not turn out natural, i think. make the pictures your own. and use the personalities of your clients to guide you.

6th : make realistic and fair prices. if you get to a point where you "weed out" you may wanna up-do your pricing...

7th : never stop learning. there is no way anyone knows all the in and outs about photography.

If you are interested in knowing a little more detail about one thing or the other, leave me a comment and i'll try to blog about it...

Thank you, my Max for being an example in sharing. What goes around, comes around. Good luck all of you and enjoy taking pictures weather for a profession or as a mom, dad, uncle, sister, ...