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by jim on April 1, 2007

Source:www.jimippolito.com
Many digital camera owners are content with taking pictures of their family and friends and documentary type photos of their vacation locations.
Eventually though, as their technique improves, and compliments start coming, such as the famous and flattering, "Ooh, that looks just like a postcard," many amateur photographers begin exploring the "artsy" side of picture taking.
Looking at the work of other photographers, both professionals and talented amateurs, can spark creative ideas, and the next time the family "snap shooter", is in a scenic location he or she suddenly starts to look at objects and scenes in a different way.
Now it's no longer enough to simply record the scene for the sake of reminiscence, the snap shooter now wants to create a work of art, and digital cameras make it easy to get started.
The camera itself will not turn you into a Jay Maisel, or my personal hero, Ansel Adams, but it will allow you to become more of the artist inside yourself, through inexpensive trial and error.
In the 60's we called this "Discovering the inner you", and it's still viable.
I came across the first two parts of a photo essay put together by a highly talented amateur photographer, a medical doctor by profession, who has chronicled his own progression from snap shooter to serious photographer.
Here's part one, and this is part two.
Part three should be published soon.
Check it out for stimulating thought and inspiration, and then get out and start viewing the world around you from different angles, and at different times of the day and year. See what a difference a change in lighting and perspective will show you in your viewfinder or on your LCD.
I took today's picture during September, 2006, at Mount Charleston, about 40 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, with my Kodak P880.
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Photographers go through stages of development, and while we don’t all follow the same path, an understanding of our current level of skill, creativity and artisty is, I think, an important exercise. If we know where we are and we have an idea of where we want to be, it becomes a lot easier to determine the path from here to there and to take steps to get us there. Most of us have never given much thought to where we are in terms of skill, creativity and artistry, and even if we did, are not necessarily good judges of our own skills and levels so this is not a trivial process. While gradually and continuously striving to improve does in the end result in progress, I propose that we find a better and perhaps more direct route to becoming better photographic artists.
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