Video: 5 Mistakes Beginner Photographers Make

Thursday 10 August 2017, 15:51 by Elja Trum | 8,060 views | 5 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Even as a photographer, you start without any knowledge and still have to learn everything. In this video, landscape photographer Toma Bonciu shows you 5 mistakes many beginner photographers make.

The 5 mistakes:

1. Shooting JPEG instead of RAW
2. Thinking expensive equipment will make you a better photographer
3. Not paying attention to the light
4. Not everything is worth photographing
5. Not knowing what quality is

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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5 comments

martinphili wrote on Thursday 10 August 2017 at 19:36 | reply
En mijn duit in het zakje:
# 6: niet weten wanneer je géén foto moet maken.
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Ole wrote on Friday 11 August 2017 at 11:38 | reply
Kunnen we ook punten te bedenken waarbij een meer ervaren fotograaf kan leren van een beginnen fotograaf?
1 ...
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martinphili wrote on Friday 11 August 2017 at 19:28 | reply
ja!
De ervaren fotograaf fotografeert vaak teveel "zoals het hoort" en mist daardoor de spontaniteit en onbevangenheid die de beginner nog wel heeft.
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Hans Smits wrote on Tuesday 15 August 2017 at 18:51 | reply
I still see too many people ruining RAW shots in post-processing to agree with the first statement.
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Jan Wijn wrote on Thursday 17 August 2017 at 00:10 | reply
You are mistaken: an experienced photographer, surely, who experienced the analogue era with rolls of 36-exposure film is still selective when taking photos. For an experienced talented photographer it counts: observing - photographing. Not the other way around as with beginners or non-beginners, but those who never learn or will learn what photography entails.
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