Chapter 10. CONTINUALLY IMPROVING YOUR NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

Nurturing Your Creativity

Honing Your Technical Skills

Developing Your Style

Taking Your Next Steps

Like all art, producing good nature photography requires a continual balance between advancing your technical skills and refining your artistic vision. At times you work on the creative process; at other times you brush up on the technical aspects of photography. Neither should be neglected and neither should dominate.

Take a structured approach to practicing your photography. Like practicing technical skills, developing your creativity in a methodical way provides the best possible results.

As you've seen throughout this book, making good nature photographs doesn't come easy. And no matter where you are in your photography there is always room for improvement. This is the challenge and reward of nature photography — no matter how good you become, you can always be better.

See more. Shoot more. Keep pushing onward and upward. If you don't, your work becomes stagnant and predictable — and no photographers want to have their work considered boring!

Many people who don't practice nature photography will look at a well-made photo and say "I wish I had a better camera." As you know by now, great pictures are not made by the camera. Though a photograph can be captured by a camera, it's truly created in the mind of the photographer ...

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