Okay when I
say medium I am not talking about one of those people that tell you your future
or speak with the dead but I am referring to the medium an artist decided to
work in. It’s important that any artist
take the time to learn about the medium he or she decides to work in. It’s all part of the self-teaching we each
have to go through to master our craft.
For some of us that mean knowing what people have done before and how
they got the results that they did.
For me it
started with photography. I took book
after book about photography out of the library so often the libraries knew me
if not by name than by how I looked. I
scrounged around the Internet for blog and other tutorials information I could
that would enlighten me more about how photographers got some of the awesome
shots I see in magazines or online. Occasionally
they were just master of the post processing their images till it's look the way
they wanted or the photographer just new how their equipment worked at the
time. It forced me to learn a lot more
how to work with the equipment I had and made me learn how to process a photo
correctly.
Because of
my diving into photography and learning as much as I could about it I stopped just
shooting in JPEG and in time stopped shooting in JPEG plus RAW. Now just shoot in RAW. Once upon a time I would shoot and not bother
with post processing. Now I wouldn’t
even think about posting an image without doing some post processing work on
it. Luckily Lightroom is a great program
for photographers and not as hard to learn as Photoshop is. I see myself getting to the point where I
would need Photoshop for some of the images I want to do but for now Lightroom
does majority of the things I need to do.
I expect
there will be a great deal more for me to learn but so is whatever type of art
one undertakes.
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