Honing photography skills is an ongoing goal of most photographers. However, remembering all the settings on your camera can be enough to frustrate even experienced photographers, let alone someone just learning the art. There are some steps you can take to avoid being too overwhelmed when it comes to using your camera and grow your photography skills.
Jim Hamel, writer for Digital Photography School, shares how to avoid getting overwhelmed when learning photography.
Likely, you are working hard to improve your photography. You are trying to master all the settings on your camera, trying to control things like depth of field while trying to improve your focus and the sharpness of your photos. And then there are all those rules of composition to think about as well. That is a lot to remember, and it can be overwhelming. Frankly, it is enough to make you nostalgic for the good old days when you put your camera in Auto mode and fired off snapshots.
Before you revert to that, however, let’s take a look at a few ways you can avoid that feeling of overwhelm, and continue to grow as a photographer.
#1 – Use Swing Keys
First, you can take a page from other areas of life that subject people to being overwhelmed. Perhaps no activity involves a feeling of overwhelm for the beginner more so than golf.
Read the entire article How to Avoid Being Overwhelmed When Learning Photography on Digital Photography School.