How well have you improved in 12 months?

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For me I feel I have improved well over 100%
12 months ago I could not shoot in manual, I knew little about light or how to control it and my composition sucked.

After reading a lot of books, the best for me being lighten up and shoot. I have practiced a lot and learnt so much.

The crit section has helped me. Not only to improve through crit but to improve by seeing others get crit.

How much do you feel you have improved in the past year and what have been the biggest changes and influences?
 
I feel like I have improve a lot! Mostly in the composition areas. Now I'm trying to get used to the aperture priority mode... and leaving "P."
 
Ive definitly improved 100%, this time last year I knew zip about DSLR camera, I took my camera into work yesterday (we had a steamer comming past our box) and I was in manual without even thinking about it, so the working of the camera is not a mystery any more, as for the quality and the composition, I still have a lot to learn, but I am enjoying the challenge
 
Hmm, difficult one!
I guess I've improved ... I don't use 'auto' now :)
However I still do stupid things like forgetting to change white balance from cloudy to direct sunlight and things like that, I also find it difficult to capture well composed scenes - I'm not sure whether that's directly down to me or whether it's down to opportunity.
I guess I'm generally trying to 'force' an opportunity into an hour or so between other things rather than taking a day of photography and that doesn't seem to be working ... need a holiday :)
 
In the past 12 months I've had a lot more confidence with people and being relaxed about shooting. Some of this was due to upgrades but the rest has come from having the opportunity to shoot more. I really need to get more experience but not going to rush it :)
 
I haven't quite managed a year yet (9 months) but I think I'm more adventurous than I was when I started and this has meant that the IQ of my photos has suffered a bit:(. I've never shot in auto mode so that isn't an issue.... My exposure settings are though! The challenge now is to get the IQ back to what it was.....


Oh yes, my bank balance has definitely changed in these 9 months too!:eek:
 
I think I have improve in the last 12 months, but difficult to say how much. I think photography is an evolution, you're always striving to take better pictures and I would say that improvement will always come with experience.

I have been using a DSLR for just under 2 years. Although I have shot far less in the second 12 months, I think I have given my shots more consideration (is it even worth taking!?), and have a better understanding. Year 2 for me = quality over quantity.

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Wookee said:
Oh yes, my bank balance has definitely changed in these 9 months too!:eek:
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A year ago I'd never even held a DSLR or knew what aperture or exposure was! So I reckon I'm doing pretty well :D
 
Gramps if you shoot in raw you can change white balance etc afterwards. I shoot in raw+jpg just incase I make any mistakes that raw can fix. I also shoot in raw if I want higher quality pictures (such as portraits)

I hear you all with the bank balance. I've been lucky with my kit as I've always got a bargain but the 70-200 2.8 I 'need' is going to make a big dent.
 
Yeh I've improved a bit (hopefully) :) I think like everything, the more you do it the better you become - until you hit a point where you can come complacent and not push yourself enough.

I usually shoot motorsport and seeing the standard of work around is inspiration to go and try things I perhaps wouldn't normally :)

Still plenty for me to learn, particularly around the use of flash and low light stuff.
 
I haven't improved in the last 12months - but my camera equipment has thou..... Just having the problem of finding the time & or places to take it too in order to use it as it should be used :$
 
I would say yes, due to newer approach to my own work, which started about 12 months ago.
I now always try to compare my result with a similar scene taken by someone that is really good. If my result is crap in comparison, which is often the case, I work on finding out how to improve it. I think you really start to improve when you can criticise your own stuff and not expect others to advise you it is good.
 
I've been getting into photography for nearly a year now so definitely improved considerably.

Starting to get to the stage where I can see when my shots are poor but still struggle to see what I need to do about it to make them better. Reading the comments of photo's shared here is definitely helping.

As for the bank balance, that's getting poorer each month :O
 
For me it's not even been a year and noticing improvement. Before the Supermoon I was an auto guru, never even thinking about what my camera can do, tried to take a few snaps of the Moon and failed miserably, that was the changing point.
Now only go onto one of the moron settings when I want to take photos of the dog playing with other dogs (use sports mode as don't know how to do it in manual yet).
Have been stuck on A since the moon and going to go full manual anytime soon.
Have joined the DSLR bootcamp and currently experiencing a steep learning curve.
 
Got back into photography about 2 1/2 years ago with the purchase of my first digital SLR. I spent the first year learning the complexities of it and editing on a PC which I'd never done. Pictures were OKish. Six months ago I invested in some new equipment and over that period I've noticed my biggest improvement in IQ. So in percentage terms I'd say 50% improvement over the last year with equipment probably due to 40% of that. I wish I could say it was the other way round after learning quite a bit from the people on here. I do feel that I am progressing though which is the main thing I suppose.:)
 
I only seriously started to get into photography this past December, so it's not been a great deal of time. But now I know all about the basics, and shooting in manual and all that. I still have a long way to go though. Composition is a thing I think I need to work on, as is my ability to look at things differently, and take some shots that aren't the same old shots everyone else is taking. I really want to work on that latter thing.
 
Hmm... I've been at this game for over thirty years (I got my first SLR when I was twelve).

It's seven years since I went digital and nearly twenty since I first used Photoshop.

I think I know what I'm doing most of the time.

The stuff I know I don't know about, I know I'm not that interested in anyhow (macro photography or studio lighting, etc.) :suspect:

:thinking:

One thing I have learned that a phone is now occasionally a useful photographic tool :lol:
 
A year ago I started back into serious photography after a long break. In this year I've bought 4 cameras (initially a 450d, then a 1D Mk2, then a 1Ds and yesterday dipped my foot into medium format with a Mamiya 645AFD).

I feel I've improved a lot in the year, remembering how to use an SLR, how useful it is being able to change ISO (!) etc and have worked on till I use manual exposure a lot and sometimes manual focus.

Now I've set myself a new challenge with a start in medium format so another load of stuff to learn.
 
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