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Surely a purely personal issue, follow the ones that concentrate on the genre of photography that you wish to improve on. I subscribe to DigitalrevTV DomBower and other landscape/ nature related channels. There are lots of great videos over on the National Geographic website also.
 
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As a beginner how do I know if the guy next door knows really what he is talking about?
 
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As a beginner how do I know if the guy next door knows really what he is talking about?


Get a second or third opinion, even experts (so called) can be wrong. Ask on here, someone is usually right.:);)
 
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As a beginner how do I know if the guy next door knows really what he is talking about?
The 10 million dollar question. And unfortunately you can only learn by experience.

There's some right clever folk here, ones who's opinions you could take to the bank, unfortunately that doesn't stop others from challenging them, belittling them and generally trying to shout them down / prove them wrong.

As a total newbie, how do you know which one is right? Great question!

I've sometimes read a thread and decided the answer is obvious from the responses, whereas the OP has been left confused due to all the wrong answers I just knew to ignore.
 
That a great question Fabien, some people might give differing answers as there can be different ways of achieving the same result. So peoples opinions might differ on the right way! (there way is normally the right way) I'm sure no one would intentionally mislead you.
As Steve says cross check and normally in a post you'll probably find a couple of postings confirming the answer and adding additional useful information as well.

Re YouTube there's a lot of Pro's posting on YouTube but really depends on what topic your looking at. For example there is some excellent videos on P/shop and Lightroom. One good tip I can give you if your a PC user you can download a little program called 'YouTube downloader' it's very simple to use and you can save all your favourite videos so you can refer back to them in the future.

If you look at posters signature like Phil's and Steve's above the number of posts, there photo's posted, there Flickr sites, should speak volumes. From this you should be able to judge that whoever is answering your question here know what there about. I know that just from the number of posts doesn't necessarily follow that there not spinning a yarn but it's unlikely.
So it follows that from my signature you should take no notice of me;).
 
There are a lot of channels out there that used to be quite good but now...meh. There's:

Digital Rev if you fancy a cheap laugh at some expensive gear.
Jared Polin aka FroKnowsPhoto if you want to be punted some tacky merchandise (used to be a big fan of his, some of his early tutorials are very good).
Matt Granger (Formerly That Nokon Guy) if you're a fan of being patronised.

On the plus side there's:

Dom Bower - rather specialised advice but down to earth and easy to follow.
Phlearn - huge fan of what they do. Mainly Photoshop techniques but some good photography advice too.
Gavin Hoey - all round great teacher of photography.

Of course all of the above is just my opinion, you'd be well served to check them all out and see what works best for you. Hope they've at least given you a started for ten.
 
Yer i find Dom Bower a good watch, explains things nicely..
Jared Polin is far to enthusiastic when doing his "Sniff Test" what's that all about ???
Matt granger...meh only plus is he's a Nikon Guy :)
 
I've been following Serge Ramelli and Mike Browne. I find both of them very easy to watch which makes it easier to understand.
 
Digital rev i found were quite helpful and amusing also jared polin has some good tutorials but i find can be a little annoying.
 
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