Help! Learning Photography....

[Luke]

I'm wanting to get more into photography, now by the looks of it I get the lense converters for my Canon so I can use my Dads old lenses (see other thread).

Now I'd love to be able to afford a photography course, but I don't think I have the time and at the minute, I'm trying to save money to go on holiday etc.

Is there any books you recommend?
Whats best way to self teach?

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Luke

[Jungle_Jim]

Luke i would recommend buying the Michael Langford book 'Basic Photography' (you can preview some of it on google books here http://books.google.com/books?id=mj60n3uH4eMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=langford+basic+photography&sig=ACfU3U28he27XWfifJN7uj_3OEeXOBFUdQ)

It is a key text that i had to purchase for my BA so it goes right from the very basics up to quite a high theoretical level. It will help give you a better understanding behind what makes a good photograph as well

definately worth a read.

James

[mattchewone]

Cheers for that James that looks like a good read!

There is another book that i would recommend called - understanding exposures by Bryan Peterson. Thats a good read!

Practice practice and more practice Luke, just play about, adjust settings review the picture & histogram and see what happens.
Then post up on here if you have any queries this and talkphotography is great!

[Jack_234]

Also, have a look at YouTube, there are walkthroughs for just about everything. :)