Bird On A Stick

Have you been shooting for awhile? Have you mastered the exposure triangle and understand your camera menus and controls?

But are you improving?

Do you go out with the same camera and the same lens to the same places and wonder why your images keep looking the same?

Simon d’Entremont, an east coast Canadian wildlife photographer, calls this syndrome “Bird on a Stick” and he explains how to move forward with your photography in this excellent YouTube video “The REAL REASON your PHOTOGRAPHY isn’t improving.”

So how do you change?

One of the biggest reasons photographers feel stuck is they’re measuring the wrong thing says d’Entremont.

Think about it. When we come back from a photo shoot whether on a local three-hour photo walk or a three-week photo vacation what’s the first thing we look at?

We zoom to 100% and we check our images for noise and sharpness and technical flaws and enough dynamic range. If everything looks perfect we say “good photo”.

But really does that matter?

If you look at some of the best images shot by some of the best photographers it quickly becomes apparent that none of that really matters.

As d’Entremont concludes: “Nobody cares”!

So what does matter? Well you should watch this 11-minute video. it might change your photography for the better forever.