If you are into photography, having bought a camera or two and read lots of camera reviews but scantily books on photographic techniques, my counsel to you is: "How sacrilegious!"
If photography is about anything, it is least about cameras. In the film era, at least in Hong Kong, there was quite some number of advanced photographers being keen on using low-end point-and-shoot cameras to do great photos by using their photographic skills to work around the cameras' limitations.
Maybe I have forgotten more than what I have read, but I have read quite a number of materials on photographic skills. Most of them were borrowed from the libraries. But we all want to take short cuts and back roads to get to the destinations easier and faster, don't we?
Just in case you have missed it, one of these short cuts is to scan through the masters' works. If you asked me, I try to see from the shooters' perspective for the intriguing photos which catch my attention: What did the photographer try to express? Why did the photographer do the picture this way? What if the shutter release was pressed a second earielr or later. These are some of the questions I usually ask.
The photos (screen captures) in this post are the weekly best pictures voted by the editors here. For more, see here. Don't skip the books though.
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