The Best Photo You've Ever Taken
From photography's invention in the 1830s until Kodak introduced the first Brownie cameras in 1900, only professionals produced photos, and at great expense. More affordable and portable after that, photography began to reflect and shape our lives. This week, please post the best photo you've ever taken on your blog using the Add An Image vertical tab, and tag your post best photo I've ever taken blog. Don't forget to tell us about what makes it so special.
A few selected shutterbugs will receive Sean Arbabi's The Complete Guide to Nature Photography: Professional Techniques for Capturing Digital Images of Nature and Wildlife. Sean's book contains 250 pages- 250+ images- 50,000 words, 10 chapters, 10 assignments covering the gamut of nature, outdoor, wildlife, and macro photography.
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The best photo I've ever taken
Okay, I won't blog about this since it's my book that's being given away (big thanks Red Room!).
What was he best photo I've ever taken? I've always struggled to answer this - (1) because I have many I'm proud of, for different reasons, and (2) sometimes the photos you feel are your best aren't the public's favorites.
Then I realized a third reason- and this answer has stuck ever since.
There are many I'm proud of, and often they are images I never thought I could capture- and many are in my new book. One is an image of a rock climber jumping across a 6 foot gap to a mushroom-shaped pinnacle in southern Utah. Another is a fall scene of colorful leaves framing Yosemite Valley and the Merced River. One more that comes to mind was the cover of my first book (The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure)- a sunrise scene of a silhouetted woman sitting on a rock in Jenny Lake as the sun struck the Teton range. Many other photographs come to mind, and I feel privileged to have a collection of images I'm proud of. When it comes to photography, one piece of advice I could give would be to enjoy the process of the art- sometimes you nail a shot, and other times you get lucky- and if it were easy, it wouldn't be as fun.
So when I'm asked "what's the best photo you've ever taken?", today my response is usually "hopefully the next one".
the best is yet to come
Hi Sean,
I like your answer. Too often people are judged by the last job they've done. And sometimes that leads to fatigue, both on the side of the creator and the patron. To be able to look for yet the better piece of work is a positive, optimistic, and far from blassee point of view.
The cover design of your book is attractive. Lovely, the way the color of the text picks up on the color of the sun exposed top of the rocks, and the white along the river.
Would love to "win" your book, but if I won't I'll check it out anyway.
Best,
Judith