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It's a buyer's market for money. That may not seem to be the case, coming on the heals of Federal Reserve Board interest rate hikes of more than 2% in the past 17 quarters. But stiff competition among lenders has reduced the spread between what they pay for money and what they charge producers.
"There's a lot of competition. Banks are charging farmers 130 basis points or 1.3% less than they usually do," says Michael Swanson, ag economist for Wells Fargo, citing Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago data. The cost of funds has gone up, but banks have not passed all those costs through, Swanson says.
Stronger competition
The reason for heightened competition is at least fourfold, sources say:
Netherlands-based Rabobank has gone from making no farm loans to becoming a top farm lender in just three years; Bank of the West has moved east to seek farm customers; and other lenders want to boost their ag portfolios.
Overall, the agricultural economy has been strong for several years running.
Lenders must share fewer farmers as the industry continues to consolidate.
Strong land values have spiked in recent years, giving bankers confidence that farmers have the collateral to back up loans.
There may be one more important reason, in the view of Elizabeth Hund, the head of U.S. Bank's food and agriculture division: "As the technology bubble burst, bankers started looking at industries more stable, though less sexy, such as agriculture." The result, she says, "is that there is a lot of capital dedicated to this industry." That means U.S. Bank, along with Wells Fargo, the Farm Credit System, Rabobank, community banks and other lenders, are aggressively seeking new customers. "It's good business," Hund says. "Our ag portfolio is in good shape."
Dennis Kelly, senior financial services team leader for AgStar Financial Services, Mankato, MN, says there "is a lot of competition" among lenders for good farm customers right now, not only among traditional lenders, but also seed companies and other suppliers that have become strong lenders in the past couple of years. More competition, he adds, "helps keep the rates down."
Another piece of good news for farmers, Hund and others say, is that the Federal Reserve Board appears to have finished raising interest rates. "The Fed does not like to increase rates in election years," Hund says. "The Fed likes to be stable."
University of Illinois economist Paul Ellinger agrees that "credit availability has remained strong" due to competition among lenders. He also notes that there are some interest rate specials through the end of the year "regarding financing for 2007 pre-paids."
Land values
Not all is roses in farm finance, however. According to the AgLetter published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, increases in the value of farmland slowed in the second quarter of 2006 and credit conditions drifted down from the conditions of a year earlier. Though smaller percentages of agricultural loans were classified as having major or severe repayment problems compared with the loans of six months ago, the rate of loan repayment fell from the second quarter of 2005.
Kelly notes, however, that the farm economy AgStar serves as part of the Farm Credit System in parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota "has strengthened locally due to good crops and strong prices." He adds, though, that while there is plenty of capital available for farmers, they are thinking twice before making purchases, especially with short-term variable-rate loans that carry higher interest rates than was the case a year ago.
New programs
Competition among lenders also has encouraged them to offer new types of loans and other products, revamp existing products or find new ways of delivering them.
AgStar has several new loan programs, Kelly says. In August, the lender enhanced its Young or Beginning Farmer Program, making it "more robust" with an additional pool of money available and relaxing some of its credit standards.
AgStar also has introduced a revolving line of credit producers can take out on real estate loans that can be paid back over a period of time. The maximum amount on the revolving credit line is $100,000 and it can be used for any farm-related expenditure. AgStar also has begun offering grain loans. Kelly says that if farmers take their loan deficiency payments (LDPs) in the fall, which were $0.51/bu. last year, they no longer can keep their Farm Service Agency loan on the grain. Ag Star's new loan program allows a producer to take the LDPs and take out a grain loan, Kelly says.
John Deere Credit "offers a whole suite of finance products that can meet many of the key business needs of farmers," such as installment loans and leases for equipment with a variety of repayment options "so we can best match a customer's cash flow," says Jim Meenagh, manager of planning and corporate communications. One product is Farm Plan, which is a revolving credit product for inputs and other products sold through agribusinesses. John Deere Credit also offers seasonal financing sold through seed companies, conventional operating loans and crop insurance.
As far as the ag climate is concerned, Meenagh says that "we're obviously coming off a number of very good years in agriculture and many farmers are in good shape financially, which has made lending a little easier. This year is looking to be another good year in most parts of the country, and even though we're seeing some increases in delinquencies, we have not made any material change to our lending practices." He adds, however, that some lenders have pulled back from farmers in drought areas and farmers who are not financially strong.
One-stop shopping
Rabobank's U.S. lending arm, Rabo AgriFinance, has introduced a new arrangement with AgriCredit Acceptance, Des Moines, IA, an affiliate company. The move will allow Rabo AgriFinance to enhance its one-stop shop offering for operating and real estate loans, as well as equipment and equity lines of credit, says Shawn Smeins, managing director for Rabo AgriFinance. The new arrangement will allow Rabo AgriFinance to "more aggressively market its wide range of financial products and adds more competition to the market and value for our clients," Smeins says.
One of Rabobank's benefits for borrowers, Smeins says, is "that we have a food and agriculture research team that looks at trends and issues, publishing reports and consulting with clients — a benefit customers can draw from. We have a significant degree of flexibility for qualified borrowers."
Smeins says that with increases in the prime rate, operating loans are now in the 7.5 to 8.25% range, with 10- to 15-year fixed-rate loans on real estate between 6.5 and 7%. The difference between the two rates is that variable rates are priced off the prime rate, while longer-term fixed rates are based off the bond market. Overall, Smeins says, "the industry is pretty stable. Our clients' balance sheets are in good shape."
Check-scanning ability
Several banks now offer a new system that enables farmers to scan checks so that they are immediately credited to their accounts, says Sam Miller, senior vice president of the M&I bank in Appleton, WI. M&I also offers a 10-year fixed-rate loan up to $250,000 based on the value of the farm home — similar to a home equity loan — that producers can use for any farm purpose.
Swanson of Wells Fargo says that, in addition to a variety of lending program options, his bank has been working to offer risk management tools. One is a program for grain and livestock in which producers can hedge their commodities but do not have to establish margin accounts.
U.S. Bank's goal is not only to be a full-service lender, but also to offer special programs, Hund says. One example, she says, is a program in which farmers can issue credit cards to their employees who drive trucks, so they can refuel them when needed.
All of these sources say that, despite tighter monetary policy designed to cut the supply of money and reduce inflation, when it comes to agriculture, the supply of credit is not only there, it has increased.


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Investiture: Class of 2007
The Investiture ceremony honoring degree recipients was held June 9, 2007 in Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center. Dean Joseph Helble presided over the presentation of hoods, caps, and awards to the 123 recipients of Bachelor of Engineering and graduate degrees.
Thayer School's Robert Fletcher Award recognized Dr. John P. Holdren, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center, for distinguished achievement and service. In his Investiture speech, Holdren, an expert on global environmental change, sustainable development, and energy technology and policy, outlined economic, environmental, and security issues surrounding energy challenges. Solutions will require advances both in technologies and in public policy, he told graduates.
"Engineers have an important role to play not only in the design and development and deployment of the improved technologies that are needed, but also in the public and political debates that must occur if the needed policies are to materialize. As I tell my own students, the 'numbers' are not everything in public policy — unquantifiable matters of preferences and priorities and politics always enter, too — but forming public policy without an appreciation for the technical facts on the ground is a prescription for failure," Holdren said. "Engineers with the sorts of training you have received at the Thayer School — practical people who understand how technology works and how it is linked to the condition of the economy, the environment, and national and international security — need to be in the thick of the policy debate if we are to get sensible answers. Do not let anybody tell you otherwise."
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- 11 — Master of Science
- 35 — Master of Engineering Management
- 67 — Bachelor of Engineering
- 61 — A.B., Engineering Sciences
The Dartmouth Society of Engineers Prize for outstanding B.E. project: David Manegold '02 Th'07, Henning Olsson Th'07, and Staffan Skallenas Th'07
The Dean's Service Award for outstanding service to Thayer School, Dartmouth, or the broader world: Meredith Lunn '06 Th'07
The Charles F. and Ruth D. Goodrich Prize for outstanding achievement: Christina Behrend '07
The Caroline Henderson Prize for best M.E.M. project: Doris Ang Th'06 and Ryan Conger '05 Th'07
The Thayer School of Engineering Corporate Collaboration Council Engineering Design Prize for best performance in ENGS 190/290: Chris Polashenski '07 Th'07 and Luke Wachter '06 Th'07
The Thayer School of Engineering Faculty Award for Academic Excellence in B.E. course work: Erica Wygonik '99 Th'07
The Brieanna S. Weinstein Engineering Design Prize for new technologies, systems, or devices addressing physical or developmental disabilities: Kathryn Boucher '09, Alex Latham '09, Brian Mengwasser '09, and James Preston '09
The John C. Woodhouse Engineering Design Prize for cost-effective designs of experimental equipment: James Joslin '05 Th'07
The John C. Woodhouse Environmental Engineering Prize for outstanding work in environmental study or research: John Ballard '07 Th'07, Parke MacDowell '07, Hillary Price Th'07
Excellence in Teaching Award: Simon Shepherd Adv'99
Outstanding Service Award for Faculty: John P. Collier D'72 Th'77
Outstanding Service Award for Staff: Ellen Stein '86 and web design team members Catha Lamm, Alison Findon, Ellen Frye, and Karen Endicott
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Anita was afraid of going to public places, and admitted she didn't respond when people tried to contact her. I explained to Anita that rather than critically deny what she was experiencing, or shut down as she had, she must work with her emotions by recognizing and letting harmful feelings flow away.
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This can lead to debilitating irrational or unrealistic anxiety, and can become one's prominent mood. When a person is locked into avoidance, repression and anxiety can create health problems and can lead to chronic stress disorder.
After our first few sessions, Anita acknowledged that she had a growing obsession with fear, and she wanted to be free of it. She agreed to participate in this self-hypnosis program.
Step One. Get in a quiet place and practice this process. Close your eyes and relax, counting backward from 10 to one; visualize going deeper within yourself and away from disturbing fears.
Step Two. Use auto-suggestion in this relaxed state, such as: "I respond in only healthy ways to concerns that are warning signals of true risks. I let go of all illusionary fears."
Step Three. In this step, Anita imagined all illusionary fears wrapped neatly in a bundle and, in her mind, tied this closed. She put this bundle of false fears inside the basket of a hot air balloon and watched it lift into the air. As it rose out of sight, she affirmed, "I let all illusionary fears go into the wind."
Step Four. Use another auto-suggestion: "At the count of five, I will be filled with courage and prepared to cope with a truth-based reality. At the count of five, I will be alert, awake, aware to begin new opportunities and adventures."
Eventually, Anita became internally directed by truth, not by fear. Over the next few weeks, she began to find a center of peace, along with the courage and self-confidence to venture out again.
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The World of Storage Has Changed: Data Types, Access Models, Demand and Use Cases
Over the past decade, the explosive growth of large-scale, data-driven applications has begun to shift the nature of enterprise storage infrastructure fundamentally. The traditional paradigm of hardware-centric, file-based systems is moving aside to make way for new software-defined, object-based approaches.
The new paradigm is an object-oriented one: a world of pictures, movies, ecommerce and Web data, search, and games, and archives of all of these. In this world, objects (information) are written, read and deleted but never modified. Increasingly, systems and data centers are designed for capacity rather than performance. Tiering and distribution have become imperative. Analytics have become both routine and essential—on demand, in real time, across any dimension and any heat of data.
In addition, because Ethernet is the undisputed fabric of data centers and application traffic, it has unsurprisingly emerged as the backbone of storage infrastructure. This can be seen by the phenomenal growth of virtual server and desktop infrastructure, as well as the rampant adoption of Amazon Web Services to validate this latter point.
This growth is driven by the increasing prominence of mobile, social, cloud computing and big data. These applications rely on data that is primarily unstructured (or semi-structured), and easy and inexpensive to create. As a result, the value of analytics, regulation and personal expectations for data preservation will fuel the growth in storage infrastructure now and in the foreseeable future.
The combination of these factors redefines storage devices, interfaces and full-stack architectures. In order for the industry to achieve the growth demanded to support these storage demands, we must strip out layers of inefficiency from legacy architectures and introduce a new approach optimized for scale-out application and data center needs.
The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage developer tools do exactly this. It implements and enables the most efficient stack (devices, protocol, interface, software, systems) to optimize for current and future application demands, uniquely enables object-oriented applications to take direct advantage of storage, and fuels scale-out data center innovation. In doing so, it enables significant gains in performance, manageability and total cost of ownership (TCO).
The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Data Center vs. the Traditional Model: Disintermediation, Disaggregation, Security
The Seagate Kinetic Storage platform represents an opportunity to substantially address the inefficiencies of traditional data centers whose legacy architectures are not well-adapted to highly distributed and capacity-optimized workloads of exploding unstructured data and applications.
Current data centers are characterized by multiple layers of software and hardware stacked together in order to enable a data path between two poorly compatible systems: an object-oriented application layer and a hardware layer (spanning HDDs, SSDs and tape) based on block-storage. The transit path from application to storage requires multiple layers of manipulation from databases, down through POSIX interfaces, file systems, volume managers and drivers. Information passes over Ethernet, through Fibre Channel, into RAID controllers, SAS expanders and SATA host bus adapters.
For example, a traditional stack might look something like Figure 1, below:
Figure 1: Model of the Traditional Storage Stack: Server, Storage Server and Devices
Beyond the obvious inefficiency of having to move through multiple layers, this model relies on an outdated assumption about the operation of local storage devices, which was organized close to, and based on, the physical attributes of a device. This has all changed. However, the software stack has not adequately evolved.
The majority of today's mass scale object applications do not need either file semantics or a file system to determine and maintain the best strategy for space management on a device. Modern applications only need object semantics (e.g., write the whole thing, read the whole thing, delete the whole thing, refer to it by a handle chosen by the client and cluster manager), not where data resides on a given device.
In order to manage this complexity, an entire ecosystem of storage server technology providers (both hardware and software) has developed purely to abstract it from both the device and the application layers. Not only is this inefficient, it also introduces additional barriers between the two sides that can impede surfacing of storage features and functionality.
What if we could start over and restructure the stack from the bottom up? What would it look like if object-oriented applications could connect directly to in the language of the storage device? Well, it would look like the Seagate Kinetic Storage platform.
The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform
Seagate Kinetic Storage is:
Together, these pieces enable applications to target storage devices directly and take best advantage of storage features. Drives communicate in keys and values. For example, they do gets, puts and deletes. They allow applications to distribute objects and manage clusters while letting the drive efficiently manage functionality, such as
So, in contrast to the traditional stack described above, the Seagate Kinetic Storage stack might look like Figure 2.
Figure 2. The Seagate Kinetic Storage Stack
The Seagate Kinetic Storage model has a number of significant and exciting implications. For example:
Scale-out is simplified, cost-effective and unconstrained by legacy architectures and infrastructure. Information is now just an IP address away.
Segate Kinetic Open Storage platform APIs
APIs are designed to provide developers with direct access to essential and optimized storage features and functionality in an open and extensible way. Developers using multiple software stacks—open source and proprietary—and, working within the data center architecture, can build upon the Seagate Kinetic Storage foundation to tackle the most difficult storage challenges. The design is intended to fuel open innovation in software, enabling unique problems to be solved flexibly and optimally.
Furthermore, many long-desired capabilities of hard disk drives are now possible. For example:
In addition to these values, the Seagate Kinetic Storage key/value semantic abstraction enables drive innovation (e.g., in media technology, sector size) to advance in parallel with, and independently of, software innovation above the Seagate Kinetic Storage layer. Developers no longer have to implement changes in software in order to benefit from underlying drive technology advances. The application simply operates on defined keys and values, and the drive executes seamlessly and optimally behind Seagate Kinetic Storage.
The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Value Proposition: Performance, Scale, Simplicity, TCO and Security
The Seagate Kinetic Storage platform is architected to enable simple, flexible storage performance and scaling. It delivers optimal TCO for data center storage providing savings both in capital outlays and operational expenses.
By design, Seagate Kinetic Storage-supported drives are native key/value stores. This shifts the burden of maintaining the space mapping of a device from a file system to the drive itself. Applications can put and get objects; they no longer need to guess at LBA layout or prescribe data location. This shift largely eliminates a very significant amount of drive I/O that moves no data but rather represents metadata- and file system-related overhead.
There is also incremental benefit here for scaling: As both device manufacturers and cloud data center operators ramp up device capacity as aggressively as possible, the increased I/O efficiency—and resulting net I/O utilization—enables a more balanced scaling of I/O and capacity, in addition to absolute performance on a given device and across a Seagate Kinetic Storage cluster.
Incremental downstream performance gains come from the improved manageability enabled by the key/value semantic abstraction. For example, this abstraction allows for graceful handling of device failures, including partial failures, in some cases without the corresponding extensive rebuild times characteristic of large-capacity drives.
The Seagate Kinetic Storage platform is uniquely optimized for explosive-growth, scale-out data centers. The Seagate Kinetic Storage architecture with its disaggregation of storage from compute enables cloud data center operators to simply add storage as the need for capacity grows. Additionally, the combined impact of Ethernet connectivity and the key/value API command structure enables incremental capacity to be scaled in a highly distributed manner with the replication of data directed from drive to drive with minimal incremental system and capex cost.
Simplicity, Ease-of-Use Adoption
Customers can build their own management applications or call the drive directly using the Seagate Kinetic Storage APIs. The APIs are designed to enable rapid integration into a wide variety of storage software applications. Additionally, Seagate Kinetic Storage devices can be discovered dynamically, enabling adoption into existing data centers and a heterogeneous environment evolution.
Specific Seagate drives are provided with a comprehensive user-space library that allows applications to access the drive directly. This library provides the complete interface to access the data and to manage the drive. It bypasses the normal operating system storage stack and lets the application talk directly to the drive as if it were talking to another service in the data center. This process utilizes a typical application remote procedure call (RPC). This Kinetic Storage API platform currently provides libraries for Java, C++, C, Python, and Erlang, and other languages will be provided over time.
The Seagate Kinetic Storage API allows applications to interact with the drive as if it were a typical key/value service on the network; it allows applications to put data in the form of keys and values to the drive and to get this data back by specifying just the key. As one would expect, keys and their values can be deleted. Additionally, the keys are ordered so that searching of the keys within ranges and finding the next and previous keys are possible.
The schematic below shows the basic architecture.
Initial implementations of the Seagate Kinetic Storage API include Swift and Riak CS, with others in process. These systems allow thousands of drives to be managed as a single, reliable storage cluster. With such third-party management software, not only is the data stored reliably (using replication and/or erasure coding), but failed drives are also recovered transparently to the applications.
There are also extensive drive management commands that allow the drive to report its health and to manage who is allowed to communicate with the drive.
TCO Improvement
The Seagate Kinetic Storage platform allows implementation of new data center architectures. This is because Seagate Kinetic Storage drives can interface directly with the applications, thereby eliminating an entire tier of hardware.
This technological advantage allows denser storage racks, which impacts TCO in a number of different areas:
The increase in rack density provides another strong cost benefit for cases where physical real estate is a significant consideration, for example, data centers located in co-location facilities. The greater rack density means a significantly lower physical footprint for the data center, which translates directly into cost savings.
Exact impact on TCO will vary according to a number of factors (number of HDDs behind each storage server, real estate characteristics, etc.) specific to a given data center.
The security of storage services within the cloud data center is a difficult task. The interface library supports:
This is a marked difference to other distributed storage systems where, inside the data center, traffic between services are not only unsecured but also unauthenticated. This gives anyone who has access to the data center complete and unfettered access to the storage to read, modify and even delete all the data. In these situations, the security becomes the responsibility of the networking infrastructure and higher-cost networking, separate network islands or complicated VLANs. The Seagate Kinetic Storage security architecture allows low-cost and flexible data center networking architectures.
Key Takeaways
The Seagate Kinetic Storage platform represents a fundamental and important leap forward in storage architectures. The demands of our always-connected, mobile and online world—and the corresponding massive cloud storage infrastructure required to support it—mandate true re-envisioning of best practices and technology. The Seagate Kinetic Storage platform delivers the new paradigm necessary to enable us collectively, as an industry, not only to meet this mandate but to do so optimally and in the most cost-efficient manner required.


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Since I found photography two and a half years ago I have learned different things which I would like to share with you today. These lessons have made me richer and I hope that you will find them refreshing and inspiring on your journey with the camera, too.
1. Never do photography to become a rock-star.
2. Enjoy what you are shooting.
3. Prepare well for your shooting, realizing that your battery isn't charge when you're setting up for that sunrise shoot is too late!
4. Always take one warm garment more than you actually need with you
5. Pay attention to your thoughts and emotions while you are shooting
6. Set goals you can achieve
7. Write tips about photography, because writing is also learning
8. Never go shooting without a tripod
9. Be pleased with the little successes
10. Build relationships with potential photo buddies
11. Watch the place you want to shoot first with your heart… and then with the camera
12. Always stay calm
13. Know that you tend to overestimate yourself
14. Perspective is the killer
15. Dedicate yourself to photography, but never browbeat yourself too much
16. Take part in a photography community
17. Keep your camera clean
18. Never compare yourself to others in a better or worse context
19. Find your own style of photography
20. Try to compose more and to hit the shutter less
21. Seek out and learn to accept critique on your images
22. Do something different to recover creativity
23. Get inspiration from the work of other photographers
24. Criticize honestly but respectfully
25. Get feedback from your lady
26. Don't copy other photographer's style
27. Be bold
28. Take care of the golden ratio
29. 10mm rocks!
30. Take self portraits
31. Read books about photography
32. To give a landscape photograph the extra boost, integrate a person (maybe yourself)
33. Every shooting situation is different than you expect
34. Pay attention to s-curves and lines
35. Always shoot in RAW
36. Keep your sensor clean, so you can save some work cleaning your image in post production
37. Discover the things you think are beautiful
38. It takes time to become a good photographer
39. The best equipment is that what you have now
40. You can't take photographs of everything
41. Break the rules of photography knowingly, but not your camera 😉
42. Pay attention to the different way that light falls on different parts of your scene
43. The eye moves to the point of contrast
44. Clouds increase the atmosphere of a landscape
45. Start a photoblog
46. Accept praise and say "thank you"
47. 'Nice Shot' is not a very useful comment to write
48. 'Amazing!' isn't useful either. Try to describe specifically what you like or don't like about an image.
49. You are not your camera
50. Ask a question at the end of your comment on a photo to get a ping-pong conversation with the photographer
51. Do a review of your archives on a regular basis, the longer you photograph – the more diamonds are hidden there
52. Always clarify what the eyecatcher (focal point) will be in your image
53. No image is better than a bad one
54. Everyone has to start little
55. Your opinion about photography is important!
56. Leave a funny but thoughtful comment
57. Speak about your experiences with your photo buddies
58. Limit your photograph to the substance
59. Participate in Photo contests
60. Post processing = Optimizing your image to the best result
61. Shoot exposure latitudes as often as possible
62. Use photomatix as seldom as possible, HDR's always have a synthetic flavor
63. Always remember what brought you to photography
64. Never shoot a person who doesn't want to be photographed – ask permission
65. Always turn arround, sometimes the better image is behind you
66. It's who's behind the camera, not the camera
67. Mistakes are allowed! The more mistakes you make, the more you learn!
68. If you have an idea and immediately you think : No, this is not going to work – Do it anyway. When in doubt – always shoot.
69. Understand and look to your histograms while shooting. It delivers very important information about your image
70. Know your camera, because searching the menu button in the night is time you don't want to waste
71. Shoot as often as possible
72. Believe in yourself
73. Don't be afraid of getting dirty
74. Pay attention to qualitiy in your image
75. Your photographs are a personal map of your psyche
76. Re-check your ISO-Settings. It's aweful to detect the wrong settings on your screen.
77. Be thankful for long and thoughtful comments on your images
78. Never trust your LCD. Normally it is brighter and sharper as the original image.
79. Provide for enough disc space, because it's cheap and you will need it.
80. Learn to enjoy beautful moments when you don't have a camera with you.
81. Always arrive at least half an hour earlier before sunrise / sundown, composing in a hurry is a bad thing.
82. Try to amplify your mental and physical limits. Takes some extra shots when you think "it's enough"
83. Pay attention to structures in the sky and wait until they fit into structures in the foreground
84. Visit the same place as often as possible. Light never shows the same mountain.
85. Print your images in big size. You will love it.
86. Calibrate your monitor. Working with a monitor that is not accurate is like being together with someone you can't trust. It always ends badly.
87. Don't think about what others may say about your image. If you like it, it's worth publishing.
88. Never address reproaches to yourself. Learn from your mistakes and look forward, not backward.
89. Fight your laziness! Creativitiy comes after discipline.
90. Ask yourself : What do you want to express in your images ?
91. Always try to think outside the box, collect new ideas about photographs you could do and ask yourself : Why not?
92. Search for a mentor.
93. Photography is never a waste of time.
94. Every community has it's downsides. Don't leave it out of an emotional response.
95. There will always be people who will not like what you are doing.
96. Henri Cartier-Bresson was right when he said that "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
97. A better camera doesn't guarantee better images.
98. Always have printing in mind when you postprocess your images.
99. Photography is fair: You gain publicity with the quality of your images. Unless the images are stolen, there is no way of cheating yourself higher.
100. Write a 100 things list
Do you have learned something that I didn't mention? I would be glad if you let me know it as a comment, so I can learn from you!
Update: Martin has added 20 More Lessons that He's Learned About Photography here.
I am in the beginning of the beginner's stage. Learning on my advance point and shoot camera at the moment. My goal is do photo shoot of my wife with this camera and only after she is satisfied with it will go and get a DSLR. This is going to help me so much. I think the most important one in the list is the 100th.
I am in love with this website. I have been spending atleast 4 hours a day on this website right now.
Do you have a spam issue on this web site; I also am a blogger, and I was asking yourself your situation; weve developed some great techniques and we are searching to swap options with other folks, be positive to fire me an e-mail if serious.
You are amazing mate! Thank you for encouraging beginners like me... Now I'm confident that the best pictures are soon to be taken... ^_^
This is a great list, it really motivates me. I am a beginner and I believe this list could help me moving forward with my works. Thank you so much for sharing....:)
I love photography and i love this list. Almost everything on here is a completely useful tip for photographers, and for pretty much anybody who loves the visual arts. I can tell you have a lot of experience so thank you for sharing your knowledge
Wonderful list Darren. I've always wondered how a photographer started and how the journey is like to become a "photographer". Your points show that I have a LOT more road to cover.
I've tweeted this article to let more people know how photography is like.
One day I will have my 100 list of things I learned... Starting to write them down now.. :)
Thank you so much....is two months from now got my first dslr and by searching on the web for tutorials and tips is very helpfull for what im wanted to do.i bought my 50mm ais lens and now im learning a full manual shot..
What is a photo log? is it like a portfolio? and thank you this is so helpful i love photography and i'm just going to college so it all new and scary but this has put things into perspective.
You page is my HOME PAGE now! :)
Great, Thnx a lot for sharing.
thank you very much for sharing your list to us....as a novice in this venture it will of great help. more power to you !!!!
Great list!
I was particularly impressed by "Your photographs are a personal map of your psyche". Fits perfectly in what I value the most from photography: using your camera to grasp (and share!) what you see and what it makes you feel.
wow! great list! I love #39. Thanks for this :)
Thank you for this article! I got bought my first DSLR yesterday, and although it all seems very daunting just now, I am also so excited to make use of the tips you have shared! I can tell i'm going to be on your site for hours. Thank you :) x
I have millions of thanks to you!! i been sitting in here for 4 hrs reading your articles so thanks so so much!
i'm only just starting.. picking up a nikon D5100 tonight after loads of fishing for knowledge and video tutorials online. i'm soo excited, and you're list has only heightened it for me! can't wait for my 10,001st photo!!! thank you xxx
#53. No image is better than a bad one.
#96. Henri Cartier-Bresson was right when he said that "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
Good stuff. I just bought an entry level DSLR and am loving the site so far - lots of good information. Trying to not be overwhelmed by the equipment and stick to what started me down the path of shooting with my camera phone!
Thank you! You've reawakened confidence I thought I had lost. I'm not able to get a digital camera right now, but, I still really enjoy my film work...from straight shooting to Lomography. Thank you for all of the time and effort you put into this post, it is greatly appreciated.
b/b )O(
great list, this is perfect for a person new to photography to read
Engagement Photography Ideas
Hi, Darren,
I am a beginner. And all I can say, is BRAVO to you. This is such a very excellent and informative site. I've learned instantly and is now a million times more eager to learn from you.
Keep up and cheers!
Here's one I've noticed, You don't need an idea or vision before you go shooting. I often just go out with a wide range arsenal (10-250mm obs) and start walking towards the horizon.
In all honesty, best pictures I've taken have been in situations where one would not expect to fins a "codac moment" so I never leave home without my camera, ever, not even to grocery store wich is about 100m away from my home.
Very though full. I liked this comment the most: "Fight your laziness ! Creativitiy comes after discipline"
Thanks for sharing.
This tutorial is great..Am a beginner and want to learn the principles and theories of photography...Thanks for this info....Anyone looking for whom to tutor..Am available, lets do it onliine...email@example.com
I reposted this in my fb account. I also indicated your site so my friends can see and read..=)
i like this list very very much i'll share it :)
i liked point 87 and 68
I love this! It is so hones, straight from the heart and makes you learn so many important lessons. Thank you so much for sharing it :)
Great insights! I particularly love this statement "Fight your laziness! Creativity comes after discipline."
That was very helpful and I hope to make a 100 list myself! :)
You 100 list is very useful, I am a newbie in this profession and the things I've read really helps me a lot . I like your # 39 the one that says that" the best equipment is the one you got". I have a 50d and really love it. From now on I will shoot always with out hesitation. Big thanks.
Thanks for the list..it's really open my mind..
Thanks for this list!
It really has helped open up my mind to a lot of things I never even thought about before picking up my camera!
I really like all 100 of the things on the list!
Thanks :)
I've learned that the harshest critic likely holds near and dear to him a photo which if it belonged to someone else would be "just a snapshot with no regard to composition" (and maybe focus) because it's a photo of someone he loves or it reminds him of a special time.
I'M new here . I must say, that, at the moment that I red this fascinating list, I couldn't resist the energy pumping inside of me telling me to go outside and take some pictures . Thanks for sharing your experiences .
I, like most people, have always thought that to praise a piece of work, words like "AMAZING", "AWESOME", "STUPENDOUS", works great. May be, I have never given it a thought as to why I liked or disliked a particular image. Thank you! I will work hard for 10000++ image.. :)
Shoot first with your heart and then with the camera was the best . Thanks for sharing this, Appreciated !
101 watch the weather forecast especially in tropical country
I am not a photographer and the only thing I know when I see a photo, is focused or unfocused. But I have noticed I stare longer at some photos.
LOVED the list.
Gotta disagree with 64. If you can get away with it.... these make wonderfully intense, dramatic photographs. :)
thx ! this article really uplifted my spirit . i feel down a few days ago about my pics, now i feel much better.
luv the list and i always remember u gotta have fun!!!!
i was really depressed with my small digi cam but ur list really inspired me to carry on with it i am 16 n i learn as evry time i touch my camera n still learning
the the way the front gets very small after no.35 its very hard to read
Hi, i would say these 100 points has really given me an inspiration to go ahead. :-)
I am really a biginer in DSLR world.....and tried lot of things with my Camera but was disappointed BUT now i am ready again with all new spirits.... :-)
Thanks again.
This is a great list. My favourite happens to be #29 - it's definitely a lens that gets left out a lot with the photographers I know personally. I can't get enough of it!
My best advice would be to slow down and look. I see so many people (myself included sometimes) get so excited by pretty things or people that they grab camera, apply burst mode and don't stop shooting until their card runs out of space. You will take some good photographs this way, eventually. But you'll have to sort through some 560 'chaff' shots first! Find the light. Then find the angle. Then imagine the format - portrait, landscape, square, vignette etc. Then check your camera settings. Then take the photograph.
Yes, there are plenty of photographs rushing past you and escaping. Life moves fast. But I'd rather capture one perfect moment than 100 sub-par ones.
well....i feel you could make the observer see exactly what you're trying to show ...including the minute aspects of the picture...you've done a gr8 job
I read this list, pausing as necessary for reflection or a smile. I, as so many others, am just starting out, and appreciate the words of another artist who feels as I do, reassuring my uncertainty and encouraging what others do not always understand. It's a different world, that of photography, and those who do not share our passion cannot appreciate how much it means to encounter others who do. So, thank you, for your inspiration, encouragement, and wisdom....and I especially agree with paying attention to your thoughts and emotions, and am quite fond of watching with my heart before shooting with the camera.
Love it ..can relate to some of the things you said...Thanks for sharing ur learning
I really enjoyed the tips, and some things i knew others were new to me. I am definitly a begginner and it will take some time before i actually catch on to all the things Photography can show me, Thanks again
The BEST advice I ever took , long ago, was carry a camera with you ALL the time. I got a pic one morning of deer---one buck and 11 does, after 2 snaps, poof, they all ran off. I would NEVER get that again. It is still amazing to me I got it. You can see 10 doe and the tail of 1. AWESOME!!!!! Have given it as gifts over the years, ppl love it!
Thanks for sharing this great list with us. As I've grown as a photographer I have found that #20 has been critical to taking better and better photographs. It also means less time in post!!!
LOL, i am still laughing about the 27 point: Be Bold. I love bold guys!!!! Maybe i will give a try on shooting only bold mens, it could turn out to be very interesting....
What's RAW?
I read through the comments as if I was listening to an experienced photographer's wisdom with eyes closed:) Phew......it was great:) I am getting a good feeling after reading the list! Thank You Martin for jotting down your experience in the 100 points and thanks Darren for adding one more gem(this article) to the bunch(of existing articles in DPS) !!! I'll probably start collating for my 'Best 10 list':)
Great insights. -Dave Z
The best equipment is that what you have now...
really love that words.. its really works on me :)
18. Never compare yourself to others in a better or worse context
39. The best equipment is that what you have now
I think these are the best, especially for beginners! Thank you for this article, it was really inspiring <3
Thanks a lot, I'm new here and I'm learning photography by myself
I've found a lot of useful info here
and this list of 100 things has encouraged me even more to keep on shooting
thanks again!!
Thanks for sharing! This was a really usefull article. I found funny that I could remember me learning some of the tips, and now I understand I have a long way to go. What I love about photography is that is very fun to learn and, at the same time, it's not really frustrating, it's something relaxed, and it helps me express things I cannot when drawing or writting. As an amateur photographer, anyway, I cannot express much :P Thanks a lot!
This is my first shot at actually reading up on photography. I own an old Kodak Easyshare V603 and that is what I carry with me everywhere. I always liked to take pictures but once I posted some on Facebook, I started getting comments on them. I donot think I would get a better camera in the future. I love taking pictures and I think that is what mattes. I love your article and will bookmark it and read it over and over from now on. Thank you.
thanx for the 100 tips for beginner, this also inspired me even more o become a photography myself.
I am beginner to photography...I feel lucky to came across your blog. There's lot to learn from it from beginners point of view and also to experts. I appreciate your effort coming up with these pointers.
belos comentarios sao feitos aqui, por pessoas que vivem diariamente lidando com equipamentos de fotografias... e que tem bons conhecimentos da materia. depois de possuir um sony alpha 100 que me deu grandes alegrias,agora estou com uma nikon d 40 ainda em fase de testes conparativos e confesso que os resultados sao promissores, e graças as dicas que tenho recebido aqui, meu desenpenho como fotografo tem sido uma evoluçao bastante interesante nos novos conhecimetos e no dominio da fotografia......agradeço a este site a melhoria de minha experiencia. grato.
Thanks very much for the useful tips. They will help me very much in finding my own style, learn many things from my mistakes and stop trying to coppy better photografers than myself while I will still trying to learn a lot from them.
In my opinion this list should be the first thing to read before anyone starting to learn more about photography.
My english are not so good yet so sory If what im writting above its somewhat difficult to read and understand :)
Thank you so much I have found all your posts so helpful!
I am planning to give photography a serious thought.
..will definitely use these tips to improve upon my skills..
Thanks a lot!
Thank you very much for these. I didn't even realise I was making most of these mistakes until I read them on this list.
The first quote came to mind when I was at a church one Sunday and an older lady came up to me and asked: You take photographs, right? Well, you might think: what's wrong with the question?... well the thing is, in any language, there is a formal way of asking someone something. For example, in Germany, if I greeted my friend, I would say: Hallo meine freunde! If it were a person that I didn't know or older than me, then i'd say: Wer kommen Sie? (sorry for my bad German, I'm two years out of H.S. and trying to remember a good example). Anyways, I was surprised. Another good example to illustrate this quote. My older brother bought a 1994 Toyota Supra. When he came into America's Tire Co. to look for some wheels, all the people there called him "Sir" and "Mister". The same day he came on an older 1988 Honda Accord, they acted as if he wasn't there.
The second quote came after I was taking many candid shots and people started calling me a sniper. So that's how the quotes were born.
I encourage you to make your own quotes, why use someone else's, when you can use yours? =)
That list - is an eye opener for some. A quarter of this list - i already knew myself, because I learned on my own pretty much. I bought my camera from my uncle and he only showed me a few things, the rest i learned on my own. Still learning. I have an older camera, Nikon D1x (http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/0102/nikon/d1x-big.jpg).
I made up two quotes:
1. Having a professional camera, doesn't make you a professional photographer.
2. Being a photographer is like being a sniper: you have to wait for the perfect moment to shoot.
Thank you so much. this blog is very useful for me. :)
que bom, hoje descobri que é inportante ler sobre fotografia digital, vendo as 100 sugestoes aqui , e ja aprendi muito confesso. eu aprendi tudo de fotos nos bons tempos do preto e branco. mas acopnhando o progresso tecnologico da fotografia, entrtei na era digital com uma camera sony alpha 100... e com certeza vou me aprimorar com as dica e enssinamentos daqui.
Thank you so much for the list. I only really started like 2 days ago but i'm in love. The list helped refine the direction i want to take.
Any solid object is better than no tripod.
Hi all.
Im a BIGINNER!!!
I have a Nikon D60 Camera, and have recenty purchased a SB600 Speedlight.
Can anyone give me some pointers on using this flash?
I would appreciated any comments.
Thank you for sharing your list.
I've found that the pics I've taken without putting much effort into them, are the ones people like the best. Strange, isn't it?
Love the list, except you need to update #25, what if you don't have a lady but have a man? How about "partner" ;-)
thanks for the inspiration!
After I finished reading this I wanted to go out and take pictures!!
Thx! :P
Thank you for sharing this,
I have learned a lot from this.
Thank you so much
Hi Everyone, Im from South Africa
WOW, such a great site!
Im also new to this game! (Coz its sooooooooo much fun)
Just got my studio up and running (Also from home, luckily I have the space) Also very lucky to find really good condition, second hand studio lights.
Cant wait to get going with this site, joining in the weekly assignments!!
Must just work out now, how to post some of my Pics (The ones I think are good and love)
Also, been fiddling around with photoshop - love doing the layer photography.
Are there any South Africans here on this site.? Would love to hear from you
Will defenatly be scanning this site.... probably all the time now...
Thanks again for a great 1st step to photography!
#101: NEVER ASSUME before formatting or deleting memory card. Accident once causes lake of tear. Your tear.
#102: Backup, backup, backup. BACKUP TILL YOU DROP.
You need only ONE bad luck to create Ocean of tear.
Your tear.
everything you wrote helped me understand some things . i know one thing 4 sure...I want to become a good photographer ....=D
this is a great list... one question though: Why is perspective a Killer? can you explain this one?
RE: 14. Perspective is the killer
I like #97 because I'm only 15 ,so I can't afford a digital SLR, I can't even afford my own digital camera at the moment, but I can still take some really great shots with my mums camera (which is practically mine now, she never uses it so I just take it with me everywhere XD)
AND number #92 is a good one for everyone to take into account. My photography teacher is both a teacher and a mentor to me, he has taught me so many things that I take into account whenever I go out to take some photos.
Overall, I learnt alot from reading this, thanks for sharing it with everyone.
Hope you don't mind, I placed a link of this page in my website. I wanted to share it with my other photography buddies. I'll write my own 100 things soon. Really inspiring! :)
Great thoughts and lessons in this!
I'd suggest adding
"Always be open to learn"
Photography always in manual mode, there is no better way to learn that you are the photographer and not the machine.
Omg thanks so much this really helped
this also inspired me even more o become a photography myself.
Thank you so much!
101- Be Patient
102- Shoot the same view from different angles
103- make sure ur shadow isn't in ur canvas when the sun is in ur back
104- Know the law for photography in public according to ur country/area
105- Never let someone accompany u if u r going for a landscape, Unless he/she is into photography (they gonna get bored)
Thanks a lot for the 100 tip and these are some of my points that i have learned. i'm still a beginner
i hope mine was useful too ..
wow my name is mikayla and im 12 yrs old i like takin photos exspeacily of my friends and family sometimes mii pets as well i like takin photos off land scape as well
wow im only 12 and i love photgraphy i hope 2 be a famus photographer
i like takeing pics of natural things like animals, flowers and landscape!!!
from molly
i would like critque on my photos. especially the rodeo shots. i have a hard time shotting fat enough with the low light fast action of a rodeo.
Valuable post indeed! thanks for translating and posting it!
like me,any newbie photographer would relate to each and every point in the 100 list, some of which me have experinced by now, and many more which am sure of learning it on the journey ahead!
and guess i'd make a big list of my own soon!
#68. If you have an idea and immediately you think : No, this is not going to work - Do it anyway. When in doubt - always shoot.// So ture!!! and this appplies every other decison in life too...when we have an idea, we need to believe in ourselves and take the stride before we start doubting our abilities!
Interesting read! Really interesting! Just hope I can remember it all when it matters most.
what a great post. your words were really thoughtfull and inspiring.. i feel more confident and ready to go out and take some shots..
thank you for sharing!
Thanks this really helped me out!!! i'm a beginner, n didn't kno where 2 start!!!
As a beginner you're probably best off getting one or two lenses of a more modest focal length range and that are equipped with image stabilization for low-light shooting.
I personally use most of a time a 18-70 mm lens. At 18 mm I can take a decent landscape shot and zooming in at 70 mm, I can "feel the frame" with my subject ( for portraits and close-ups). It's a light lens and it's easy to carry.
I wouldn't recommend a 17-200 mm , 28-300mm lens etc., event though it covers such a huge focal length range.
The lenses tend to be fairly big and heavy, they are pretty slow, with small maximum apertures.
They also tend to have a lot of distortion at the maximum length and since they're optically so slow you'll probably also find that any telephoto photos you take will be badly blurred unless you use a tripod or flash.
In my opinion, a good starter kit is something like the Nikon D80 KIT with 18-55mm lens and 55-200mm lens.
No matter what anybody tells you now, "that one lens is all you need and you will never need to buy another one", that's not true.
Buy a decent lens for the start and discover what your style is (landscapes, close-ups, portraits, night shots) and then you might want to upgrade and invest in some better lenses, a wide angle, a telephoto one.
Think at your budget and how important photography is in your life (how much you want to invest now and in the future).
i like that u said "be bold" . it s gonna be more fun :) i like this website.but now can someone tell me wt is the best first len in your life and y?
just a kid
anytime Phil
I wish I had more time for myself to learn more too.
Thank you very much Antonia.
I've learned a lot from 100 things by Martin, and your reply as well. They're all really helpful.
Have more nice shots.
Another thing that might help:
Use the 10mm lens on landscapes, the horizon will look endless
DON'T use it on portraits (unless you want to have some fun),because it will the futures of the person will be very pronounced
Spherize effect:
@ Phil
#29 10mm rocks!
a 10 mm lens is a super-wide lens that help you capture "so much in a shot" without the need to go later in Photoshop or other program and stitch 3 or 4 pictures together ("making puzzle"), to get that one picture that you want.
Just think at capturing the whole Colosseum from Italy in just ONE shot and not to loose any detail. (from the same spot you take that picture, with a normal lens, you would probably get just a quarter from the Colosseum and if you go far away from it, from where you can capture it in one shot, you will lose details and quality)
Also, at a really wide angle your picture will start to distort at the ends, but you can also play with that and get very nice effects of sphere.
Hope that helps
Could you explain what #29 (10mm rocks!) mean? Thanks in advance.
I loved the list and that is so true. I bought my Olympus Camedia at ebay and it was a discontinued model. But, it had a lot of nice features and I have learned a lot from that camera. The first pictures, I was so proud of as I thought they were good. Now looking back at those early pictures, I have to ask, why was I so proud of them? I am still proud of them as they were the springboard to what I do today.
I found that if you look around your immediate environment, photo opportunities are all around you. Your house is a treasure trove and so is your garden or downtown. Inspiration can come anywhere,
berk : Try, try & Try ;)
thank you for this great sharing.
how did you learned all of these things?
This list is excellent, but I'm not sure I get this one. If it means what I think it does, then I don't like it:
53. No image is better than a bad one
I think shooting and making mistakes is better than not shooting and missing something great, so in my opinion even a bad image is better than no image.
I am not supposed to do that but ..
Honestly, I really like your list and can't wait to get my new camera and go out now.
Thanks for sharing.:] especially your tutorials. they helped me.. ALOT. im still a beginner and this list made me realize things. haha. anyway, thank you very much.:] you're such a big help!:D
Ya I agree that you should not be afraid to look silly. As a photographer you must oevrcome your shyness and you must always be open to perform an overt act in shooting.
The 100 tips is like an outline of a good photography book. Thank you for the essential knowledge.
Thanks for sharing..that's a lot of information n tips that i've learn..feel free to commnent my picture..i need some support to do better in photography..thanks!
i chatted with one of my friends, she was jealous by her friend that has a better camera, and she thought that her friend's photos were better than hers because her friend got a better camera. well after i read this, i think i should give her some advice that, what you were saying about "A better camera doesn't guarantee better images." and specially "It's who's behind the camera, not the camera".
and for my self, this 100things really helped me a lot in most of every aspects in photography. thanks for the enlightment :)
It's like a prayer that a photographer should chant every day...Thanks for the tips!
Thank you very much. Your list like inspiration. Especially very usefull for me is advise number 89, yeah.
I just started photography 4-5 months ago, and it's rrly amazing. :) I used to compare my photographs w my other friends, and I end up feeling terrible after doing that. Now I know. :) Thanks a lot!
96. Henri Cartier-Bresson was right when he said that "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.â€
Thanks for this great article!
I have learnt something I'd like to share: It's ok to not have a tripod with you, one can use the 1600 or 3200 iso setting on some cameras: you'll get great photos. Photos are not always about the maximum definition.
Have a play with long exposures
and: Tag and describe your photos as soon as you are back home, if you're leaving it for longer, you'll never do it, or you'll forget things
It's curious, but one day (not day, but night :) ) I took the pen and started to write some notes about photography and photo taking. There were some notes like mentioned ones.
It was inconscient. That day my mood was gleeful after long months of frustrating. I've got good photos of trip and family relying only to emotions and basic photography skills that stay with me from school. I was experimenting. Some photos I edited to B&W.
That day was like epoch in my photography practice. I can take great photos without thinking of megapixels and lenses!
The photos were not of highest quality as for the glossy magazines but emotional impact was great! And not for me but for all my relatives.
For me the most important is the following tips:
"Pay attention to your thoughts and emotions while you are shooting" & "It's not the camera, man!"
Great list, thanks for taking the time to write & share it. Maybe you could add "subscribe to a daily photography lesson like DPS"! I don't even know how many articles I've read so far, I think of things I've learned recently more when I'm shooting than before. Thanks again!
I'm really glad I stumbled on to this page. I'm currently having a weird moment with photography, and reading this just proves so many things i've always believed in; but i'm just too scared and lazy to do something about it.
" Fight your laziness ! Creativitiy comes after discipline."
That sentence is just made for me.
Thank you for sharing...and i will definitly keep reading.
Thank you very much for this list, it is actually kind of a backbone, an inspirational backbone, ;o)
Made me think alot and took some pressure off on myself. Great tips and very useful information. Makes me appreciate the camera and skills I have.
Helpful and inspiring tips. Hope that I can give the same advice in the future.
The 'no image is better than a bad image' comment can be read two ways.
'it is better to not take an image than to take a bad image'
'there is no picture better than a bad picture'.
WOW That's Really Awsome...
That Make Me Love Photographing More Than AnyTime Before...
Thank You So Much...
Great tips!
great tips... am sure other visitors will appreciate it too! keep on posting such tips and lessons...
I love this list, but I have a couple comments -
Get feedback from your lady? Sorry, but I AM the lady!
And sometimes I feel like there is conflicting suggestions. On one hand you state "no image is better than a bad image", but on the other hand you state "Shoot as much as possible, shoot as often as possible and if in doubt, shoot anyway." Isn't that a contradiction? Or maybe I am misunderstanding it.
But other than that, GREAT list!!!!!
re: point number 64; that's it, the shotgun stays at home from now on!
Love the list, love DPS.
Love and light.
'Learn from your mistakes and look forward, not backward.'
I'm a poet's wife and we love lists. This is great. It's getting me thinking - always a good thing.
Can you say how one justifies:
"53. No image is better than a bad one"
"67. Mistakes are allowed! The more mistakes you make, the more you learn!"?
I guess I'm just pondering #53. I might modify it to say not to post/share "bad" images. But that might not be it either as sometimes we are our worst critics and what we think is a bad image might be great in actuality.
Just some thoughts.
Thanks very much! I am just tinkering with the idea of taking my love of taking photos more seriously and investing in a DSLR. Your very monivating! If i can add anything its take photos as a stress relief!! I find if i go out with the intention of making myself feel better instead of trying to take a good shot, i take more emotional photos with less effort and less pressure on myself.
Learn how to spell
There are so many things I could do to improve myself. Time to get disciplined. :)
love the list!!! as i am bloody beginner, i'll use that as mantra, too;) we actualy need things like that to latch onto sth., anything! thank you!
today, i learned something to add:
take your camera everywhere and everytime with you!
i add one: "sleep with NO model."
Loved your list. It stokes the fires of the mind. Here's mine:
Let your soul flow through your camera; it will bring you extraordinary photographs.
Hello! i'd really love this post. To be a photographer is ones of the most amazing experiences of my life. Always you learn something new and also you can use it for imagenes. I'd thik im going to writte the number 100.
See ya around!
Thanks for sharing your 100 tips with us.
Don't be selfish and lazy about telling and explaining someone things that you know- have learned or heard from somewhere.
The knowledge and information must circulate and go from one to another. That's the way how you have learned something.
One thing I think is that perspective and use of different focal lengths is extremely important in photography. Getting a new 55-200 lens recently really reinforced this with me. I've always been more of a wide angle person and going out shooting with just the telephoto really makes you work in a different way and makes you aware of your focal length and how to use it most effectively.
Thank for the great list. Though I'm hopelessly addicted to HDR, your point is well taken (#62). There are so many great points here that I'll need to periodically review them to keep them fresh in my mind. Thanks so much!
Thanks for the lovely tips. I will remember #85. I havent been bold enough to yet.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting, appreciate it.
It really encourages a beginner who is interested in it..
A great list, worthy of revisiting from time to time!
That was great- worthy of a link from my blog.
I took up all these photographers the other day into the San Juan Mnts in Colorado, the leader was a fellow name Jim Stienberg from Steamboat colo, I showed him my Cheezy Fuji 3800 finepix, but I told him I have always been happy with the results, he told me that a Camera is nothing but a box, it is who operates the box that creates a fine photo. I thought that was cool, in other words if you can't afford state of the art, don't let that hold you back, take photos anyway.
Thank's Martin:
20. Great, will be best form me to learn these in non digital times.
28. "take care of the golden ratio" My english is not enought for understand these. Can any one explain it please?
29. also these one.
I would like to ad something like: think as an old sniper, you don't take photos you hunt photos, think what, when, why.
Is it posible to make a printable version of the list?
As a professional photographer I have even learnt a thing or two from your list. Good work.
thanks! going to write my list hope that I'll be able to reach at least 20 things list :)
This is a great list. There are so many things on there that I need to remind myself of on a regular basis.
Really great list. Inspried me to get the creative juices flowing and start recordig my own list of key learings.
What a great list - I'm keeping it handy. Thanks so much.
A great list! I have learned so much in just reading your 100 list. Thank you for sharing!
i was just revising your points and thn suddenly i realized that point no. 96 is changed with time
Henri Cartier-Bresson was right when he said that "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.â€
but because with digital age photographers don't think that much while taking pictures as film photographers used to think. So i think now it should be like your first 30,000 photographs are your worst.That was said in film age and must be for film age photographers.. ;)
i read all hundread . i like all of them .
it is very helpful to newcomer like me .
Your 100 things mentioned are very useful for the ameture photographers like me. Thank you very much for this great list.
Oh, great idea! Thanks for sharing. And I think that it is a good exercise for each photographer and learner in any other sphere. It is also a kind of sum-up of everything that we know. Before such a sum-up there is a 'mess' in our heads, while our knowledges should be structurised to be used effeciently. Thanks great!
"Photography, I feel, is on of the best learning processes one can make use of throughout our lives provided we always, keep our eyes and mind open to the ever changing environment".
A lot of the tips mentioned above will definetly help us to do so - To identify and grab it at the right time, cause the same opportunity will never come again.
wow! What a good advice dto me !
Thanks for sharing with us.
Thank you. Hope it will help me in my journey. Much appreciated.
great article. maybe another point is serendipity happens. We were driving up a mountain to get a view. a storm moved in and it had the most wonderful light patterns. pure coincidence but great oppertunity. be aware.
I just happened to stumble onto this and it is dead on. Thanks
haha sorry - had to say it.
Wonderful list, it really helped. I will visitin it through my photography learn curve :)
great list!
72. Believe in yourself
I think sometimes I question how far I should go with my photography.Sometimes it can be so intimidating when I see the awesome and creative art that others share.
For the insecure folks like myself, feedback is critcal to our growth, but deep down applying #72 is probably more sobering :)Working on that!
Well said. These really resonate with me and are things you don't always hear a lot about… Again, thanks for sharing.
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thanx a lot for giving such valuable tips......
i think all are really important for a photographer
i really liked it
once again thanx a lot
It sounds like common sense, but #76 "Re-check your ISO-Settings. It's aweful to detect the wrong settings on your screen" got me good one day. I'm pretty new to SLR photography - I understand the concepts, but having so many settings to think about made it easy to forget that I had been trying different ISO settings the week before. I ended up getting some great nature shots only to realize I had been shooting at ISO 1600 all day! The good thing is that I'll remeber to check it from now on - nothing like learning from experience...too bad I didn't see this list before then. :)
I can't believe you left out the most common tip; "Use the rule of thirds, when composing."
Cool list - tx :) My favorite: "80. Learn to enjoy beautiful moments when you don't have a camera with you" No regrets.
Some of them are some of the thinks realised by my own, some are new for me that I have to pay attention to improve my photography
thanks for share...
Some of the best advices I found here:
this list ROCks it realy hleped me when thinking about taking a picture but about the mentor i'm only 15 and i live in Egypt i don't know any professional photographers or that stuff my only mentor is the DPS please if u have any advice for me ??
@ Jeff Krieger : I understand your problem ! I think this is a lifelong process of learning ..I am doing photography since 2 1/2 years. Finding a mentor ? Check out photographers you admire and just ask them via email. It might cost you something, but it's worth. And if not, great !
@ Os Sutrisno : Hehe, so true ;)
@ Bilka : Thanks much for your long reply. I have lot's of respect of your long experience ! Do you have any photographs online ! I would be glad to see them !
@ Anthea : Rock on !
@ Augustin : Thanks ! I would love to hear your experiences ! Do you have any website or something ?
Some part i already new. And i do fulfil a part of i alredy knew. Though there are a lot of useful stuff.
89. Fight your laziness ! Creativitiy comes after discipline
68. If you have an idea and immediately you think : No, this is not going to work - Do it anyway. When in doubt - always shoot.
These two are really inspiring (also true ). these were the ones I identefy myself more :|
Martin sure has a lot of experience
Can't wait to see what experience has for me
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.â€
That means - with my digital camera - I have around 5000 more to go then, this is promising for me!
These tips are excellent, than you for sharing them.
I especially like "Always turn around, sometimes the better image is behind you"
BTW thank you for adding my 'Elephant in a Tree' photo to your Flickr favourites.
Fine list.
I have been involved in some sort of photography for 40 years--Professional for 18 of those 40 years. Your list is inspiring. I wish I had read it when I began my interest in photography. It might have eased some of those difficult battles we all have with our internal creative "devils.â€
Your statement about better equipment not making one a better photographer is spot-on. The best equipment one can have is what is between their ears and in their chest—Their brain and their heart. Some of my favorite images came from exposing film through a pinhole punched in a milk carton painted black. You can't get any simpler than that. It forces one to think and to craft an image instead of simply taking pictures.
I learn something every day and every time I pick up my camera. Your list opened my eyes and refreshed my creativity. I applaud you for such profound statements after only two and one half years of involvement in the photographic arts. It makes this old shooter proud to see this level of excellence in the next generation of photographers.
Fiat Lux!
My mom is old school. Kodak university in Germany in the 60's. her advise always was, find a camera that feels right in your hands, a scene that feels right your eye, and make people pose in ways that feels wrong to their natural posture.
Great stuff!
Getting feedback from the lady is good stuff. Cold heartless feedback... *cry*
I like number 73... it goes well with something I subscribe to... "Don't be afraid to look silly" because at least if you look silly with confidence, people think you know what you're doing.
Ups, Its break rule #48 :)
The list is so helpful, I hope I can write another 100 things list.
Great list! Thank you for sharing!
So true to enjoy what you are shooting and love the possibility of what you might have taken.
So many things to photograph, so little time.
Thanks for translating and sharing this awesome list. Beginners like me can truly appreciate this list. I always have to remember #54 - "Everyone has to start little" and as my skills progress, I have to keep in mind #96. I guess sometimes, we are our own harshest critic.
Great tips!
Great Tips!! I definitely agree with getting a mentor. I'm 16 and I've been in photography for about 6 months, and have had 2 mentors (a friend who is a wedding photography and another friend who has his own business) since the very beginning. Learned soo much from them!
Looks like everyone can relate to the comparison game tips. I was actually pretty depressed this past weekend as I felt very 'less than avg' with my pics. I've only had a digital slr for a few months..but, of course, everyone wants to stand out. I'm learning to try to take my pics for me and not so much so others will go "Wow, you're so good!". Besides, I am just capturing what God has already created Himself.
How long have you been shooting? Any tips on finding a mentor?
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@feli : Oh yes, I know that from my own experience. But knowing yourself in this is the first step out ;).
@ Adam : Oh, yes, that's true (and wonderful, isn't it?)! Thanks for sharing !
@Brian : Thanks for your support, buddy ;)
@ Kent : One thing I really like about asking your lady is that she know's you best. My wife always gives me a honest suggestion about what she likes and what not. That can lift you to heaven or bring you back to earth ;)
@ Rebecca : Absolutely ! I think a manual is always a good thing to have with - and it doesn't take too much place in your bag.
@ Andre : ;)
@ Jeremy : How long are you into photography now ?
Well I'm sure doing #30!
This is really great. Some of these are bang on!
I agree with #65 a lot. I find that often my better pictures come from photographing the 'wrong' thing.
One thing I have learned is to take some time every so often (a least few times a month) to go find things to shoot, instead of just waiting for an opportunity (such as a trip somewhere) to come.
Great list. Especially nr 53. No image is better than a bad one is one i definitely have to think about when going through my archives of thousands of photographs.
i will use your text as a mantra! thank you!
I like 97 also :) it makes so much sense!
wow big list :D and a good one too.
I like 97 :P
I need to do #92 as well. I'd add "Keep your camera's manual in the bag." You never know when you'll need to do one of the "I forgot what button" functions. (Like mirror lock?)
I think #25. Get feedback from your lady - is really helpful. I can always count on my wife to give me praise and give me a pickup when I am feeling uninspired.
Further, # 92. Search for a mentor. is a smart one. I need to do this.
Martin, you're a stud -- that list is HUGE! One of my favorites: "Don't think about what others may say about your image. If you like it, it's worth publishing." Definitely true. Art is subjective, don't ever let anybody tell you that your best isn't good enough -- because it is.
Great list. Really nice to read through with some little gems in there. I like the "eyes are drawn to contrast" - definitely a new tip to me.
I like lists like this, always remind me that others are also as interested in photography for more than just the images we ourselves take.
I really liked tip 96 about your first 10,000 images being the worst. It is so true, as a person who shoots 1,000+ photos a month, after the first year, my photos become a lot better.
I feel the overall message here is practice, practice, put time in, and practice some more.
Thank you for putting in the effort to write this list Darren.
I've learned that not every trip out, has to/will produce a masterpiece. Sometimes you can can spend hours shooting and produce nothing more than learning experiences.
Thank you for sharing.
As a beginner in photography I often compare myself to all the novice photographer in my Flickr group. That is one of my biggest downfall.
Again, Thank you for sharing your 100 list.


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A guest, C. Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, opens the floor, and a game of mental rugby begins. What was right 30 seconds ago, might now be wrong. There is no pride, no introspection, no hindsight. Floor reporters jab away at IPACs, which communicate through wireless antennas directly to a supervisor's screen. Above the wrangling, the supervisor somehow straightens the mess out real time.
There is no tomorrow in the workday of a floor trader at the New York Board of Trade — only now, and the rise and fall of adrenaline. Price discovery in the cotton pit at NYBOT is not for the faint of heart.
This is what visitors from the cotton industry saw July 16 in the trading pit and in a simulated trading session with floor traders the day before. The event was the Cotton Forum, held at NYBOT's facilities in the New York Mercantile Exchange Building, in lower Manhattan.
Danny Finch, a cotton producer from northeast Arkansas, said the simulated trading session gave him a perspective he had never seen before. "I do some trading with Pat McClatchy, (president of the Ag Market Network), but I had no clue about how cotton is actually traded."
Finch says that one weakness of his cotton farming operation is marketing. "Used to be you could look at the fundamentals, consumption and what we're growing, and if it was all a wash, we would have a pretty positive market. It's not like that anymore."
On the age of the traders, most of whom were still in their 20s, Finch noted, "I expected that. You can't do this when you get older."
Joe O'Neill, NYBOT's senior vice president, market development, said visitors to NYBOT's trading pits and mock sessions got a first hand look at the human side of price discovery. "The farmers send an order in and see it on the screen. When they come here where it actually takes place, they realize maybe it's not as easy as they thought.
"They can have a better understanding when things don't happen as quickly as they like, or they don't get the exact price they like, because they realize you have 100 Type A personalities standing around elbow to elbow screaming and hollering, and they all think they're first.
"We all compete everyday, but nobody has to compete the way that these guys do," O'Neill said. "Sometimes, it's who has a better voice or sharper elbows."
O'Neill also provided some insight into what moves the markets, especially from the technical side. "Charts are not mumbo, jumbo. Charts are indications. If a major cotton merchant sells a million bales of cotton to China, he's not going to call the media first to put it in a newspaper. He's going to come here and hedge. And all of a sudden the price starts moving.
"And when the price starts moving, somebody says it's because the speculators moved. When people don't know why the market moves, they blame the speculators. But the marketplace will tell you if something is going on before the news release will. Because these guys want to cover their positions before anyone knows what they've done."
O'Neill believes the move to trading agricultural futures on-line is still a long way off. "We see financial futures trading on-line, but the ags aren't quite ready for it.
"We rely on the locals here to provide liquidity," O'Neill explained. "Locals (floor traders) comprise about 45 percent of the volume. So every trade order that comes in, a local will take the other side of the trade. We need him. Without him, we would have a very illiquid market."
The trading floor in the NYMEX Building is the third floor NYBOT has traded on in three years. The first was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, during the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. That same day, several NYBOT staffers wasted little time getting a backup facility in Long Island City in Queens up and running, and the exchange was trading again by Sept. 17.
For the two years, the Long Island City site was NYBOT's home while a new trading floor and office complex was being constructed in the NYMEX Building, just a few hundred yards from the destroyed World Trade Center complex.
During the time when NYBOT was struggling to get back up to full speed, at least one foreign exchange indicated that it was going to try and transfer NYBOT's role as world price-setter in coffee, sugar, cocoa, cotton and orange juice, to its own financial center. It did not succeed.
"We are the only exchange in the world that lost its trading floor," O'Neill said. "We are the only exchange in the world that had a backup facility. We had to make some allowances, shorten some hours, but other than that, everything worked real well."
The 13,000 square foot facility at the NYMEX Building, "is a state of the art facility, communications are superb," O'Neill said. "Volume is up 41 percent since we moved here. So things have just been terrific. The guys like the facility."
The Cotton Forum also included the Cotton Roundtable held on the morning of July 16. A panel of cotton experts commented on cotton crop conditions in the United States and the world and discussed marketing strategies for cotton producers.
The events are sponsored by the Ag Market Network, New York Board of Trade, Certified FiberMax, Cotton Incorporated and Farm Press Publications.
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