Photography can be a daunting subject to learn, especially for those at the very beginning of the learning curve. Apertures, f-stops, depth of field, leading lines, negative space, ISO, modes, poses, panning, HDR, it just goes on and on. It can get a little frustrating at times I know.

But Photography.ca is about making learning easier, and, more importantly to me, making it more fun also! I don’t do too many things that I don’t find fun. And if it wasn’t fun at Photography.ca … I wouldn’t ‘do’ that either! If you’ve been listening to Marko’s podcasts then you’ll agree that they have a flavour, a feel, an energy, that just screams out “relax … sit down … enjoy! Eat me out of house and home just don’t kick my dog!!”  This is something I find lacking in most other podcasts on photography. I don’t fall asleep listening to Marko!

But are the forums here the same as most forums? Or do they also have a life of their own?
So many forums are uptight and so proper that you are afraid to slide into its cyber-lounge and kick your shoes off for fear of some forum cop running over, beating you with his forum truncheon, and reading you some forum riot act!

Well … polish up your funny bones, rub some moisturizer into your smiley muscles, and pull out your sense of  humour and stroke it awhile, cause here at Photography.ca we encourage some levity and joy. All we ask is that our members show respect to each other where appropriate and don’t stifle someone’s thread with jokes if they haven’t yet got the answers they seek.

So … Fun with Photography. There’s many ways to do this and, of course, these ways can vary person to person.

My ‘Mad Moment’ today will focus on simply looking for the levity in your photos and sharing those. You may have a photo that doesn’t really come up to any great technical level but it certainly has an amusement value.

The following thread links will show what I like to do with photos like this. Enjoy and we hope to see you join in and learn with us.

Forum Threads
Does my ass look big to you?

I Quit! Life’s Too Hard!

For Sale – Going Cheep

By Mad Aussie – Photography.ca blog contributor & forum member
www.astrovisual.com.au
www.astrovisualphotography.com.au
www.istockimages.com.au

Another week flashes by, and the Photography.ca forums have hustled and bustled along quite nicely as usual lately. Lots of new people joining in the fun and learning which is great to see!

My ‘Mad Moment’ this time around is on ‘Self Improvement’ and we have two threads in the forum (one by raiven and one by Greg Nuspel) that discuss this subject. Do you go out to shoot a masterpiece but return with a piece of something else? Do you feel like you are doing everything you can to create a work of art and only end up with something that rhymes with art? Yeh, we all do that sometimes.

So then, how do you go about lifting your photography skills? Are there regular ways and techniques one might apply to their weekly photography that might advance their skills? Can you produce better images on a more regular basis? Well, quite a few of the Photography.ca members seem to have various ideas on this subject so follow the two links below to read about how you can learn from them.

Even better, join the forums if you haven’t already and explore ALL the ways you can learn interactively with Marko and the Photography.ca members.

Forum Threads
Improving One’s Photography
Self Improvement Assignments

By Mad Aussie – Photography.ca blog contributor & forum member
www.astrovisual.com.au
www.astrovisualphotography.com.au
www.istockimages.com.au

A cool example of this, and my ‘moment’ for today is a thread in the forums which asks a question and the reason for why one answered as they did.

The question is ‘What Mode Do You Use?’

Many photographers ignore many of the options available to them and many of us are unaware of how some of these modes can benefit us in specific ways. Learning what modes people are using on their cameras and for what situations they employ these modes goes a long way to helping us understanding how we can benefit also.

To visit the thread of my ‘moment’ follow me HERE

Mad Aussie – Photography.ca blog contributor & forum member
www.astrovisual.com.au
www.astrovisualphotography.com.au
www.istockimages.com.au