Incompetence confessions

[Jakov Minić]

Yes, it took me a while to realise that Asle mirrored Elsa's profile picture

[elsa hoffmann]

And you guys only noticed now our names are mirror images of one another's ??
  I noticed that day 1

[BW]

Hehe.. I was wondering how anyone could have a meaniful discussion with themselves. Then it dawned on me

[PedroS]

And you guys only noticed now our names are mirror images of one another's ??
  I noticed that day 1

Still looking for SordeP 

[Jakov Minić]

Thanks to my incompetence and this thread I started to get some knowledge of layers and brushes
I managed to put 4 images on top of each other and make all 4 moons visible! (beginners luck)
Super moon running away.
 

[Erik Lund]

Strange,,, they look sharpish,,,

[Jakov Minić]

Strange,,, they look sharpish,,,

 
Amazing what a tripod can do to you...

[David H. Hartman]

I guess this is confession or a testimony meeting for photographers? I suffer attention deficit so I've never shot a wedding, ceremony or formals. I couldn't mess up a couple's wedding photos. I enjoy shoot candids at a wedding as a third shooter.

Dave Hartman

[elsa hoffmann]

Thanks to my incompetence and this thread I started to get some knowledge of layers and brushes
I managed to put 4 images on top of each other and make all 4 moons visible! (beginners luck)
Super moon running away.

Well done. Thanks to this thread I have started using the pen tool. Need to work on my hair selections now

[David H. Hartman]

I put a link up for a guy with tutorials on Photoshop. While testing the link I watched part of one. He is so disgusting I don't want to be associated with him so I pulled the link. I didn't remember him being so bad. Sorry.

Dave Hartman


 

[charlie]

Well done. Thanks to this thread I have started using the pen tool. Need to work on my hair selections now

I don't want to throw this thread off topic but if you'd like to open a new thread maybe we can share some selection techniques. I'd like to learn the pen tool better as well but have some other techniques that work good for things like hair.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Side remark:  a discussion of selection techniques entails some proficiency in that field, thus should go into its own thread. Here, people confess or even admit what they don't master. Like an AA meeting only with failed or incompetent photographers ...

[RobOK]

It is a good reminder how we sometimes focus on our faults - so many amazing artists here. It is such a vast endeavor no one is without gaps!

For me, I frustrate myself by too eagerly snapping without stopping to breath and really focus on composition.

Having joined this "sport" only in the digital era (D70 first DSLR), my manual focusing is slow and I don't trust myself enough to use it more. I also lean on shallow DOF too much (58 f1.4 I'm looking at you!)

Rob.

[David H. Hartman]

Speedlights. I own THREE and still dont know how to use them - 11 years down the line 

Here is a good place to start...

http://strobist.blogspot.com/?m=1

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html?m=1

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2016/07/lighting-102-has-been-completely-updated.html?m=1

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2017/01/lighting-103-introduction.html?m=1

Dave

I'm not associated with David Hobby or any of his blog's supporters. I sometimes participate in the Strobist.com forum on Flickr.

[Les Olson]

A young man approached a great swordmaster and said, "How long will it take me to learn the art?".  The swordmaster answered, "Ten years".  The young man said, "But I am very talented and I will study night and day".  The swordmaster answered, "In that case, twenty years".  The young man said "Look, you don't get it, I will do anything you say, but I don't have time to waste".  The swordmaster answered, "In that case, thirty years".