Do You Have Enough Talent In Your Tank to be a Photographer?

Your mom says you have talent. Your friends think you’re amazing. Your photos get lots of likes.
You even had a show at the local coffee shop although you didn’t sell one 5×7.
At some point, you wonder if you have what it takes. Do you have enough talent? Do you have enough gas in the tank? Could you be a professional photographer. Could you actually get paid for doing what you love?

Or, maybe you’ve been doing this awhile. You’re a pro but you’re wondering if you have anything left in the tank. Can you make you’re work fresh. Can you reinvent yourself. Do you have any talent left?
We speak of talent like a finite resource. This person has 5 gallons of talent. That person, being more talented, was given 10 gallons. You either have it or you don’t. You’re blessed with photographic talent or you’re not. You have reserves or you’re running low and there is no Costco station in sight.
This the thing about talent: it’s overrated and of infinite supply.

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Biancospino

Biancospino, a photo by David Butali (Dylan@66) on Flickr.

The dry season and the incoming spring can give yiu the chance to take nice images around the country.
the light here took a great role and also the post production.
the perspective is powerful thanks to the Sigma 150-500.

Textured Tuscany

Textured Tuscany, a photo by David Butali (Dylan@66) on Flickr.

An image with a texture added to give a painture look.

Gold in my eyes

Gold in my eyes, a photo by David Butali (Dylan@66) on Flickr.

One of the landscape images taken for a brochure about Villa Cerreta Relais & Fattoria http://www.relaislacerreta.com/
San Fatucchio, Umbria,Italia

Pasture

Pasture by David Butali

How Post-Processing Helped Me Become a Better Photographer

Post-processing your digital photos is a controversial topic for some. The idea that you change and manipulate a photo after it’s been taken is seen by some as changing reality; creating something that’s ‘fake’. I disagree strongly with that idea for many reasons, but the reason I’m going to talk about here is that post-processing made me a better photographer.

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Take More Photos – Keep Less

The sleeping tuscan giant, a photo by David Butali (Dylan@66) on Flickr.

An article by Sam Levy (www.citifari.com)

In today’s environment, with the development and increased mobility of digital cameras, it has become easy and inexpensive to take a large volume of photos. Compared to the early days of photography when it took a couple of days, required gear weighting tens of pounds and cost a couple of dollars for each capture (or rather, at today’s prices, a few hundred dollars), photography today allows instantaneous results, requires less than a pound of equipment and cost little to no money per take… in addition, the photos taken today are often much better in quality. The future of photography is bright: we today have more than enough tools to surpass the works of the early masters of photography. The bad news is with advanced tools so readily a

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