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I like this the most! Great list :)

This is super good news for shooting things like: inside rooms for, say, a Bed & Breakfast. You can take ZERO lights with you and just use the lights in the room. They will NOT wash out the shot which they would do using film. In fact, the incandescent lights work FAR, FAR better than any flash would. The room looks normal, just like what you were looking at yourself with your eyes, and colors are rich and pleasant.

Now, this is true for all indoors shooting. No flash. Just use incandescent lights. Here is the hidden secret about this: this means that you can light a scene to suit your eye and what you shoot will look just like that. With indoor flash you have to shoot polaroids, check them out, and then try a flash/film shot and do it lots of times. And, you really never know if it worked until you process the film. Too late if you are being paid for this and have to go back and do it again.

Something else that is really, really nice too: ever try shooting metal products? You cannot light them EVER properly using flash/film. But, you can with incandescent lights because what you see is what you get in digital-world. When the flash goes off, all metal shine disappears, reflections on the metal (which is what makes it look like metal) disappear, and the metal looks like a lump. But not with digital and incandescent lighting. You get what you are looking at… that is very nice.

Ever try getting metal to shine? To look like brass, or bronze, or stainless steel using flash/film? Forget it. But, with digital it is a piece of cake using incandescent lights.

I could tell you more if you ask.

My 12 year old neighbor girl has been going with me on walks she wants to learn photography. While I’m still a newbie I did give her my old digital camera to use. She is a natural. Now I look at things from her level sometimes it tells a whole different story.

My second project is similar to the first: it’s 365 Days, which focuses on taking a self-portrait photo everyday. Again, I try to do this creatively as well.

And finally, the third project is 100 Strangers, which is the most difficult of the three. This projects calls for you to get out of your comfort zone and actually go out and ask complete strangers to take a photo of them. It’s indeed unsettling to do this, but I’m finding it very rewarding.

Needless to say, these projects keep me totally busy, but they have challenged and enriched my photography skills greatly, even more than the occasional wedding event jobs I do.

It really help me to think much about my photographs.

I love the first rule. Shoot, Shoot, Shoot.