Number one. So the first tip I have for you is basically learn your camera. Learn every single button, learn every single dial, every single ring, everything that a camera has to offer. You need to know what that button does. The other thing is the menu system. Depending on what camera manufacturer you have whether it's Sony, Canon, you know, like a Fuji, they all have their own type of menu system. And you need to know that menu system really, really well inside and out. If you want to squeeze out all the juice, YouTube is a great resource for this. All you have to do is just type in your type of camera and make a model and type in review or menu system. What have you and videos will pop up and you'll be able to learn your camera really, really well. So tip number two is one of the biggest ones that I can offer in this five tip countdown. So basically you want, once you've purchased a camera, you know how to use it inside and out. You've got a good understanding of exposure. And even if you don't have a good understanding of exposure, take your camera with you everywhere. And I'm not kidding about this. It's the main reason why I decided to go with a mirrorless camera because it's so small, I throw it over my shoulder and I have a lens with it. I usually carry one lens and I just rock with that lens and I carry it with me everywhere. I always say that if you see me, you're going to see my camera. Take it with you everywhere. Personally, I didn't get really serious with photography until I started carrying my camera with me everywhere because opportunities are going to show up for pictures that you are going to be thankful that you had your camera with you. I know that when I don't have my camera with me, I'm always seeing opportunities and I'm just kicking myself because I'm like darn it, I don't have my camera with me and my phone never does it. I'd like the tactile feel of the buttons and the dial and the shutter release and creating a picture. I don't like just taking pictures. I like creating them. So if I'm doing a trick with shutter speed or if I'm overexposing it because I decide to overexpose it or under expose it because I decide to overexpose it for a certain effect, that is my choice and I'm creating that moment. But you have to have your camera with you at all times. A little story here. I think this documentary will serve very well. I watched Finding Vivian Meyer on Netflix. It's actually no longer on there. If you see it back on there, please leave me a comment below. But if you haven't seen Finding Vivian Meyer, I'd highly recommend you going and purchasing this documentary and really watching the whole thing or finding it wherever it is online and taking it in because it is so impactful. Now you may get something different from that documentary but I personally, what I got from that documentary was that Vivian Meyer carried her camera or egg camera because she had several of them. She always, always, always, always had a camera with her to capture whatever she felt was important or interesting. And that really struck a chord with me. Since that day, after watching Finding Vivian Meyer, I literally take my camera with me everywhere. So much so that my wife is like, leave your camera and I give her the side. I like, you know, you can't tell me that. Tip number three goes hand in hand with tip number two. So since you have your camera with you every single day, day in and day out, I want you to shoot every single day. I have this thing where I shoot about 60 pictures a day and I only, I'm only looking for one keeper. Basically, this keeps me practicing and the more you practice, the better you get. Okay, like the quote at the beginning of the video, all right, 10,000 hours. You got to put in those 10,000 hours. And sometimes I don't have to go and shoot 60 pictures. I will be somewhere and I'll grab a picture and I'll know that's a keeper and I'm like, I got my picture for the day every single day. You have your camera with you, make use of it, shoot every day. You'll thank me later. So with tips and before, like anything else in life, you need to breathe it. You need to live it. So you need to live photography. You need to breathe photography. So what do I mean by that? I mean reading blogs, listening to podcasts, watching documentaries like Finding Vivian Meyer. So what you want to do is you want to immerse yourself in photography. You have your camera with you every day. You're taking pictures every single day, right? You're learning your camera inside and out, but you're also watching blogs on YouTube about photography. You're maybe taking a course on photography. You are picking up books on photography. Okay, you're listening to podcasts on photography. My wife loves going to thrift shops. So I tag along and see what I can find. But I recently have been going and looking at their book racks and I'm looking for, you guessed, photography books. And I found this gem of a book right here is the Steve McCurry. If you don't know who Steve McCurry is, everyone has seen this picture right here. Okay. And in this book, details kind of like a photo journal of his entire catalog on the people that he took the pictures, how he took the pictures. I don't know, maybe $50, $60. And I found it at the thrift store for like two bucks. I was super excited that day. Not only did I find this one, but I found some other ones that are totally worth my while. Second book that I totally recommend is this particular book right here. I'll link this book down below and I'll see if I can find the link to this book down below. But check out your thrift stores and pick up some photography books because you never know what you're going to find. Tip number five, that is to connect with your subject. Figure out what type of photography moves you. What type of photography you see yourself shooting, creating pictures of, and you won't get tired of. So for example, when I was coming up and doing photography, I would take pictures of inanimate objects, things that I thought were cool looking, interesting angles. The two years ago, I took a picture and I'll show it up on the screen. I took a picture of a homeless man getting a haircut. I actually, I asked the gentleman, I said, can I, can I get clothes? And he, he nodded and I went in and I took the picture. And when I got home and I developed this picture, I was blown away because of the connection that I had of a stranger. And I found out that I was doing street photography. And I was like, oh wow, I really, really love street photography so much so that that's a lot of the work that I do on my Instagram. Now there's others that do, you know, food photography. There's other people that do gear photography. There's people that do fashion photography. There's people that do landscape photography. And you know, they specialize in those fields. It is up to you to figure out what it is that you want to do and just hone in on that particular subject matter and connect with allow you to create some compelling work. So just to recap, real quick. Number one, learn your camera inside and out. Take your camera with you everywhere. Shoot every single day. Live and breathe photography. Connect with your subject matter. So there you go, folks. That is the five tips that will make you a better photographer today. That's all for this week. I hope you guys really enjoyed it. If you found this information to be helpful to you, please subscribe, like if you can. Hit that bell for notifications to my next video next week. And make sure to tell a friend to tell a friend. 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