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Originally Posted by Tuula
Hi Dean and thanks for replying.
My skills are not that great, my husband does alot of the shooting (he is by far better than me, but not a professional either) sometimes he is not available, so we decided that I need to learn a few things on my own.
Because I do amateur (and I mean raw amateur) sometimes I just do things on the fly, be it camera (I use a pentax optio - nothing fancy) and sometimes I use my camera phone - hey when you're squirting on the fly, you have to use what's readily available! lol. Mainly I use continuous light, there is alot of natural light available to me, but that's if it's not raining (I live in BC so alot of rainy days here), so I would like to know what I can do to supplement that light when it is dull and dreary outside, but I don't want it to take away my amateur affect (I hope I'm explaining it properly).
And here are a couple of pics as examples.
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Ok - this is a bit confusing because on one hand you want to improve your photography - but on the other hand you understand that it's the amateur element of your photography that is attracting your customers. And because you shoot a lot of stuff at the spur of the moment - without setting up any gear or preplanning anything - that makes it even harder to suggest how you might improve your content. You can't shoot pics with your cell phone in a darkened room at the spur of the moment and expect to get good results. The only way to get really "good" results is to have the right equipment and take some time to shoot nice stuff. It basically boils down to this - "you get out of it...what you put into it".
You basically have two options here. You continue to shoot the style that your members have come to expect. Or, you spend some money on some good gear - spend some time on learning to use it and spend some time setting up and producing nice content. I can't help you with the first option but if your up for changing how you produce content and want to put forth the money, effort and time - I can help you with that.