If I Had to Start Photography From 0, Here's What I'd Do in 2024!

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00:00 Intro
00:33 Step 1
01:40 Personal Story 1
02:38 Step 2
03:17 Personal Story 2
05:05 Step 3
06:23 Step 4
07:42 Step 5
08:45 Bonus Tip!

[vedranb]

Buying used gear is epic, but I would recommend to never buy used batteries, SD cards or external hard drives. Those are the items that are the most subject to wear&tear, limited charge/write cycles and if you're paying for it, you want to use it to its max, and have the best chance to not run into reliability issues soon after purchase. I feel not enough people point this out.

[AndrewSacoman]

Excellent advice! Learning to analyze and replicate shots is a skill that will continue to make you better over time. DOF, perspective, motion, time of day, gear, it spans every aspect of photography.

[azmiupnorth]

This is the first video of yours I've seen. It really came through at the right time. I'm 26 and have worked trade jobs and was enlisted ever since I started working. Even as a kid, my summer jobs were washing semis or doing loading and unloading for a trucking company. I was raised basically being told men do hard, labor-intensive trade jobs. I fell in love with photography about a year ago. I've recently started classes at my local community College and am hoping to make a career out of not only photography but digital art but even with that I've felt weirdly lost with it and have felt like quitting but this video really helped for some reason.

[fordbw]

Im an engineer from Thailand who had been working at CARB project in Riverside CA for almost 2 years. I love that place! Mt. Rubidoux was my favourite!

[JoseOrtiz-zyew]

Uh, I disagree with you on the concert photos looking like crap. I thought they captured the mood and scene so well. I liked them a lot. Great video. Always nice to go back and get a refreshener

[chrish]

You got me with Jared's introduction. I was looking away and thought that I had skipped to a new video by accident.

[BernhardSchwarz-xskp]

And never forget - 100% of the pictures you miss are those that you did not take. And the most useless camera on the market today - mirrorless or not- is the one you left at home.

[baconcrusader]

Love your channel and energy. I've been shooting professionally since the mid 1990's, and your advice here is rock solid and should be required watching for anyone looking at getting into professional photography. I wasted a lot of time and money learning through trial and error on what you have shared here in a short 9:41... Listen to this 15x if you're starting out, and do not deviate from the advice. Especially about learning how to creat masterpieces by replicating existing work. Once you learn the hows and whys an established artist or work of art "works, " you're 90% of the way there. But that unfortunately can honestly take some time.

[meat_loves_wasabi]

I started with A Nikon D5100 with kit lens for a trip to London many years ago .. time flies

[MatSjo]

“As long as it’s APC or Full Frame sensors, you’ll get professional results” meanwhile some of us are over here working with m43 and only delivering amateur work to our clients 😢

[rodelmedia]

the knowledge we have now to tell your self 10 years ago is priceless! nice vid! hope all is well bud!

[olafkliemt]

A5100. 24.2MP sensor, touch-focus, great AF, easier on the battery. 1080p60 only, but easy to upscale and easy on the memory vards.
when it comes to lenses maybe you choose the Sony 18-135mm lens which is AF, and some excellent manual lenses like the TTArtisan 10mm F2 and the 7Artisans 60mm F2.8 Macro. that covers pretty much everything and you learn how to orchestrate aperture and shutter speed. for the lowest price possible. another recommendation for portraits is the Brightin Star 35mm F0.95 for 150 bucks. yes, the manuals are that cheap now and are metal/glass builds with excellent coatings. sharpness, bokeh, aberrations, vignetting, flaring - you will be blown away at this price point.

[BrettOssman]

On your first PRO gigs, make sure do overs are an option. Imagine the nightmare of messing up a wedding shoot due to lack of experience. No do-overs on a wedding shoot.

[ozark.explorer]

I'm just now making the move from using my phone for my gazillion photos, to getting a serious camera and diving more into photography, and this was super helpful!

[Extrafresch]

Oh huh, been doing photography for a few years now, and I'm still learning new things from this video lol

[Jparkss]

I think starting off with your phone is a great way to get into photography, definitely street photography.

[Arrozconchopsticks]

I was given a 650D/T4i with gear, after wanting to do photography for years. I'm gonna make the best of it.

[sylvestersim]

Great Video, thanks for giving these tips. Another thing that helped me up the photography is join the local photography community and go out shoot together with them..

[ReidVV]

I teach production at a university. Not photo only, but more multimedia, photo, video, graphics, web. Love your advice because it's real. This is what I tell my students, too. I am going to use your video to back up my lesson on "going pro."

[Sven-R]

I bought all my gear either user or demo products from photography shops, saved me so much money and I never got disappointed. A lot of this gear is hardly ever used at all.