Advices For Young People: 27. Why should you acquire digital imaging skills when you are young?

DIGITAL IMAGING SKILLS

Acquire digital imaging skills through daily photography. You will find such skills very useful in your career and daily life. To do that, you have to be convinced that these skills are valid for your future.

1. DSLR CAMERAS OR HANDPHONES. Handphones are good but DSLR cameras give much sharper close-ups and zooms. Whichever you use, the important thing is to practise photography daily and process the photos to be good.

2. DOCUMENT your best photos in a blog for later references and to monitor your experiences. The reason for using a blog is that it has a 'SEARCH' function for your few thousand articles written over the year.

3. Earn a PASSIVE income from photography. I started posting my best images at www.shutterstock.com/g/toapayohvets in Sep 2019. As at 14 Jun 2022, I have sold 1,064 downloaded images and 5 videos, earning US$326.15. If you are calculating, this amount is not worth the time spent as I have earned US$0.30/download! But I don't have to worry about maintenance, marketing and getting payments.

My buyers are global. This is passive income which depends on the quality and type of images buyers WANT. My wildlife photos do not sell as there are much better ones from competitors and I am a beginner in wildlife photography.

4. Digital skills TO SHARE YOUR PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE. I started around 25 years ago for my professional veterinary case studies and record the images in my website, www.toapayohvets.com when the world wide web or internet started. The webpages started as grey and white, but now, you get colours. Prospective clients view your case studies as you take time to share.

CONCLUSION. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS. Use the ‘P’ Mode as a beginner. Later, you will learn to use the Manual and other modes. For the birds shown as examples in this blog, I use the Canon DSLR EOS 90D, 18-200 mm lens.

P Mode, AF, single point focus, continuous mode. Hand-held, bright 9-11 AM sunshine helps get good pictures. Focus on the bird’s eye.

SOME EXAMPLES OF MY WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BIRDS ARE AT:

https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2019/02/3444-male-red-breasted-parakeet-pink.html

DATE OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 22 May 2019

Singapore Wildlife – Two or three Ring-necked parakeets flew by the Lentor Loop area. They ate pomegranates outside the two houses.