Photography :- A Pain?

XxBlueCleric.xX

Yeah, I'm taking Photography II in high school and I have a B so far. I'm trying for the A, but my projects always end up as Cs and low Bs. Homework is the only thing that's really saving me.

Are any of you guys on this forum photographers or have taken high levels of photography? If so, what did you guys do to improve or what are some tips you can give an obviously poor photographer?
 
This is better placed in IR but thats okay.

I learned photography from my dad, and although I'm not amazing I'm fairly confident with my photos.

There are three main points of a good photo, angle, lighting, and focus. Interesting angles and lighting can make any photo look great, and focus is of course the most important aspect.
Try to stay away from using flash, and either open your aperture (the hole that the light comes in through, smaller aperture gets you more depth of field but less light), increase you shutter speed (no longer then 1/60 of a second without a tripod) or increase your ISO (higher ISO makes your photos grainy). many of these settings are manual operated, so you have to move away from that friendly "auto" setting.
As a setting, P (program) is an easy one to use, it's pretty much like auto but takes aperture and shutter speed into account more, giving better quality photos without flash. A (aperture) is also simple, all you have to do is set your aperture and the camera should find an appropriate shutter speed for you.

Anyways I'm pretty much rambling now, and I'm pretty much an amateur photographer, so it's probably not very good advice ^^;
 
I have some experience of photography from college. Some of my (amateur) work is on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amkitani/

It would be nice to you to check some professional photographers works to have some reference about angle, colors, ligths, DOF, etc.

Some photographers that I recommend you see some work are:

Man Ray
Sebastião Salgado
Henri-Cartier Bresson
Robert Doisneau
Bob Gruen
Helmult Newton

=)
 
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