Hello World
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 10:45PM
So here I am starting my second blog, the first one on photography. I hope to use this space to share my thoughts on photography (both technical and creative) and to share some of my own work, which will focus on photographs taken on film.
I will totally ignore the discussion on which one is better. In my mind it is the same as claiming that the only real paintings paintings are oils, relegating watercolours to the trash can. They are after just different mediums with a different technique, look and, feel.
As this is the first post photographic journey that have lead me to this point.
How does one become interested in photography? In most cases it is something that is there from childhood, either being given a camera, seeing a print develop in the dark room or having your parents trust you enough to use the family camera. In my case it was the last point, always wanting to be a good boy in my parents eyes. The camera was a Yaschia SLR with a 50mm f2 lens which we still have, but has not been used for the past decade.
There was just something special about looking through the view finder of those old SLRs, the feeling of photography.
A couple of years ago now (2009) I bought myself a brand spanking new Nikon D90 as a birthday present to myself. A SLR all of my own. Something to make great photographs with, because surly it is the camera that does all the work. Sadly that is not the truth of the matter, as a carpenter has a hammer a photographer has a camera.
It was at this point I set out to learn every thing that I could which involved reading as many photography magazines as I could. At the start they were all great with all sorts of useful information. As time passes I am getting more picky about which ones I would actually pay for I was getting sick of reading the same things over and over again.
So here I am today getting less and less interested in reading about technique and more interested in learning actual photography from the masters, the art of seeing light or getting that one pose from someone to make a powerful portrait. Hopefully this is something I will be able to share with you all.
I will totally ignore the discussion on which one is better. In my mind it is the same as claiming that the only real paintings paintings are oils, relegating watercolours to the trash can. They are after just different mediums with a different technique, look and, feel.
As this is the first post photographic journey that have lead me to this point.
How does one become interested in photography? In most cases it is something that is there from childhood, either being given a camera, seeing a print develop in the dark room or having your parents trust you enough to use the family camera. In my case it was the last point, always wanting to be a good boy in my parents eyes. The camera was a Yaschia SLR with a 50mm f2 lens which we still have, but has not been used for the past decade.
There was just something special about looking through the view finder of those old SLRs, the feeling of photography.
A couple of years ago now (2009) I bought myself a brand spanking new Nikon D90 as a birthday present to myself. A SLR all of my own. Something to make great photographs with, because surly it is the camera that does all the work. Sadly that is not the truth of the matter, as a carpenter has a hammer a photographer has a camera.
It was at this point I set out to learn every thing that I could which involved reading as many photography magazines as I could. At the start they were all great with all sorts of useful information. As time passes I am getting more picky about which ones I would actually pay for I was getting sick of reading the same things over and over again.
So here I am today getting less and less interested in reading about technique and more interested in learning actual photography from the masters, the art of seeing light or getting that one pose from someone to make a powerful portrait. Hopefully this is something I will be able to share with you all.
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