My Photography background (in a nutshell)
One Year of Photos on a daily basis
Intro and photography background--11/18/15
Ok, so I've been thinking about it and I am going to try this again. Blog Style.
I've always enjoyed looking at photos, from the early days of film until recently creating my own photos using film and digital. With the advent and run of all these photo editing programs, how can one not be enamored with something as cool as photography.
I have been into photography since I bought my DSLR t3i Canon about three years ago. Only using kit lenses, and having friends that are pro photographers and graphic artists, my interest has gone over the top.
Since then, and basically looking up some type photography lesson every day, or doing tasks/Instagram photo challenges on a weekly basis, etc. I bought a 50mm f1.8 for the DSLR about a year ago and recently purchased a 24mm pancake f2.8 for my DSLR, on these friends recommendations--I LOVE both lenses and now that I've been reading, have a strong understanding of what they're used for and what they can do.
I'm currently in the market for a much more expensive lens, at least to me--just a matter of trying to figure which one I want. A 24-70? a 24-105? Used? New? Yikes!
I am up for the #365project challenge. A photo a day, caption it or not, with which day it is and how that day impacted your life. Interesting, appearing easy, yet a challenge when 8pm rolls around and you haven't taken a photo for the day yet! I'm also really hoping this helps me make different decisions and takes in different views or gives me insight to take more than sunset, bike, and selfie photos.
A Little History-
As amazing as digital photography is, I yearn to learn. I seemed to miss the film shooting days, as I never had an SLR growing up. Jen was always the one that took the 35mm point and shoot camera (pre-cellphone era) for pics of us and our history together from our twenties to mid thirties.
That has changed recently. A few months ago I acquired a 1978 Fujica 705W from my dad, who no longer has any interest in film anymore, especially with digital nowadays and since he can take a pic with his iPhone. He gave it to my daughter, who also got me more interested in film with her uncanny love of Polaroids. Between that and rotary landline phones, this kid is an older soul, for sure. I gave her an old crime scene Macro5 Polaroid I won at auction for Christmas with some expired film. She totally loved it. This Christmas I plan on buying her at least 2 pack of Impossible Project film for her to shoot. She also got Dad's old Polaroid 600. Ill be interested to see what she shoots. Just hate that the film is so damned expensive.
Another beautiful thing about IG that is not FB is you can meet some incredibly talented people, shooting film, or polaroids cameras or just those with same interests. I met a local school teacher who has the same interest as me with film and Polariods, and I gave him my OTHER Macro5 that was my son's (who didn't care at all for it) and just asked him to take pics with it on occasion. I like seeing things used-especially when I can make someone's life better by giving.
In return, and I did not ask for this, my new friend on IG is working currently in a photo store, restoring old polaroid cameras. He said he would fix the rollers on my old Land Camera I acquired from my late mother-in-law. I hope to get it shooting soon. There will definitely be posts on here when that gets accomplished. The beauty of photography and actual social networks doing what they're supposed to do!
The 35mm Fujica was not so interesting to her, so I decided to shoot some film with it. Read the directions and got started.
Shot a roll one day that Jen and I went on a bike ride, took it to walmart and developed it. Got it back in a week. Was unimpressed but there were some shots of greatness or me understanding what an older SLR could do.
Learned:
You actually have to compose a photo using film.
You actually have to check exposure, manually set a focus, and realized the exposure triangle.
You have to spend money to get film developed, so there is much more to taking a film picture, than not liking a photo you just shot with your digital auto everything and deleting it to retake it.
I think I like film a lot more now because I can appreciate the learning process.
I like film more now because I have to know something actually about PHOTOGRAPHY to get it to turn out they way I expect it to.
I also had to learn how to wind a film roll correctly. Ask me how I know. 3 unexposed film rolls later! Waiting a week for a Walmart return just to realize not a single photo developed because the film never advanced, and although the film advance states you're on the next pic, you never really are.
Since using my dad's camera, I have recently purchased a beautiful Minolta x700 from a local Thrift store, in a beautiful midsize Le Mans case, with a 50mm f1.7, and a screw to the 50mm zoom and telephoto. I also borrowed a 28-70mm Kalimar lens. It takes great pics. I spent $20 for the whole shebang and have been shooting film with it recently and have been more than happy with the results. Following blogs on film and older picture taking and older cameras has gotten me more interested in photography than ever before so I'm ready to finally give this #365project a shot. I'll use all media types, from digital, to my mom's Nikon D800, to the 35mm's, the Canon, the Samsuck cell phone (crap). GoPro stop vids, whatever I can use to take a pic a day. I don't plan on the being professional, but hope to look back on this thing saying-'that's a year of my life' on a daily basis. I definitely hope to see my photo taking skills improve as I will still be studying and learning on a daily and weekly basis.
The first week was done using flickr but I'm choosing to do the rest here, on my blog. It's just easier. Maybe I'll put the more special pics on flickr, as google likes to drop the quality of photos in order to have more for the user.
We'll have to see how this turns out!
Intro and photography background--11/18/15
Ok, so I've been thinking about it and I am going to try this again. Blog Style.
I've always enjoyed looking at photos, from the early days of film until recently creating my own photos using film and digital. With the advent and run of all these photo editing programs, how can one not be enamored with something as cool as photography.
I have been into photography since I bought my DSLR t3i Canon about three years ago. Only using kit lenses, and having friends that are pro photographers and graphic artists, my interest has gone over the top.
Since then, and basically looking up some type photography lesson every day, or doing tasks/Instagram photo challenges on a weekly basis, etc. I bought a 50mm f1.8 for the DSLR about a year ago and recently purchased a 24mm pancake f2.8 for my DSLR, on these friends recommendations--I LOVE both lenses and now that I've been reading, have a strong understanding of what they're used for and what they can do.
I'm currently in the market for a much more expensive lens, at least to me--just a matter of trying to figure which one I want. A 24-70? a 24-105? Used? New? Yikes!
I am up for the #365project challenge. A photo a day, caption it or not, with which day it is and how that day impacted your life. Interesting, appearing easy, yet a challenge when 8pm rolls around and you haven't taken a photo for the day yet! I'm also really hoping this helps me make different decisions and takes in different views or gives me insight to take more than sunset, bike, and selfie photos.
A Little History-
As amazing as digital photography is, I yearn to learn. I seemed to miss the film shooting days, as I never had an SLR growing up. Jen was always the one that took the 35mm point and shoot camera (pre-cellphone era) for pics of us and our history together from our twenties to mid thirties.
That has changed recently. A few months ago I acquired a 1978 Fujica 705W from my dad, who no longer has any interest in film anymore, especially with digital nowadays and since he can take a pic with his iPhone. He gave it to my daughter, who also got me more interested in film with her uncanny love of Polaroids. Between that and rotary landline phones, this kid is an older soul, for sure. I gave her an old crime scene Macro5 Polaroid I won at auction for Christmas with some expired film. She totally loved it. This Christmas I plan on buying her at least 2 pack of Impossible Project film for her to shoot. She also got Dad's old Polaroid 600. Ill be interested to see what she shoots. Just hate that the film is so damned expensive.
Another beautiful thing about IG that is not FB is you can meet some incredibly talented people, shooting film, or polaroids cameras or just those with same interests. I met a local school teacher who has the same interest as me with film and Polariods, and I gave him my OTHER Macro5 that was my son's (who didn't care at all for it) and just asked him to take pics with it on occasion. I like seeing things used-especially when I can make someone's life better by giving.
In return, and I did not ask for this, my new friend on IG is working currently in a photo store, restoring old polaroid cameras. He said he would fix the rollers on my old Land Camera I acquired from my late mother-in-law. I hope to get it shooting soon. There will definitely be posts on here when that gets accomplished. The beauty of photography and actual social networks doing what they're supposed to do!
The 35mm Fujica was not so interesting to her, so I decided to shoot some film with it. Read the directions and got started.
Shot a roll one day that Jen and I went on a bike ride, took it to walmart and developed it. Got it back in a week. Was unimpressed but there were some shots of greatness or me understanding what an older SLR could do.
Learned:
You actually have to compose a photo using film.
You actually have to check exposure, manually set a focus, and realized the exposure triangle.
You have to spend money to get film developed, so there is much more to taking a film picture, than not liking a photo you just shot with your digital auto everything and deleting it to retake it.
I think I like film a lot more now because I can appreciate the learning process.
I like film more now because I have to know something actually about PHOTOGRAPHY to get it to turn out they way I expect it to.
I also had to learn how to wind a film roll correctly. Ask me how I know. 3 unexposed film rolls later! Waiting a week for a Walmart return just to realize not a single photo developed because the film never advanced, and although the film advance states you're on the next pic, you never really are.
Since using my dad's camera, I have recently purchased a beautiful Minolta x700 from a local Thrift store, in a beautiful midsize Le Mans case, with a 50mm f1.7, and a screw to the 50mm zoom and telephoto. I also borrowed a 28-70mm Kalimar lens. It takes great pics. I spent $20 for the whole shebang and have been shooting film with it recently and have been more than happy with the results. Following blogs on film and older picture taking and older cameras has gotten me more interested in photography than ever before so I'm ready to finally give this #365project a shot. I'll use all media types, from digital, to my mom's Nikon D800, to the 35mm's, the Canon, the Samsuck cell phone (crap). GoPro stop vids, whatever I can use to take a pic a day. I don't plan on the being professional, but hope to look back on this thing saying-'that's a year of my life' on a daily basis. I definitely hope to see my photo taking skills improve as I will still be studying and learning on a daily and weekly basis.
The first week was done using flickr but I'm choosing to do the rest here, on my blog. It's just easier. Maybe I'll put the more special pics on flickr, as google likes to drop the quality of photos in order to have more for the user.
We'll have to see how this turns out!
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