My mom asked me why I haven't posted anything for awhile? Honestly I don't have a really good reason. For one, I took a break from taking pictures because I have been a little upset over the fact that I can't purchase my new camera this year. We had some unexpected issues come up, and so my camera fund went towards that. Now I am extremely glad I had a little fund to help us out, but I really wanted my camera. So finally I decided to quit whinning about it and do something else like really focus on the basics of photography. I have always loved photography, I inherited that from my Grandpa Jensen who is an amazing photographer-his lighting storm pictures are incredible! I have spent hours at his house looking through his photo books while he tells me about each picture he took. He is the one who got me hooked on photography.
I started out by begging my husband to let me buy a DSLR camera and an extra lens. I choose Nikon because I could make it work, and for some odd reason I am Canon impaired-if anyone has a Canon I think they are amazing, I just can't get them to work. Anyways I started reading my manual and I quickly realized that I had no idea how to really use my camera. So now what do I do?
After asking a local photographer about how she got started and following her advise I enrolled into some classes at UVU. I seriously think my teacher was annoyed everytime I showed up to class, because I always had endless questions. I wanted to know everything I could. I also wanted to learn how to do everything manually-focus, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, everything. I refuse to ever put my camera in auto, I don't know why but I always felt like it was cheating.
Well after awhile of reading books, following forums, getting photoshop and lightroom I felt I wasn't improving. I was getting annoyed, actually I was pissed off, but mostly because I had a response to one of my photos that completely made me question if I really understood what I was doing. Now I appreciate the person's point of view, at the time I did not. Instead I shut down and stopped trying. I kept saying "when I can get my new camera then I will try up again". Sad to say, the 'when' never came, so now what?
Now I am hitting the basics...again! But this time it is starting to actually stick and I feel like I really understand the concepts and now I can really improve. So thank you AshleeT249 for your complete and total honesty (as much as I hated it). I guess I did need a good slap in the face, but next time don't be so dang blunt-once is enough for me!
below I posted my settings and also my actions in photoshop.
f/4.5 1/80 iso 200color boost-single shot, curves
f/4.5 1/80 iso 200moody pop minus the B&W
This is Link, he has the coolest eyes I have ever seen. Except when Issac is knocking him out to cut his leg, then they look all funky.
f/4.5, 1/80 iso 100bright/contrast
3 comments:
Yay!! I feel like my monica is back! I wanted to punch Ashlee2490084... (who cares what her stupid name was) in the face. More pictures PLEASE!!!
Good for you pursuing something you love to do. I just make up excuses about not having enough time. Really I am just afraid to fail. Brian knows how to work cameras and photo shop but he never explains how to do anything. Honestly my brother-in-law who is not the professional photographer is the one who has shown me how to do diffrent things with my camera.
You know, back in my day when I was going to school (oh wait, I still am) and I took a photography class... and I think I had that same dumb biotch Ashely in MY class!!!!!!! J/k. But photography is hard. I also love to take pictures, but it's A LOT to take in- hence why I chose Fine Art. Ha ha. But I can honestly see an improvement in your work. So keep up the good work! And don't forget "No great thing is created suddenly"- that's my Motto. Us Artsy people gotta stick together!!!! (Now if only we can get Amanda to ever update her blog!)
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