do more photography

As I was cycling to an appointment I suddenly thought: I love fashion, I love photography, why not combine the two? Why not, in the whole process of trying to be a professional photographer, start focussing on specialising (I think it’s better to have a couple of specialties and be really good at a 2 or 3 things, than selling yourself as a middle of the road photographer who can do everything ‘a little bit’. Which is, well, what I am now. I need a specialisation! I need a focus!), and why not let one specialisation be fashion photography? The least I could do is try it out…

OK the research I’m doing on the internet have led me to believing I want to know more about/try out the Canon 500D or 450D and Nikon D90 although the Nikon is so much more expensive that I might have to stick trying out the different Canons.
And I want to get the Canon 8800f scanner so I can scan my 35 and 120 film.
I’m not going to buy a whole range of lenses just yet, I want to do more photography and in the process find out which lenses I want (like: what do I really want to be able to do) and then buy them. Instead of buying a whole range at the start and then find out I only use half of them.
Exciting!

This week I’m going to have my first real exhibition! It’s at work (ok, not yet a real art gallery, but it’s a good start and it’s very exciting nonetheless) and instead of one theme, I’ve collected and enlarged the ‘best of’. (Although in the future it would be good to make an exhibition with a theme.)
I’m excited about it, but also really scared: what will people think?? Will they like it?
I hope it’s the start of me taking this photography-thing even more seriously. Then I can save up and buy a really good camera (not a snapshot camera, but a ‘real’ one, with different lenses and stuff), and take a course to better myself.

just ordered the lomography holga (with one black&white filmroll and one colored filmroll), can’t wait till it’s delivered! I’m so excited!

Taking photos with my digital camera is allright, but I think I want to go back to the old-fashioned way, because I feel I’ve sort of lost the photographic eye. With a digital camera it’s just point and shoot, shoot again, maybe a third time, and then delete what came out not so good. I want to get back looking at what I’m photographing, and then the excitement after getting it developed of ‘what do the photos look like?’. I also want to get a lomography camera, a Holga or Diana+, fun the fun of it. To play with it, see how the world looks through those cameras.

I’ve started doing this more often again, but I really realised i need a better camera, ‘cause the one I have just isn’t good enough, the quality isn’t up to my standards. I really should get a sony cybershot again (I always had sony cybershots till I got this casio-exilim camera, but the quality of the Sony’s are just way better) and I want a proper camera for the real works… But I guess I have to start saving then, because I don’t have the money now! Maybe I should look around for a second-hand camera, that’ll be a good idea.

Yesterday I was looking through my photo-archive, saw all the pictures I took (before I went to art-school), and I really miss doing that! I miss taking photos at concerts, when I go to the beach, be creative with my view on the world… I must really get back at it!