own a digital SLR camera

I own a digital point-and-shoot and a manual SLR camera, so I figured it’s time for these two worlds to collide. Plus, I think I can produce some really beautiful things if I had my hands on a professional digital camera.

Great camera!

say cheese!!

learn more about photography and take better pictures. :)

My sister is getting married in Feb 2007 and she has asked me to be her photographer. If I do end up taking the photographs then a digital SLR would be extremely beneficial.

12 years shooting film, and the past 4 shooting digital. Began with a Minolta SLR, a medium telephoto lens for shooting portraits (and sports for yearbook class,) and many a roll of T-Max black & white film that I’d process and print in the darkroom. These past few years I had found myself shooting almost exclusively with it’s digital replacement, a pro-sumer Olympus C5050Z... but try as I could to get used to it, I always had some residual frustration with the inevitable presence of that pronounced shutter “lag”... always necessitating a near-telepathic sense which presaged every candid press of the shutter. Or, more usually, capturing the exact moment someone blinked in a group shot. Natch! So, after shooting this way for I guess about 4 years now, I finally bit the bullet and returned to my SLR roots with a Canon 20D. All I can say is… wow. it is like being reunited with an old friend. Or, in a way, like a love affair re-kindled. So I’ve been happy as a clam, shooting away since mid-December… right about the time finals ended. :) Make the jump, if you can afford it. You won’t regret it.

edit: added list of Photography Tools I use…

I’ve had two Sony’s… both took great shots, both had Carl Ziess sonar lenses… can’t remeber the number of the first one (my mom has it now), but i’ve currently got the F828.

I bought an N-80, but didn’t like it so i sold it on ebay and bought the F828.

I use to do black and white stuff with an old manual, that was fun, i especially enjoyed the darkroom stuff. Film is only good if you by a million dollar lense, and your own dark room.

You can see some pics i’ve collected along the way here:

http://www.gieson.com/photos/

Here’s some stuff to help figure things out:

http://www.gieson.com/school/