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!

I need to look into grants!

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.

Kel! your avatar is awesome. did you take that photo?

from my back yard to time square, all in one day!
if anyone wants to see more of my photos from October, find them here on my calendar.
http://www.shuttercal.com/calendar/DefaultArtist

now i’m on this daily project and my camera comes everywhere with me.

So worth it! I am dragging my camera along more often now on walks and even though I hardly do anything with the picture and most suck bigtime, I have refound joy in just taking pictures. In the past I disliked digital cameras, but now I love it as it doesn’t cost you a thing to shoot 100 pictures and throw them away again.

Anyhow, I’m going to keep this on my goal list for a while longer. But I can already say it is succeeding and fun :)

I just got a new camera. any ideas about a good way to get started?

It’s been a while since I really did any serious photography; where the sole purpose of shooting was to fulfill a passion… I think one of the factors here is that I bought a pretty nice digital camera to replace my film stuff.
Well, let me say; gratification is instant… knowing you’ve captured what you want is immediate. And this sort of takes away some of the pleasure, I reckon. I used to process all my own stuff, particularly B&W and then finally seeing what I remembered seeing when I pressed the button all those hours or days previously was all consuming and pleasurable.
While the benefits of digital are obvious, film still carries the passion. Perhaps, this can be achieved by switching off the display and not looking at the shots until they are uploaded… maybe I’ll try this.
Something I think would be rich in it’s reward is to take up pinhole photography using 4×5” sheet film and then contact printing the result. I’d like to hear from anyone who has given this a go. I’m very much into landscape photography so pinhole photography would be well suited.