So, where do I start?
That’s what I said.
I’ve always known I had an eye for photography, and what’s more, my design background has taught me lots and lots about composition. However, the only camera I had was a compact Panasonic Lumix camera…
I bought it for snapping newborn spawn #1 back in 2007 and I researched enough so that a good shot of other things was within reach (and within budget.)
Though it is (was) a nice camera – I mean it’s got a Leica lens, and they must be good. Well, good enough for Nikki Sixx to name his dog after. It’s approaching a decade in existence and continues to serve as my daughter’s camera. It still exists to suffer my kids, and has been suffering my kids, and the lens doesn’t open sometimes, and the casing is falling apart, and the aluminium zoom part is dented, and, and, and…
I needed a different start. So I grabbed a Nikon D60 off ebay and this stop-start hobby had begun again with new impetus. I intend to make something of it.
I was thrust into learning fast, at work one day,
“Q, you can use a camera, can you photograph some a la carte food this afternoon?”
Armed with a Nikon D5200, I had to learn what professional was quite fast.
After some beginner’s luck – the food shots actually came out really well – I took photos of jewellery, watches, pubs, more food, and discovered that I’d naturally started using the manual setting and was fully out of auto and becoming quietly confident in this new pasture.
Then I stumbled upon a game-changer worthy of a lightning-bolt. An bloody epiphany. Plodding about at a pedestrian speed, I saw something that lit a fire under my ass. I’ll explain what it was in due course, but suffice to say, I’m learning x10 the speed i was!
So, I can’t rely on my right eye alone and forced myself to get more technical. I purchased an upgrade to my D60; a Nikon D3300. This was a breakthrough. My own camera – and it wasn’t naff!
This is roughly where we are now, after a few accelerated shoots, and spotting places to photograph everywhere, I’ve never been more interested in learning.
I’m only a little way into this journey and you can either choose to ride this horse with me, or I can chuck you some dusty polaroids as I fly past…
Whatever, I hope you enjoy my photography as much as I am so far…
