Ok,
So I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Chris. Whats yours? No seriously, it's quite daunting putting yourself out there in the 'blogosphere' (what an aweful word). Being there at the mercy of all those people who are ready to drop comments on any ideas or opinions you have. I imagine it could be quite soul crushing. There is only one way to find out isn't there!
Being English there are many things that have come apparent since I moved to the US three years ago.
1. My grammer and spelling is aweful. I can't help it. Im going to endevour to be as good as I can but if something annoys you, please let it slide.
2. Without realising, when placed in front of people I do not know or placed in a position of authority, I seems to up my politeness.
There are more observations to come but number 2 is the segway I have chosen to lead me into explaining my title.
A Word on Digital Photography.
It's so polite and non offensive isn't it. So very 'British'.
I was to put it plainly, bad at art. Drawing, painting etc I sucked at. However from a young age I loved photography (and fossils but thats another story). For a long time I had a point and shoot 35mm, followed by those wonderful APS camera that were so much easier to load and you got to pre-crop the photos before taking. Moving on from that about 4 years ago I was bought my first digital camera, an Olympus C460. It was lovely to have a digital camera. The freedom from the LCD screen and cost of film was immense. My love for photography began to bloom like a new growth which begins in spring. After 2 years I bought a Fujifilm Finepix S5200 (bridge camera).
With a full manual setting I explored the relationships between shutter speed and aperture. ISO speed and light levels. It was great. In 2 years I took over 6000 photos. Over 5000 in the last year alone.
However I got restless. When I was back visiting the North Yorkshire Moors with my friends from England. I took my Fujifilm and my friend Pete took his new entry level DSLR. Almost the same photos were taken, however the colour and quality of the DSLR made my photos look dry and blanched.
So here we are, 6 months later and a Nikon D40 is awaiting me. This friday I will make the final leap to the DSLR. As a way of helping me learn to use my camera and to tell others what I have learnt I thought I would post on this blog. Of cousre I'm not aiming to boast or deride other peoples views. That's not very well British is it?
So I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Chris. Whats yours? No seriously, it's quite daunting putting yourself out there in the 'blogosphere' (what an aweful word). Being there at the mercy of all those people who are ready to drop comments on any ideas or opinions you have. I imagine it could be quite soul crushing. There is only one way to find out isn't there!
Being English there are many things that have come apparent since I moved to the US three years ago.
1. My grammer and spelling is aweful. I can't help it. Im going to endevour to be as good as I can but if something annoys you, please let it slide.
2. Without realising, when placed in front of people I do not know or placed in a position of authority, I seems to up my politeness.
There are more observations to come but number 2 is the segway I have chosen to lead me into explaining my title.
A Word on Digital Photography.
It's so polite and non offensive isn't it. So very 'British'.
I was to put it plainly, bad at art. Drawing, painting etc I sucked at. However from a young age I loved photography (and fossils but thats another story). For a long time I had a point and shoot 35mm, followed by those wonderful APS camera that were so much easier to load and you got to pre-crop the photos before taking. Moving on from that about 4 years ago I was bought my first digital camera, an Olympus C460. It was lovely to have a digital camera. The freedom from the LCD screen and cost of film was immense. My love for photography began to bloom like a new growth which begins in spring. After 2 years I bought a Fujifilm Finepix S5200 (bridge camera).
With a full manual setting I explored the relationships between shutter speed and aperture. ISO speed and light levels. It was great. In 2 years I took over 6000 photos. Over 5000 in the last year alone.
However I got restless. When I was back visiting the North Yorkshire Moors with my friends from England. I took my Fujifilm and my friend Pete took his new entry level DSLR. Almost the same photos were taken, however the colour and quality of the DSLR made my photos look dry and blanched.
So here we are, 6 months later and a Nikon D40 is awaiting me. This friday I will make the final leap to the DSLR. As a way of helping me learn to use my camera and to tell others what I have learnt I thought I would post on this blog. Of cousre I'm not aiming to boast or deride other peoples views. That's not very well British is it?
1 comment:
Wahey first comment! Good first post Badders but let's see some of your piccies then!
Rob Desbois
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