In some sudden fit of temporary insanity, Liz gave her blessing–nay, encouragement!–to the purchase of an all-Mike camera, partly for tooling around Deutschland during the times where I don’t get to be part of her elite viticultural circle, and mostly for trying to redevelop a long-dormant hobby.
I spent most of today going through the manual and taking a lot of really, really awful shots (digital is truly a godsend, since I don’t have to spend anything to find out how much my SLR technique has suffered since, oh, 1995-ish)… But a couple turned out surprisingly well for day-zero monkeying around:
The one of Julia in the shadow/sunbeam particularly amazes me; she looks uncannily like a certain portrait of JFK. Maybe at some point I’ll get some of my game back, and shots like that will be skill instead of luck.
- Mood:artistic
- Music:Radiohead - “Optimistic”
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skill = luck + hard work.
According to my more photographically-inclined friends, it is about 20% location/subject, and the other 80% is actually luck anyway.
Well, yes, but it would be nice if I could hold the darn thing steady enough to not have crazy amounts of camera shake, or also perhaps if I had more of a handle on the whole metering/exposure thing. I really want to get away from being dependent on the automated shooting modes.
I know that this requires practice; I’m actually looking forward to that part, oddly enough.
The goal is to improve my ratio of crap-to-good to be better than the 100:1 it was the other day. (Granted that most of it was just shooting random junk as I worked my way through the manual, but still… They were BAD shots of random junk.)
I really like that picture of Julia! Very, very nice.
(I was going to ask what SLR you got, but then visited Flickr and it told me.
We’ll have to compare notes sometime; my D70 is my baby, but I’d be curious to see how it compares to the Digital Rebel.
Have fun with the new toy!!