Whoever thinks patience isn't a virtue should just, you know, die now I guess...
Snail mail just seems so slow. But this morning I can officially stop with the anxiety attacks I get from getting anything in the mail. But either way, I can carry my camera around and whenever I can get a chance I can take some hopefully, beautiful photos.
I purchased a Sony Cybershot DSC-W610 14.1 MP (for those of you who know how significant or insignificant that is... yeah, fill me in)
And by all means, if you have any advice to help improve my photography please feel free to let me know!
Also, I want to show you all one of the photo editors I will be using through this journey. I have set up a photoshop.com account and with this account, I have access to their Adobe Photoshop Express Editor program. And oh my goodness, when it says Express, that's what it truly means! This program comes with options where you don't even need to have prior knowledge or experience with Photoshop to create a truly amazing photo.
This thing works wonders! Take from the transformation in my tree photo in my previous post (granted it wasn't all that great, yeah yeah yeah, but hey, let's focus on the context alright).
I also am going to begin my 30 trial of Photoshop Elements 10 (as seen above) next month, just so that I have enough time to figure out the ins and outs of Express Editor first. Notice in the bottom left-hand corner is my photoshop.com account link. Hopefully I can figure out how to set my settings to display my public albums so everyone will be able to review my progress; bare with me in the meantime.
No need to worry, I haven't forgotten to show you how I created my first transformation, that's coming soon, but here's a little preview picture of where I began:
So stick around for some photo fun!
Oh, and I wasn't serious about the dying earlier... no, please don't die.
Remember, when it's all said and done, there's more than what meets to eye...
Congratulations! You are going to love snapping away. It's one of my favorite past times and drives my girlfriend crazy. I have been known to turn an hour walk into an afternoon, as well as shooting 1000's of pictures and not even knowing it til I open the file.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to shooting. You can read books, look at books, and make notes all you want. In the end it is going to be practice, practice, practice that works it out. The books will be a great reference for why things don't work.
The automatic mode in your camera will make beautiful pictures. When you are comfortable and ready to experiment with one flower for a couple hours and take 100's of pictures that in essence are the same. The differences will be minute, light, shadow, background, foreground, ISO, and blah-blah-blahhhhh.
I have obsessed over perspective and exposure to nausea. It never ends and only gets worse when you know what you did is choppy, but no one else knows the perspective is off. It's such a rewarding obsession, it's infuriating and baffling as well. You'll nail a perfect shot, try to duplicate it, and drive yourself crazy. Good luck and welcome!
I apologize for the late response but thank you very much for your encouragement! Yes, I have been trying to take pictures of everything lately. I would spend hours online looking through photo galleries just trying to gain some inspiration for my next photos but I'm still new to all the photography "terminology". But like you said books should be useful so do you know any good reads to suggest that I look into?
DeleteCongratulations on your new camera! Sounds like the start of a new beginning. I am interested in learning more about the editing aspects of pictures being that I am not efficient in that subject area. But I have heard a lot about Photoshop, is it really one of the best photo editing program? I look forward to seeing your progress and wish you well on your journey.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback and good wishes! I'm beginning to love my camera but I'm still getting used to all the features and when and where to use them. Photoshop is a very highly praised program, so I will find out throughout my journey what's with all the hype...
DeleteI am always available if you want a little help or guidance through your camera. I shoot mostly with a point and shoot like what you purchased. I can bring mine along and show you some perspective,and approach. Go through some of mine and see if anything interests you.
ReplyDeletePhotoshop is such a powerful tool and so vast that all its features almost never get utilized by the users. There are incredible features that can take average photos to brilliant in a few clicks. For the average user, myself included, Paint and Microsoft Photo is generally all I need to make my pictures pop.
I look forward to your progression into the field of image augmentation. It's a fun and rewarding hobby that is both relaxing and exceedingly frustrating. Have a great weekend and let me know if you may want a little help.
Thank you, thank you! I really do appreciate the help and encouragement. Sadly, I've been having some very frustrating moments with this photography project mainly with Photoshop, hence the lack of posting on my blog. But I am still hopeful that I can do it and will get back on my feet very soon.
DeleteI am really excited to see you post tutorials on how you use Photoshop. I used to be super handy with graphic-y stuff like that, but I just haven't kept up with the improvements to the software, so I am back at square one!
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting. I must admit while I do sincerely enjoy working on "Photoshoping", lately I've been really frustrated by it and slightly discouraged =( I have the same fascination with graphic designing systems too, but I must say trying to relearn all that I used to know about photo editing is very tedious work. So please bare with me in the meantime; I will be posting shortly.
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