10 years ago I had my first SLR experience, this experience can be summed up as follows:
- it used film
- i didn't know what i was doing
- my photos were bad (if they came out at all!)
- i quickly became exasperated
- cost of printing my bad photos became very expensive
- photography was something i didn't think i would ever master.
- 7 years later I was given a great little digital point and shoot for Christmas.
- I started taking pictures.
- I accidently dropped my precious little camera and smashed it to bits, oops!
- I got myself another SLR, digital this time, most importantly that meant:
- no film
- a 'delete' button!
- I read the manual.
- The buttons still meant nothing.
- I took a few pictures.
- They were bad, underexposed, overexposed, blurred.
ARRGGHHHH! Why could everyone else take beautiful pictures and not me?
I have a long way to go before i can call myself a 'photographer' but I'm determined to enjoy to journey there!
My 365 project is part of that journey.
The burning desire to take a good photo was building and with time on my hands and lucky enough to be living in an island style paradise I took it upon myself to practise. Even if all my pictures were bad, surely with practise they had to get better some time?
- The pictures were bad for a long time.
- Then every now and again I'd load them onto my computer and find one that could be 'passable' as ok.
- Then more often more pictures were better.
- In fact some I was quite proud of.
Now I am enjoying all the mistakes I make, I learn from every 'bad' photo and discover new ways of taking my next attempt... I AM OBSESSED in my mission to take a 'great' photo!
Oh and I have a new love of film! My plastic fantastic camera was cheap as chips, never ever takes a perfect picture BUT creates dreamily beautiful prints.
I have a long way to go before i can call myself a 'photographer' but I'm determined to enjoy to journey there!
My 365 project is part of that journey.
