Photography
Blog posts in my Photography category
While I have ideas of the sort of photographer I’d like to be and photos I might one day be able to take, at the end of the day I just enjoy making a good looking photo. I don’t do it for a career and I don’t think I’d ever want to - to me photography should be relaxing, stress-free - to do it whenever you want to and when you have time. I don’t take a lot of photos - some months I’d be lucky to take a dozen. Often I’ll only take one photo of a subject, to challenge myself. I feel guilty about using a digital camera because it is convenient, and digital photography seems to have a lower threshold for being a good photographer than say 30 years ago. It can be easy to just rely on the camera’s automatic exposure and focussing functions and not taking the time and care to actually select an exposure and focus you want to achieve; those are elements of photography you need to think about and not just leave up to the camera to work out “technically” the best exposure/focus because it is art! Technology should just support the making of art, not take over it.
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