I've always enjoyed looking at photographs, appreciating what goes into taking a good one. Apart from messing around with point-and-shoot digitals though I'd never experienced photography for myself.
Around Christmas i was on the laptop, just randomly checking out some pictures on flickr when i stumbled across this, a picture by an amazing photographer named Trey Ratcliff, otherwise known as "Stuck in Customs". I think you'll agree how good it is.
It's a HDR photo, or High Dynamic Range. The way it looks like a painting is captured by combining photographs of the same scene but at different exposures. In other words, the same picture, taken several times at different levels of brightness. Combining these photos into one captures all the colours, highlights and lowlights from each and puts the into one picture. This particular picture was the first HDR to hang in the Smithsonian, and i don't even think it's his best.
But anyway. It inspired me to find out more about the technique, and photography in general. I spent weeks looking through blogs and tutorials all about different elements of photography; techniques, equipment, styles etc. I became totally engrossed by it all...
And blew over £500 on a half decent camera and basic equipment. Hmm. Impulsive? Yep. But i was sure i wanted to get into it.
I dont advise everyone to do this if they're thinking of getting into photography, use what you have available to you. And only splash out if you think its something you'll genuinely enjoy. Even if you can splash out like me, you'll soon find that £500 is nothing in photography terms. Fancy a middle of the range DSLR camera and a middle of the range lens? Bye bye £1500.
So i had my camera. I had some basic knowledge about what to do. Now i had to take some pictures.
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