keavaa
26-07-2014, 7:36pm
Hiya,
My name is Chris and my journey with a camera started when I was five. My dad gave my a Chinon Single Reflex film camera with a 50mm prime lens. I found interest in taking photos just of every day things, plants, animals and landscapes. That camera served me faithfully for a really long time, until I replaced it with a Nikon F100 which I had for about 3 years. Having a zoom lens was like discovering fire. As much as it gave me options, it also made me a bit lazy. I didn't hunt for just the right spot or angle as much as before.
Then I entered the digital camera arena with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 which I had for around 11 years up until a few months ago when I bought a Nikon D3300.
I still focus on plants, animals and landscapes. I do try my hand at most things photographically, part of a learning and understanding process. Sometimes results are good, others quite bad. With no one to discuss my passion with, I wasn't able to know why results were the way they were. That's something I hope I will find here in due course.
While I have owned a camera for most of my life, I honestly don't know what my skill level is. I see something, I take a photo and more of than not, I like what I captured.
The extent of my post processing basically is just cropping. I spend so much time in front of a computer in my day-to-day job, spending more time at a computer post-processing images is just something I loathe doing.
Thats about it I think.
Cheers,
Chris
My name is Chris and my journey with a camera started when I was five. My dad gave my a Chinon Single Reflex film camera with a 50mm prime lens. I found interest in taking photos just of every day things, plants, animals and landscapes. That camera served me faithfully for a really long time, until I replaced it with a Nikon F100 which I had for about 3 years. Having a zoom lens was like discovering fire. As much as it gave me options, it also made me a bit lazy. I didn't hunt for just the right spot or angle as much as before.
Then I entered the digital camera arena with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 which I had for around 11 years up until a few months ago when I bought a Nikon D3300.
I still focus on plants, animals and landscapes. I do try my hand at most things photographically, part of a learning and understanding process. Sometimes results are good, others quite bad. With no one to discuss my passion with, I wasn't able to know why results were the way they were. That's something I hope I will find here in due course.
While I have owned a camera for most of my life, I honestly don't know what my skill level is. I see something, I take a photo and more of than not, I like what I captured.
The extent of my post processing basically is just cropping. I spend so much time in front of a computer in my day-to-day job, spending more time at a computer post-processing images is just something I loathe doing.
Thats about it I think.
Cheers,
Chris