Rant

I’ve been thinking that by having a digital camera, it allows me to learn photography faster than ever. I was wrong. I was basically shooting blindly. I kept thinking that Photoshop can do wonder, and therefore I didn’t really doing photography; I was just taking pictures without thinking. I have been thinking in front of my PC, with Photoshop.

I was naive.

Just read a book on understanding exposure. It wakes me up. I suddenly aware that that photography is about exposure, not photo editing. Photo editing is just another art form. I love phototgraphy and also enjoying photo editing. But it’s time “treat” them separately.

I’ll be going for a photo shoot session tomorrow on flashlight photogtaphy, another area that caught my attention lately. I have a good set of photographic gear, not top of the line stuff, but enough to get things done effectively and creatively; but I’ve not fully utilize it capabilities yet.

I’m merely a junior apprentice in photography. Still have a long way to go, before I can call myself a photographer. I hope I’m not too late…

Read a book called 100 Ways to Take Better Lanscape Photographs, and I realize that how lack of knowledge I am in the photographers world. I have so much more to learn to be a good photographer. I’m glad that I picked up this book from the library today; I cannot depend on Photoshop all the time.

The meat is photography, Photoshop is just the ingredient.

I found almost all the pictures I took recently require exposure correction in Photoshop. Why, I have been asking myself, camera mulfunction again?! And guess what, I have accidentally set my camera’s exposure compensation to -2!!!

Just signed up for a flashlight photography course, to be started this Friday. Hopefully can learn some new tricks and techniques to improve my flashlight photography skill… very excited.