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Just wanted to say hi, and thank you for accepting me.
I was shooting on auto on my old Konica Minolta 5D until it died in late 2018 whilst on honeymoon in the Maldives, I looked at my photos post holiday and felt dissapointed at the colour saturation and felt that I never wanted to waste an opportunity again.
I decided to learn how to use a camera properly and spent a day with a friend of mine who was a portrait photographer and she allowed me to use both her crop sensor and full frame camera, I soon realised that her full frame was at that stage way beyond what I required or what my brain could cope with. I decided to pay that little bit extra for a crop sensor and invested in a Canon 80D and since then have not looked back.
Auto what's auto, oh its that switch that I no longer use now... I have attended workshops and now spend hours of my time planning where and what I want to shoot. I plot my visits with sunrise and sunset, tide charts etc, I have found a love for landscape and seascape photography esp long exposure. I can regularily be found on the beach with my flask. I have even gone to the extreme of buying a camper van just so I can get to the beautiful places I want to experience and not have to stay in hotels which is costing me fortune just for the alarm to go off at 04:30, or the adjacent rooms being hoovered at 11am when I have nipped back for a quick snooze before I go out again for blue hour and sunset.
I prefer to spend hours in situ, out in the fresh air getting my photos right in camera with my filters rather than hours sat at a laptop putting them right, that said I have in the last 2 weeks dowloaded PS & LR as I am now shooting RAW and completely seeing the virtues of doing so. PS & LR are going to take a while to learn me thinks. If anyone has any suggestions or hints and tips then please send them my way they will be greatly appreciated.
I have already got so much inspiration from reading the threads and posts on this forum, thank you once again Happy New Year and thanks for accepting me.
I was shooting on auto on my old Konica Minolta 5D until it died in late 2018 whilst on honeymoon in the Maldives, I looked at my photos post holiday and felt dissapointed at the colour saturation and felt that I never wanted to waste an opportunity again.
I decided to learn how to use a camera properly and spent a day with a friend of mine who was a portrait photographer and she allowed me to use both her crop sensor and full frame camera, I soon realised that her full frame was at that stage way beyond what I required or what my brain could cope with. I decided to pay that little bit extra for a crop sensor and invested in a Canon 80D and since then have not looked back.
Auto what's auto, oh its that switch that I no longer use now... I have attended workshops and now spend hours of my time planning where and what I want to shoot. I plot my visits with sunrise and sunset, tide charts etc, I have found a love for landscape and seascape photography esp long exposure. I can regularily be found on the beach with my flask. I have even gone to the extreme of buying a camper van just so I can get to the beautiful places I want to experience and not have to stay in hotels which is costing me fortune just for the alarm to go off at 04:30, or the adjacent rooms being hoovered at 11am when I have nipped back for a quick snooze before I go out again for blue hour and sunset.
I prefer to spend hours in situ, out in the fresh air getting my photos right in camera with my filters rather than hours sat at a laptop putting them right, that said I have in the last 2 weeks dowloaded PS & LR as I am now shooting RAW and completely seeing the virtues of doing so. PS & LR are going to take a while to learn me thinks. If anyone has any suggestions or hints and tips then please send them my way they will be greatly appreciated.
I have already got so much inspiration from reading the threads and posts on this forum, thank you once again Happy New Year and thanks for accepting me.
