brighteyes-vanderde

I think both the problem and the great thing about digital photography is that absolutely anyone can go out and take photos, then very easily edit and upload them to places like Deviantart. It's great because there is very little money outlay, you can buy a decent camera for $200, and computer editing is free. Which means it's accessible to almost everyone. The problem is that it's universally accessible. It's very easy to simply take happy snaps, without any thought to composition, lighting and so on. So there are so many bad photos out there on Deviantart when they're actually not art. They're just someone with a camera taking photos. Tak

In my last journal I said that my camera was annoying because I have to photoshop almost all the photos. I now think it's actually a good thing. It requires me to have a second critical look at my photos, really look. And then see what I can do to improve the colours and what I could have done to improve the lighting, composition and whatnot. My ethos used to be: shoot now and fix it later. But I've realised that I need to actually take a good shot before it's actually worth fixing. And it actually requires a bit of thought and taking hold of oppurtunities as they arise - which is why I usually always have my camera with me. Which is anothe

I wish I didn't need to touch up every single photo I take for it to look good. My camera is just a point-and-shoot, so though the photos it takes are pretty good, they're not as good as I'd like. Unfortunately really good cameras aren't cheap. Having said that though, I enjoy playing around in post-production. Every time I take, choose and upload a photo to deviantart, I learn something about composition, or lighting, or camera technicalities. I'm just an amataur so most of my photos are crap - when I take a shot of a landscape or object, it takes several photos before the imagine in my head is on the LCD screen on my camera. The whole pro