I am SO excited.
I have just booked a photography course for the next two days to go and learn the basics of photography and then to go out and learn how to take better photographs. All in my favourite part of London, Southbank.
The photographs I have seen from the tutor are amazing and he seems to have the same style of photography that I want to be able to do.
I don't like taking normal photographs. I like taking photographs of unusual things, or not even unusual things, but what would normally be boring things but making them look interesting with different light, backgrounds or focuses. I don't like taking portrait photos of people looking directly at the camera. I prefer to catch them unaware as you capture real emotion that way. As soon as you say "Hey, look at me", peoples expressions change as they stare into your lens. Some embarrassed and not knowing where to look, wishing I would go away and others loving the lens and making all sorts of faces.
I've never been one to read a manual. Since buying a camera, I've been too impatient to sit and learn the technicalities of it. I prefer to learn by experimenting, which is what I have been doing for the past 2 years but recently I've had less and less time and my camera has been sat gathering dust.
I thank the various people who have tried to explain what the shutter speed and aperture etc are and how to calculate them... numbers and I do not mix well. But I appreciate the help and I did try to listen... it just didn't sink in. You all gave me lots of motivation to experiment though :)
I'm hoping now that I have a little time and a renewed motivation to try to capture a photograph without doing any post-processing, the next two days will further my knowledge so that I can finally understand what I'm doing and take a couple of pictures and get what I want instead of taking hundreds of pictures at lots of different settings.
What you can do with a flash amazes me. I am not interested in using a flash to light up my subject. I'm interested in learning how the flash can effect the subject and make different affects on objects/lighting/scenery.
I have a plan to take more random courses here and there, when I can, to try to learn as much as I can so that eventually, I can take a photograph and know exactly what I'm doing and capture the image and upload it without having to put it in Lightroom to "make it look better".
Anyone can be a photographer. I saw a photograph on Twitter which was a photograph used on the front page of a newspaper, taken by a spectator of the Olympics with his Iphone. I don't want to be just a photographer. I guess I want to be an artist. To create images that aren't like anyone elses' and that people wonder where and how I did it. It's going to take a long time but it's something I've wanted to do for a long time..and I'll get there eventually... hopefully... and yes, I know everyone says that... Personal goal. ;)
This leads me on to my question about Art. I have never understood Art. Who judges that a piece of Art is worth millions of pounds? I may like it, but you may not. So how can it be decided that one piece of art is different to another?
Anyway I better go to bed and wake up bright and early to get upto London to start my journey into the art world :)
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