How far I've come, part 2: The DSLR era

Hello all!

Welcome to my second installment of my photographic journey. I hope to get this out of the way so I can focus on new stuff. I was playing with the layout before and I think I'll settle on this.

Continuing on from my previous post, I felt I needed more control and better quality for my images, so I started looking at DSLRs. They were quite expensive at the time, I looked for the cheapest one which was the Pentax K100d. 

Hi! I'm a K100d. But you can call me Monty.

Sharp cutting grass!

Coming from a point and shoot, the images I got were amazing. The bigger sensor and better lenses provided better quality images that made me want to take more. I didn't know the technical reasons for the great images I was getting but I enjoyed this new world I was getting into. The depth of field was an amazing thing to discover. I learnt a lot of things by playing with settings and reading about various techniques in magazines.

Potaroos scavenging for food.

Trippin' ouuuut! 

 The DSLR was also an introduction into raw editing where I could fix or improve images taken to some degree without degrading the file like it would happen to JPEGs. Even if I made a mistake, there was always the comfort that I could start over if needed. 

A lot of my time was spent in post-shooting where I would edit the files and possibly do some quirky things in photoshop.

<---For example, in this image, I tried zooming out as the camera took the photo. A little trick I read in a Steve Parish book.

A day at the beach...

Making panoramas was a great thing to do too. I don't have any lenses that can tilt and shift to get panoramas but taking multiple images and stitching them up helped to get the same result.

Adelaide United fans getting excited after a goal against Melbourne Victory

Low light, camera ISO and noise was another area I learnt about but it took me a while to understand its impacts and how to control them. I remember looking at photos from my Sony P200 and noticed the degradation of some images as the ISO went up.

Ohhhh yeaaahhhh....the mooon. Beautiful. Bom Bom.
Chik, Chika Chika!

I often found that there were limitations to what I can capture, both in terms of hardware and my ability to overcome them. But the times you do get a grip on those limits, I often found some spectacular results.

It is getting late so I better stop here (though I notice that there is a save button). In part 3, it will be themed around photographing away from home.

Stay tuned!

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Nudelbutt's photostream on Flickr.

How far I've come, Part 1: Pointing and shooting

Hello netizens!


I wanted to do this last night but I had other important things to do.


In this post I'll be giving you a brief history of my time with photography. I'll try not to bore you too much, otherwise, there are a lot of pretty pictures to look at. It also lets me look back at what I've done.


So where to begin?


When I was little, I dappled with film cameras but they were nothing serious like an SLR; mainly disposables or point-and-shoot type.

Sony DSC-S70 in all its beefiness.

At the turn of the century, I got my first digital camera which was quite beefy and didn't hold many photos. This was a time where megapixels mattered and this camera had a fair amount of it for its time. Of course, they can pack more pixels and features into smaller devices such as phones (Nokia Pureview 808 has 41 million of them!).This costed as much as a mid-ranged DSLR of today. I can imagine though that DSLRs back then would have costed astronomical amounts.


I lost interest with this camera after a while. Probably because it was to big to lug around.




I can't remember if I got anymore cameras but a few years later, I got another camera that would get me seriously into photography.

My little red pocket partner.

It was another point and shoot. The Sony DSC-P200 and I got it in this colour. This also costed the same amount as an entry level DSLR back then but I think few shops stocked them like today. Or maybe because it was Darwin. I got this camera because of the high megapixel count and stylish metal body.










<These images and many others can be found on my deviantart page nudelbutt.deviantart.com>

Meerkats are probably my all time favourite animals!

These wallabies are trying to figure out what that guy is doing
and if he will feed them.

When I moved to Adelaide, I was a bit more active in my photography. I started off taking pictures of animals because I loved watching them. 


















I tend to take pictures of  animals or abstract things and not much of people. This is probably because of my shy personality and also I didn't know how to take pictures of people.

There is nothing more fun than having things fall onto you...

At this point, I mainly took photos so I can manipulate them in Photoshop. It was something fun to do and I was inspired by the magazines I bought. 
















Eventually I started playing with the manual controls of the camera. They weren't extensive but I enjoyed the control it gave me to do some interesting things. This kindled my desire to do more serious photography.

Welcome to Creamy Captures!

Hello! And welcome to Creamy Captures where we specialise in canned goods! (I kid)

My name is Clinton; a casual uni student and photographer living in Adelaide.

I am new to blogging but I hope I can express my daily passions through this and provide you guys who are viewing this something that is worth looking at! =)

My weapon of choice will be the Fujifilm X100.

Please enjoy what I have got on offer. I will post more soon!

Me. At this moment.