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.
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| Hi! I'm a K100d. But you can call me Monty. |
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| 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.
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| Potaroos scavenging for food. |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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