I'm going to stop and have a tantrum for a second

[babyslime]

I swear to god, the next time someone says, "You must have a nice camera" or some variant thereof, I am going to hit them with my shoe

Comments

[ayanamisama]

I've been reading your journal for a long time now, and I know you've switched cameras a few times while I've been reading. Your photos have always been so lovely. It's nice to see someone who has a talent that's so developed.

[florassecret]

It's so true what they say about the person behind the lens, as LOL I have her old D50. I cannot do what she did with her old camera. I remember my walk through tutorial on how to use the camera and I was so confuzzled after that. LOL I had to slow down and read alot of what she had talked about.

[ayanamisama]

I went and looked up the user manual for my camera (I have a Kodak EasyShare Z650) and I can't for the life of me figure out how to use the manual settings. LOL I'm going to need to get "Photography for Dummies" or something.

[florassecret]

Her camera never came with the english manual and I'm pretty useless with Spanish. I do remember a few things, like panning and scanning when you're trying to capture a moving target. I can do that now. I think that was the only part of the tutorial that stuck.

[imbroglio]

I have a friend who spent thousands on a digital SLR camera, and I know she loves taking pictures, but her pictures always just look ... well ... normal to me. She definitely doesn't have that natural flair for it, and I think that's way more important than the camera she is. It's not what you've got, it's how you use it. :)

HAI random internet lurker here

[lifeisstatic]

I always assumed that my pictures came out shitty because of my camera. I have the Kodak EasyShare C713. My pictures just lack that pop I see in your pictures. Then again all I know is point and shoot. Where did you learn to take pictures? Any good web sites you can direct me to? I am also getting a new camera soon. The kids broke mine. I can't see the pictures I take on the screen but they load on to the computer just fine. Water+camera=bad. What camera would you suggest in the 150 price range?

Re: HAI random internet lurker here

[babyslime]

Unfortunately I'm out of the loop on P&S, but I know both the Powershots and the Coolpix lines are really amazing for the price and relative size.
As for learning: practice practice practice. Read books on light theory, how your camera functions and intricately understand the parts... at least, that's what helped me. I'm a tech head, I have to understand the "why" before I can even attempt the "how", this is why off-camera flash is bugging me. I need to understand the intricacies of how THAT light works before I can experiment with it. This is just my personal neurotic mess, but it works. :) It just takes longer...

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[beate73]

LOL I too have a bit of a hard time with the off camra light - why I try to stay away from using any light aside from natural light... But lately I've been trying my hand at two lamps and following the shadows. So yeah, trying to take the why I've been reading up on to tranfer into the how.

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[mix3d3m0ti0n5]

canon and nikons for P&S just like babs said.

We just upgraded to the DSLR. Hubby still prefers the Canon A85. I killed a Canon S1 (the sensor is dead/dying), but I learned to take some really neat photos using the manual settings.

Once you got to SLR you have to almost relearn everything. I wanted SLR because I like close ups and the autofocusing (even manual) on the upgrading S series for Canon wasn't cutting it for me.

[spillthelight]

Cor... Everytime I see one of your photos, the camera is the last thing I think about...

You do need to write a book...

[onelargecat]

Before I got my D300, I always kind of liked it when people I was shooting asked me about my camera and realized it was "just" a D70. They could hardly claim that it was my camera taking better photos than theirs, since they had something newer and better.

[babyslime]

LOL!
That question bugged me even back before I started seriously getting into photography and just thought I could sometimes take a nice picture. My best accidents came out of film, though. Expensive accidents...