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My First Favorites
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"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do."- Bob Ross
The beginning of my photography adventure, journey, and quest started with an owl, on a cold February night in 2015. My grandfather planted a tree in our backyard thirty years ago.
It grew into a giant. Inside that giant lived our owl friend. I was walking in from getting the mail and I took a photo with my iPhone 4.
I got nothing. No owl. Not even the tree was visible in the pitch black.
I told my dad, not expecting him to have much to say about it, but he did.
He told me to go to our local camera store and just look around. "See what they have for a couple hundred dollars," my dad said. He helped with some of the payment. I'm still grateful.
I had a Canon Rebel in mind, but the photographer who helped me steered me towards used Canon 40D because the Canon 40D has two dials. He said those two dials were very useful for someone who is a techy but has no experience with a camera.
So, I bought it for $250. And I bought a lens for $150. And a tripod for $120. And and and, I was happy for a moment.
I went home and took some photos in the snow that came that weekend. I was instantly awful. But I knew to set up the dials for shutter speed (which was obvious physics) and aperture (which I didn't understand).
I got some great photos I still have today.
I was enthralled! I had no frame of reference for good photography but I loved my photos anyway. I loved being able to do art without having to use my hands for the hard part. The satisfying click of the shutter did the hard part.
I had a gaming computer, so I had everything I needed to edit these photos. I could take a photo and put it on my computer and make it brighter and more colorful.
I got into HDR and editing at the same time I was learning the basics of the exposure triangle, composition, and camera technology.
So, I grew with all of those at the same time. I look back on these now and remember that growth.
After discovering my initial talent and building upon it, I bought a Sony a6000 later that year. Three years later I bought my current camera, the Sony A7iii.
These photos here are the photos I took in my first two years of photography.
I love these photos.
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