Well I promised a few posts ago to share a video clip I really enjoyed, and finally I'm getting around to doing that. It really spoke to me, and to have someone like Zack Arias admit to occasional loss of confidence really made me feel better about my own self flagellation... anyway why keep talking, have a look for yourself. If you're on a slower connection like me then press play, then press pause. Let it load for a while, then it'll play straight through.Or if it really won't play very well watch the original here...
Pretty cool huh! Also very timely for me, as I'm working on building a photography website, is his website critiques which of course confirmed I'm not quite on the right track!! OK but probably what I'm doing is appropriate for the market here.... But do have a look at the critiques, they are not only really informative, but Zack and Meg are really funny! I'm talking about Zacks wife Meg there of course, not me (Over here Meg and I would call each other "yaca" (yah-thah") which means namesake, to save confusion...).
One of the points Zack made was that when he opened some of the sites (he used different words of course) he couldn't tell what they did, what sort of photographer they were, so how was someone going to know whether or not they should hire them? This question of what sort of photographer came up a few months ago for me. I have oddly for some reason thought that like many of my fellow mwac's (mom with a camera) that I was a child and family photographer. I offered to take some shots of this family for practice (and thank heavens not for a hefty fee) but when we got out there it suddenly occured to me that despite fine fine training from QCCC I actually hadn't taken a family photo in a long time, so why on earth did I think I was a child and family photographer?! And I knew I was no Tara Whitney... But it was good practice...
So similar issues come up building a website though it's interesting to see a style and type of photography emerging despite myself. Sometimes I can see such a distinct improvement, and other times I discover stuff I like so much from a few years back that despite the lack of technical know how I had then I wonder in despair if I've actually gone backwards!
Talking of technical know how this cracked me up...
This is Richard from the fabulous Red Leaf taking a workshop at the recent Beyond get together. Desiree who took this inspired shot says to tell all of you they (redleaf and their photography, textures or workshops) are well worth checking out...
Finally I found the first photo of this post deep in the archives, and it has the most wonderful grain! It's from the D70 and I've looked at the exif data, but I'm still at a loss as to how I achieved that... This is basically sooc (straight out of the camera) with no work done, it was shot as a jpeg., though my save for web has altered the grain a little (never mind for these purposes). What I did have to do was take out all the spots from all the muck on the sensor! oh my word! No wonder I liked the 50mm f/1.8 lens so much back then, I'm sure going below an aperture of 2.8 was the only way to hide those damn things!!
Best go now, coming up soon will be pretty scenic pictures of Fiji and the kids. Because we haven't had enough of those lately and it will give a break from all this navel gazing...
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