Introduction to Photography Tales
July 19th 2006 04:23
Welcome to Photography Tales, the latest blog on the Orble Network. The market out there for prosumer (professional-consumer) digital cameras is ever-booming with new technological developments every year seeing the existing prices drop. Photography, especially digital photography, is becoming an increasingly accessible and affordable hobby, and we see new galleries and portfolios emerge on the Internet with self-professed photographers sharing their creations with the rest of the world. Film however, is far from being forgotten, with professional photographers and artists alike celebrating the ‘old’ medium.
Criticisms have arisen surrounding the rapid introduction of consumer digital cameras. For as little as a few hundred dollars, you can pick yourself up an easy to use point-and-shoot camera, and with the automatic settings, snap up a few pictures of flowers, or your cat, and call yourself a photographer. While I do not want to reintroduce the snooty juries of the Paris Salon, I believe that there is some value in earning myself the title of ‘photographer’ before I abuse it.
We are at a very exciting age where we photography enthusiasts are straddled between the old world and the new, the traditional mediums and techniques of film and the transformational technological advancements of digital and image editing software. We get to see the best of both worlds and we have the opportunity to learn both as long as we choose to take it.
I started digital photography in high school as my selected medium for Visual Arts. With my teachers trained only in drawing and painting, I was left to flounder my way around it on my own. From the onset, I knew my passion would lie in portrait photography, but as many of my friends were camera-shy, I began to pose for myself with the aid of the self-timer and a tripod. I gathered a small fan-base online and supported myself with print sales of my works.
In 2004, I took a break from photography and through my contacts in the industry, began to model for artists and photographers in Sydney and Canberra. I was exposed to a world so far removed from what I had grown accustomed to in working alone. I worked closely with my photographers and gained considerable insight into their idiosyncratic working styles and methods.
Through this blog, I will share with you my personal accounts and experiences working on both sides of the camera—photographer and model, online art communities, and the photography out there that inspires me to create. On occasion, I will also reveal a few of the projects I am working on in my own pursuit of capturing beauty through a lens.
Criticisms have arisen surrounding the rapid introduction of consumer digital cameras. For as little as a few hundred dollars, you can pick yourself up an easy to use point-and-shoot camera, and with the automatic settings, snap up a few pictures of flowers, or your cat, and call yourself a photographer. While I do not want to reintroduce the snooty juries of the Paris Salon, I believe that there is some value in earning myself the title of ‘photographer’ before I abuse it.
We are at a very exciting age where we photography enthusiasts are straddled between the old world and the new, the traditional mediums and techniques of film and the transformational technological advancements of digital and image editing software. We get to see the best of both worlds and we have the opportunity to learn both as long as we choose to take it.
I started digital photography in high school as my selected medium for Visual Arts. With my teachers trained only in drawing and painting, I was left to flounder my way around it on my own. From the onset, I knew my passion would lie in portrait photography, but as many of my friends were camera-shy, I began to pose for myself with the aid of the self-timer and a tripod. I gathered a small fan-base online and supported myself with print sales of my works.
In 2004, I took a break from photography and through my contacts in the industry, began to model for artists and photographers in Sydney and Canberra. I was exposed to a world so far removed from what I had grown accustomed to in working alone. I worked closely with my photographers and gained considerable insight into their idiosyncratic working styles and methods.
Through this blog, I will share with you my personal accounts and experiences working on both sides of the camera—photographer and model, online art communities, and the photography out there that inspires me to create. On occasion, I will also reveal a few of the projects I am working on in my own pursuit of capturing beauty through a lens.
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