A Picture Can be Worth a Thousand Words
13 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
in Bucket LIst Tags: photography, summer bucket list
Lego Camera!!!
I feel like I’ve gone back to school. I studied tonight. But there was a difference…I was uncharacteristically excited to do it! I picked up my photography book today, and after running errands and walking Zoe after work, I decided it was time for me to start the first project on my summer bucket list: Teach myself photography and complete a project.
Now, I’m fully prepared that my “final” won’t be all that glamorous, because it’s going to be difficult to teach myself all the fine aspects of the art. But hopefully this will kick-off a long-term process where I continuously improve my skill and do more projects. I haven’t chosen one-perhaps it will feature Zoe, who I’m sure I’m going to drive crazy as I force her to be my test subject. I’m a little apprehensive about how she’ll do-she hates my tiny little point-and-shoot camera…I don’t know what she’ll do with my mom’s bigger, more sophisticated camera (pretty sure it’s a point and shoot as well, but way cooler than mine. All of a sudden I realized there’s more descriptions to cameras other than “Cannon” or “Nikon.”)
The first book that I’ve chosen to help me on my journey is Complete Digital Photography by Ben Long. I’m only a few chapters in, but I think that it’s a good choice for a total beginner like me. I took a photography class in high school, and about the only things I remember are Bird’s Eye and Worm’s Eye view, and what the shutter speed is. This book starts at the total beginning-general directions on operating a camera and how your eye perceives scenes compared to how a camera does….that kind of thing. He does a good job of throwing in pieces of advice for actual picture taking so that it doesn’t seem so technical and tedious right away either, which has a tendency to bore me.
I’m really excited to get my mom’s camera-I played around with mine a little but I think I have one of the “inexpensive point-and-shoot” cameras that he doesn’t go into much detail about because there isn’t much detail to be given. It serves my purposes for being with friends and silly little things, but I’m glad my mom is willing to let me use her cool Cannon camera. I think once I get hers I’ll be a little bit more into the technical aspects of my tool. Hopefully I’ll get through the book at a decent pace, but this summer might get a little hectic. I promise myself though that I will complete this summer bucket list if it’s the last thing I do! Ok, not really, because then it would just be a regular bucket list and I’m not ready for that.
Speaking of bucket lists, I read an article about a 15 year old girl in the UK who has terminal cancer. She wrote a real bucket list and is blogging about it on her site, Alice’s Bucket List. She sounds like a courageous young lady, and just thought I’d share this with you as a reminder to do the things you want to do before you can’t. You don’t know when you won’t be able to anymore.
With that, hopefully I’ll have some photos to share soon….we shall see!
Until then,
B
