Thus began Kartivity.
Posted: December 28th, 2009 | No Comments »I just got myself into photography. I took my dad's DSLR the Nikon D40x, quite shamelessly I might add, to teach myself a skill I see valuable down the line. I love looking at pictures. It doesn't matter who you are, as long as I know you and you have some memory shared, I'd love to see it. So it's in this effect that I started this blog specifically to showcase my explorations and discoveries into the world of Creativity.
To start off with I read some previews on dpreview.com about the camera i own called Nikon D40x. While searching for reviews, I came across this great site by Ken Rockwell on Photography.
How have I made all my best shots? By noticing something cool and taking a picture. The important part is noticing something cool. Taking the picture is easy. Photography is like golf. They are both fun, popular and require some equipment. Very few people can get others to pay them to do either one for the same reason. Each takes a lifetime of constant practice, getting better and better little by little. Most golfers play for decades and never hit a hole-in-one. Photography is more complex than golf. Why does anyone expect ever to make a perfect photograph?
Brilliance doesn't work on a schedule.
You see more if you're looking. The more you look, the more you see worth photographing. If you're not thinking and not looking you'll walk right past some of the most extraordinary opportunities. If you don't care about the subject then the results won't get beyond the basics. Care deeply and incredible things happen. Don't care and you are quickly forgotten.
A photograph is not about technique. A photograph is communicating something, be it an idea, concept, feeling, thought or whatever, to a total stranger. For a photograph to be effective you have to be clear with what you're communicating.
One cannot just keep doing the same thing. One needs constantly to innovate and discover new ways of doing what you've been doing. See and feel things from different angles and in different ways.
Not last nor least, you need to keep doing it with the same subject. The better you know your subject the better your results will be.
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