Captured4Ever A Camera is for Life, Not just Christmas

This picture was taken around the time I really started to get into photography. I cant remember the exact year but it was close to 1995.

Even tho I had owned cameras for years before this and have various pictures going back to the 80’s taken by me on camera’s I owned, I was only just starting to use cameras more and more for fun around this time, not just when on holidays or special occasions.

That was until one day I went and got a BnW film and tried it out. Looking back on this now I need to force myself to take more pictures in BnW as it does make you focus on the way light falls and the different contrast in a picture. A different style of composing a picture as what looks good in colour wont always make a good BnW picture.

Before it clicked that I liked this photography thing, I had looked at and read up on photography (yes I do read) and it came accross some wise words which I thought I understood at the time but only really understood around the year 2000. Its strange how 7 words can be important

The subject is irrelevant - Photograph the light

I can see when I mention this to people, the look they give me must have been the one I had when I first read those words, they dont understand it fully as all they see are the subject and cant grasp that the subject is nothing without the right light.

A picture can be good when taken by lifting a camera and pressing the shutter. But moving say a person to the left 5deg will make the light fall over the face a different way and enhanced the picture to make it a great picture, yet the subject is the same person. It was the light that made the picture better. This is the same for landscapes, waiting for the right light, be it the sunrise, sun setting or just the sun moving behind some cloud. Its the light that can make or break a photo.

Its all about the light. Now all say with me…. I see the light………

But hang on, is that all there is to photography, Noooooo. This is a rule to help, it’s not the holy grail of answers and does not improve all photographs but helps. It’s one of the many rules which you should think about when taking a picture.

And on that final note I am off out to try and get some BnW pictures.

Well this is the start of what will be my last go at maintaining a blog/photoblog. What better picture to start with than the moon, taken with a Canon 30D with a Sigma 50-500 lens attached. Using the 30D with the crop factor of the non full-frame sensor (not gone that extra mile and got a 5D yet….). It works out at a real world 800mm focal length. Who need telescopes……

Its not a stunning shot but just seemed to be the best picture for the new start at this blog thang….

In the coming posts I will try and include pictures from all my future travels as well as digging into my archive of old travel photos, also review the software and hardware that I use to aid me with my photography, along with the general posts about the world, you know, the usual, If i wont the lottery I would………..

You can contact me via the contact page. (that’s if I have got round to updating it yet)

oh and I wish I could take credit for the blog theme but alas I cant, its from here. A blog I will keep my eye on in the future for updates and ideas on themes and general info on wordpress.

Millsey