Sho Nuff! ;D
Do the best with what you have is the name of the game! Like the old saying, ‘a good craftsman never blames his tools’. If you feel like doing photography just let that feeling guide you! You’ll learn. I’m self taught and have learned by just shooting a lot of photos along with the couple books I’ve picked through. That’s the great thing in the digital age, no processing cost just to view your results, so shoot away!
“Practice is the best of all instructions.” - Aristotle
“Students were taught by doing.” - Minor White
Ha ha ha. Don’t ever care what others think, caring about the outcome is a weight and stifles creativity. But if you wanted to impress me, ha ha ha, find the stillness and see pristine… “Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.” - “Vision without association - pristine vision.” - Minor White
Anyway, like Hitchens said, “It doesn’t matter what my friends think of me, it is far more important what I think of them!” ;D
Exactly! I’ve seen plenty of great shots from disposable camera’s. I think people still do pinhole photography too and it’s ultra basic. Found this pinhole article for the digi’s!
As to learning, there was definitely a learning curve for me. Learning to ‘see’ was the trick in my experience. By that, I mean learning to see like a camera and film (now a digital sensor). I could see ‘nice’ pictures with my eyes, but getting anything like that on film was another story!
“Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.” - Minor White
I’ve noticed a lot of the digi sensors these days in the point-n-shoots do well in low light. Seems to vary from camera to camera and even year to year, but they’ve gotten much better. Mine does well and its 10+ years old. You’ll just be getting more light from a longer exposure time so a tripod or a place to sit it (many make their own bean bag) will be needed to keep from blurring the photo.
I wish I could do that. Tongue But right now I don’t have the time nor money.
A G3 sells for an avg. of $29 on ebay the last 7 days (searched ‘canon g3’). I would say it’s almost a 1 trick pony camera, but that would be selling it short. I really can’t capture ‘action shots’ with it at all and the other issues mentioned in reviews (digital zoom 5.8x to 14x makes picture quality awful, regular 4x zoom is great). It is limited to an f8 aperture and very outdated megapixel wise, but for ebay or yoyo’s or other light box items it does well due to canons sensor, features, and the all glass optics. But, for $50 you might could buy a new camera that would well outshine one this old?
I really like these…
Those are great! Both versions. The Cliff does seem to be the stand out! The watercolor effect works great on the splash design.
My best so far is this pic…
Awesome pic and colors! That green really pops.
Some other good quotes to meditate on if you like photography.
"“The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.” - Minor White
“…innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.”
- Minor White
OMG this is horribly long… so to paraphrase Twain and be done… “I’m sorry this post is so long, but I did not have time to make it shorter.” ;D