I was asked by Bob this question: "How do I find time to do all my photography?" I guess he also met 'while working'? The answer may be a long story, but it is simple: I always ensure that I find time for something that I enjoy the most. I will ensure that I manage "what I have to do" in a way that I enjoy it as well.
This all started with me one day getting my first digital camera and knowing that photos did not cost me anything unless I developed them—then I married my camera for life. This means I carry my camera with me to any event, to all my hiking or biking trips, to any trip I take, and even to work. I have the luxury of being a passenger in the car because I and my husband work at the same place. We save on gas and have one less vehicle to pollute on the road. We also have the luxury of driving along roads and highways that are close to parks, farmlands, or wilderness, which means we always see some animal activity from the side of the road.
Now, finding time to do the photography—since I carry my camera all the time, anything that is of interest to me I take photos of. Other times, we visit local parks during weekends, evenings, or our days off. Outdoor time is the best time we have, so why not be there? There are things in life that are more important than others, and being in nature is much better than watching TV.
Lastly, for every trip or event I attend, I take many, many photos. Two reasons: one, I like to capture every moment, and two, I am still learning, so there is a lot of experimental work going on. Lately, I have been having lots of luck, meaning fewer bad photos. My photo gallery is constantly growing in size. I have over fifty thousand photos now, and I can easily take 500–1000 photos per day trip. Too much is not good to keep and, I guess, not to share. I don't do much with it; I usually give it out to friends and family. I don't print them either, which may be because I don't like holes in the walls; however, blogging lets me put as many holes as I want on my blog screen, so this is how some of my photography finally made it to some parts of the world through my blog.
Currently, I am hoping to finish the web design, in my mind, of myonlyphoto web site. And I am also hoping that the days will have more than 24 hours per day and more than 7 days a week.
Today I got a photo of the roosters, which I took on my last trip to African Lion Safari, Cambridge—the same trip I had photographed baboons climbing the cars. Well, these guys reminded me of when I was little and was always chased by the white rooster on my parents farm. I was chased all the time, and they almost jumped on my head. There were also white geese, and they were giants, and they chased me as well. I was about 5–6 years old then. Okay, let's add more to the list; dogs were after me too. And chickens too, but only when I had food. So things reversed in life for me; now I chase the animals with my camera, but believe me, I am harmless.
~ Anna
This all started with me one day getting my first digital camera and knowing that photos did not cost me anything unless I developed them—then I married my camera for life. This means I carry my camera with me to any event, to all my hiking or biking trips, to any trip I take, and even to work. I have the luxury of being a passenger in the car because I and my husband work at the same place. We save on gas and have one less vehicle to pollute on the road. We also have the luxury of driving along roads and highways that are close to parks, farmlands, or wilderness, which means we always see some animal activity from the side of the road.
Now, finding time to do the photography—since I carry my camera all the time, anything that is of interest to me I take photos of. Other times, we visit local parks during weekends, evenings, or our days off. Outdoor time is the best time we have, so why not be there? There are things in life that are more important than others, and being in nature is much better than watching TV.
Lastly, for every trip or event I attend, I take many, many photos. Two reasons: one, I like to capture every moment, and two, I am still learning, so there is a lot of experimental work going on. Lately, I have been having lots of luck, meaning fewer bad photos. My photo gallery is constantly growing in size. I have over fifty thousand photos now, and I can easily take 500–1000 photos per day trip. Too much is not good to keep and, I guess, not to share. I don't do much with it; I usually give it out to friends and family. I don't print them either, which may be because I don't like holes in the walls; however, blogging lets me put as many holes as I want on my blog screen, so this is how some of my photography finally made it to some parts of the world through my blog.
Currently, I am hoping to finish the web design, in my mind, of myonlyphoto web site. And I am also hoping that the days will have more than 24 hours per day and more than 7 days a week.
Today I got a photo of the roosters, which I took on my last trip to African Lion Safari, Cambridge—the same trip I had photographed baboons climbing the cars. Well, these guys reminded me of when I was little and was always chased by the white rooster on my parents farm. I was chased all the time, and they almost jumped on my head. There were also white geese, and they were giants, and they chased me as well. I was about 5–6 years old then. Okay, let's add more to the list; dogs were after me too. And chickens too, but only when I had food. So things reversed in life for me; now I chase the animals with my camera, but believe me, I am harmless.
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David
awomansblog posted a reply to your post on my last blog entry.
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P.S. Yes, I AM taunting you with pomegranates... hee hee.
I enjoyed to read your post and like the photo of these two "guys".
If you want chase more roosters one day (with your camera of course!), come down to Key West,the whole island is full with and because they are living wild here, you will see them running all over the place! I have two earlier posts about roosters and hens with their little chickens too.
PS thanks for the message.
I now have a digital camera, but it can not compare in quality to my Nikons with their lenses. Hopefully I will eventually get a digital camera that will.
I have seen that it is not all about megapixels. My son has a 10 mp camera and the pictures are not even as good as my 3 year old 5 mp camera. Must be the quality of the lens or something.
ps funny comment about Bob, lol
I don't know much about other cameras, except Canon, and the Canon CMOS sensor on my EOS 20D apparently gives the real photo feeling. My friends have Nikon, and I seen their photos, and quality is not that bad.
The mega pixel does not define the photo quality. Its more like more pixels on your image. However, all are at resolution of 72 ppi, so that means the higher the mega pixels, the larger image in size it is, and that means when you resize and change resolution presume to 200 ppi, you will get better quality image, less digitized.
I usually develop my photos at 200 ppi for 4x6 to 8x10, have not done anything larger. If you have Photoshop, I define cropping settings to 4 in width 6 in height and resolution to 200 pixels/inch. Then I drag the window around the object on the image, or grab the whole picture. This is my optimum settings. Sometimes I use Unsharp to sharpen a bit, check this post, last paragraph tells you how: http://myonlyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-take-photo-of-moon.html
hope it helps, anna :)
let me know if you need anything else