nomade
Hobbyist
It's been a while and i wanted to post how do i feel about thos last 7 months?
My relation ship with the camera goes back to when i was a very few years old, my dad's fed, i used to hold it and see things through, and then they started to allow me to tick the button(it's heavy and none wanted to sacrifice this camera, after all it was my dad's and he died), then one started to take shots and shots and explore the quality of the shots...There came the confidence, people thought i did have an eye for good photos, everyone trusted Rasha will do it better than anyone else...Growing up using different cameras, letting the rust eat the fed2, i grew more confident with the ability of taking good shots(or snap shots u say), i grew more confident about being able to choose the decisive moment aswell...
3 years ago i've got sick about the photos i produce, no longer satisfactory, all of them were empty, except for those who had some special faces on...That was when i started to see the post cards quality on my landscape photos, that was also when everyone really thought iw as talented for that and then who were those everybody, they hadn't thought about it as an art just yet...One more thought was that i really couldn't produce what i had in mind on paper, i was still not able to control the shot, i had muh better photos in my brain cells...The thing is that u don't take photos to stick the scenes and bring back the memories on a matt paper, not just that, i needed to make it as special as it gets, and postcards weren't to be that special, they were everyone's photos, it was what everyone have seen. It doesn't matter to take photos of the louvre and eiffel when u r in Paris buy a photos book it'll be less expensive, it's good to do put on paper what u see, let everyone see it through ur eyes...Since do believe all humans have common backgrounds, that thoughts and creative ideas are repetetive, but let's not discuss that now.
On a regular hot canadian summer day, i was in mississauga's public library and i borrowed a couple of books, camera obscura, and "the photographic eye" learning to see with a camera for O'brien and Norman Sibley, and i thought yes i'm on the right path, this is the way to developpe some skills...
The real problem was my lack of patience, i was not attentive and i'm not very attentive not when trying something new...But i've improved a lot these last 2 years...I couldn't go further in O'Brien's book, i had to leave, but before i went to Chapter's book store and i bought the photographic handbook for John Hedgecoe, and to tell u the truth i've read a lot but started working on my fed 2 seriously only this last summer...
For me that was the right moment to start because in those last 2 years i've learnt how to be more attentive in life generally...And so i was patient enough to learn and go through 7 months of unsatisfaction,of frustration, of getting further of what i wanted to be, of making the same stupid mistakes, of keeping the samestupid distance, of doing the same exposure errors, of thinking 60 hours and finally blow the moment...Of not being able to choose the right moment...
Finally after my last trip, i felt like having more control, i felt the progress i've made, from not knowing what's a range finder, to the courage of trying and fix my camera on my own(i screwed up a lot fo times and gave people hell here 😀) anyway i'm improving dealing with PS, and then i'm no longer scared to screw the pics due to a stupid mistake dealing with the speed dial, or the lens aperture, i've reached more understanding, of how to deal with the camera techniques...At least now i'm beginning to feel free to use more creativity.
On a second thought, it's not just enough to go try and shoot, i've needed that O'Brien's book again, and in Egypt u wouldn't find a lot of photography books, i've already bought another 35 mm hand book for Micheal Freeman, and understanding photography that of Carl Shipman. These along with the handbook i bought has helped me a lot during these period, but it was time to focus more on how to see with a camera, that's what i needed, some refreshment, although i ha to deal with the techniques 1st, or so i felt...
After 7 months of not liking my photos and feeling unable to do mroe than snapshots...I suddenly felt like, i'm on the door step, i'm finally gettin into it...
And i'd liek to say that being here has encouraged me a lot, being ehre also gave me the courage to unscrew my cameras, to buy one more fed, to get one mroe lens, and more will be coming through, the most important thing was to learn seeing how other people work their cameras, and some that i really admired, some that i really learnt from, also learning how to comment on a photo, instead of the regular oh very nice, beautifull, this and ths and this one too, they r all good...
It's been a while since the last time i posted on the forums too 😀
My relation ship with the camera goes back to when i was a very few years old, my dad's fed, i used to hold it and see things through, and then they started to allow me to tick the button(it's heavy and none wanted to sacrifice this camera, after all it was my dad's and he died), then one started to take shots and shots and explore the quality of the shots...There came the confidence, people thought i did have an eye for good photos, everyone trusted Rasha will do it better than anyone else...Growing up using different cameras, letting the rust eat the fed2, i grew more confident with the ability of taking good shots(or snap shots u say), i grew more confident about being able to choose the decisive moment aswell...
3 years ago i've got sick about the photos i produce, no longer satisfactory, all of them were empty, except for those who had some special faces on...That was when i started to see the post cards quality on my landscape photos, that was also when everyone really thought iw as talented for that and then who were those everybody, they hadn't thought about it as an art just yet...One more thought was that i really couldn't produce what i had in mind on paper, i was still not able to control the shot, i had muh better photos in my brain cells...The thing is that u don't take photos to stick the scenes and bring back the memories on a matt paper, not just that, i needed to make it as special as it gets, and postcards weren't to be that special, they were everyone's photos, it was what everyone have seen. It doesn't matter to take photos of the louvre and eiffel when u r in Paris buy a photos book it'll be less expensive, it's good to do put on paper what u see, let everyone see it through ur eyes...Since do believe all humans have common backgrounds, that thoughts and creative ideas are repetetive, but let's not discuss that now.
On a regular hot canadian summer day, i was in mississauga's public library and i borrowed a couple of books, camera obscura, and "the photographic eye" learning to see with a camera for O'brien and Norman Sibley, and i thought yes i'm on the right path, this is the way to developpe some skills...
The real problem was my lack of patience, i was not attentive and i'm not very attentive not when trying something new...But i've improved a lot these last 2 years...I couldn't go further in O'Brien's book, i had to leave, but before i went to Chapter's book store and i bought the photographic handbook for John Hedgecoe, and to tell u the truth i've read a lot but started working on my fed 2 seriously only this last summer...
For me that was the right moment to start because in those last 2 years i've learnt how to be more attentive in life generally...And so i was patient enough to learn and go through 7 months of unsatisfaction,of frustration, of getting further of what i wanted to be, of making the same stupid mistakes, of keeping the samestupid distance, of doing the same exposure errors, of thinking 60 hours and finally blow the moment...Of not being able to choose the right moment...
Finally after my last trip, i felt like having more control, i felt the progress i've made, from not knowing what's a range finder, to the courage of trying and fix my camera on my own(i screwed up a lot fo times and gave people hell here 😀) anyway i'm improving dealing with PS, and then i'm no longer scared to screw the pics due to a stupid mistake dealing with the speed dial, or the lens aperture, i've reached more understanding, of how to deal with the camera techniques...At least now i'm beginning to feel free to use more creativity.
On a second thought, it's not just enough to go try and shoot, i've needed that O'Brien's book again, and in Egypt u wouldn't find a lot of photography books, i've already bought another 35 mm hand book for Micheal Freeman, and understanding photography that of Carl Shipman. These along with the handbook i bought has helped me a lot during these period, but it was time to focus more on how to see with a camera, that's what i needed, some refreshment, although i ha to deal with the techniques 1st, or so i felt...
After 7 months of not liking my photos and feeling unable to do mroe than snapshots...I suddenly felt like, i'm on the door step, i'm finally gettin into it...
And i'd liek to say that being here has encouraged me a lot, being ehre also gave me the courage to unscrew my cameras, to buy one more fed, to get one mroe lens, and more will be coming through, the most important thing was to learn seeing how other people work their cameras, and some that i really admired, some that i really learnt from, also learning how to comment on a photo, instead of the regular oh very nice, beautifull, this and ths and this one too, they r all good...
It's been a while since the last time i posted on the forums too 😀
