So Much to Learn

We subscribe to the 'Australian Photography' magazine.

I also watch the Canon facebook page and their website.  I follow the Canon EOS chains and their EOS 1 Wall and sometimes submit entries on both.

I follow half a dozen professional photographer's sites via RSS feeds, both local and international, which  provide some great information on cameras, all forms of photography and sometimes offer short training videos on these subjects.

I have a Flickr profile and am a member of a photography group, where I can post my photos and be critiqued by both professionals and amateurs and where I have already learned a lot in a few short months.

I have a 500px profile, which I don't go into very often because the photographers there are amazingly talented and use a lot of editing software like photoshop to manipulate their photographs into extraordinary pieces of art.

I have used my camera every day for more than two years and now with my new camera, practise with different lenses in different light conditions and at different times of the day as often as possible.

I play with the iphoto editing tool on my laptop to enhance the shots that I take and I have photoshop, which I haven't used yet, but am looking at it with more of an open mind to learn a few tricks like framing my photos and adding my signature.

I did a ten day photography course last year in February, which taught a little about photography and too much on photoshop.

I attended a weekend photography workshop in Maleny which taught me more in two days than I learnt for the entire ten days in the previous course.

Adoring Husband has a sponge for a brain and has studied everything 'Canon' for the last six months and passed on lots of information to me in that time (even though I mostly hear blah blah blah lol).  Every day, I learn something new from him.

I am currently doing a Photography Diploma online.

Every day, with all of this experience and knowledge, I still feel like a beginner.

It doesn't matter how much I learn, there is always still so much more!

For every new piece of information I find, it creates a whole new section of information to learn!

I always thought that photography was just about having a good camera, learning how to compose a photograph and being in the right place at the right time for that 'special' shot.

Once you start looking beyond your own little world, where your friends and family tell you how fabulous you are and create a wonderful bubble of security for you, there is so much more to it than you could ever imagine!!

Sometimes it can feel a little overwhelming, but mostly it feels like an exciting challenge.

Even if it takes 500 shots to capture that ONE MAGIC MOMENT ... it is SOOOOO worth it!

She's the apple of my eye!

Every moment with Chicklet is magic!

So I still have so much to learn and one day I want to be able to combine technical perfection with creative beauty and present an awe inspiring photograph that captures the world's imagination.

Wish me luck!

Nite all.