my PHOTOGRPAPHS
~when I returned to Kansas in 2008 I thought that I was moving in the direction of becoming a more professional photographer. My father was one and I grew up in the 50's pawing his case of lenses. During my life of very art tasking jobs I developed the 'eye' of shooting pictures. My Hawaiian friend Dana Queen would get so mad at me for perfectly cropping a photo of mine she was trying to print, leaving her no border to work with. I constantly stop in my tracks seeing perfect photos......
* my camera currently is a Canon XTi digital Rebel that I purchased in Hawai'i in 2006. That was my transition from film to digital photography. I have always thought I spent more money on film than food as my babies grew up....I choose this size of camera to fit my hands as it is lighter than the metal body big canon honkers that I just couldn't manage well. My girlfriend Dana had those and so I got to play around on them and learned that the smaller Rebels were the right ticket for me. I have two main 'good' lenses; one for landscape and one macro lens. I fell in love with macro with my first photo!
Some of my pics are very enhanced to bring out a clarity, but most are not at all. I rather like to have the picture be what it was when taken, part of the art of it to me instead of photo shopping the hell out of it. My computer skills are more of the ability to let the camera do the work...and honestly my iMAC computer is always in a calibration crisis and so I have never made art prints of my images. Yep, that is sad, isn't it?
I do have some prints of my earlier Hawaian photos that are framed and I enjoy them emmensely now that I am no longer living the island girl life!
Some of my pics are very enhanced to bring out a clarity, but most are not at all. I rather like to have the picture be what it was when taken, part of the art of it to me instead of photo shopping the hell out of it. My computer skills are more of the ability to let the camera do the work...and honestly my iMAC computer is always in a calibration crisis and so I have never made art prints of my images. Yep, that is sad, isn't it?
I do have some prints of my earlier Hawaian photos that are framed and I enjoy them emmensely now that I am no longer living the island girl life!