Meter This, Meter That

Okay, so I've been getting a lot of "subtle" hints to update my blog but I have been so busy nursing a baby. You would think that I could have mastered the art of typing proficiently with one hand, supporting her head in the other but I haven't. She still enjoys eating at rather a slow pace and with her cluster feeding over the last 3 days, it feels as though that is all that I have been doing. She has my attention, or rather my breasts, at her beckon call which has literally been every hour on the hour with snacks in between.

When I haven't been doing that, I've been heavily researching cameras. I am on my way to joining every other photographer, pro and wanna-be-pro’s, with owning a digital SLR camera. I have held off on buying one for quite some time because not only is it an investment, but I really wanted to learn how to take a good picture first and learn what all those buttons and functions actually do. I have never been the believer that you needed a $$$ camera to take a quality pic but I'm sure it does make things a little easier. There are a few shutterbugs in my family and I have seen their quality of work with just the basic camera and I know I have taken a few good quality pics myself with my little point-and-shoot; although I have no idea how I did it, hence the workshops.

I'm glad I am under the leadership of a photographer that doesn't believe in the philosophy "all you need is Photoshop" because personally I don't have time to go through the hundreds of pics I do take and fix them all up. I say "fix" because I am definitely not in the stages of "enhancing" them. To me fixing my photos means that I took a crappy photo in the first place and I wish I didn't because I really liked that shot, pose, or moment-in-time. If I were enhancing those pictures it would mean that I am trying to do something extra special/creative with a really good picture that I took in the first place. And besides, I barely have time to upload and post my pics as it is. Hahaha, makes you wonder why the heck I think I have time to peruse this new hobby!

Mostly I guess it's because I have always LOVED LOVED snapping pictures of things and people. And I have always LOVED admiring and pondering other peoples pics. My problem with buying a digital camera in the first place was that I could now take even more pictures which meant a more difficult time choosing which ones to keep and which ones to delete. These workshops I have been taking though, have been helping me with that too. I can now look at my pictures and think "Gawd! That turned out horrible" and actually be able to fix it. (Well, with practice I'm sure I'll be able to fix it! lol)

Anyway, here are a few shots that I took at my last class when we all discovered the joys of metering.