When I walk around, there are always things that catch my eye. It’s usually colours, shapes, shadows, how the light falls in a certain way. That’s how I got into photography. I wanted to learn how to capture those things, moments. Learn how to do it in a visually interesting way. Because taking a photo of an interesting subject is one thing, but taking a captivating photo is something else. So I “borrowed” my dad’s dusty Nikon & started taking classes & workshops. Ten years and 3 cameras later, I’m still in love with the art.
I’m curious. Photographers, what made you start to photograph?
20 years ago I went on a year-long backpacking trip. I knew nothing about photography but I brought a Panasonic point and shoot. I took thousands of photos and when I got home to review them, they were all terrible. I mean really bad.
So, the most logical thing to me at the time was to buy a better camera. So I did some research and bought a canon dslr … T3i I believe. I went travelling again and took hundreds of photos and came back to review and… they all sucked. How the fak do you make a good picture?
Then I actually started learning … obsessively for a number of years, and have been a student ever since.