It’s a semi-professional hobby, I’d say. I don’t get paid, but I do concert photography and artists interviews for a music blog I created. I like to document events, and collect visual memories.

I started photography for “fun” at first without any intention to pursue a career or even developing a skill. I had got a film camera for my tenth birthday. I didn’t do much with it. Then I started taking more pictures when my mum bought a video digicam that could also take pictures. With my brother and I filmed and took pictures of about everything for fun on holidays mostly. Later, my stepdad gave me his old Olympus digicam when he upgraded to the DSLR tech. I kept on taking pictures to collect memories of my life (parties, holidays…). I decided to get a “better bridge camera” which had more megapixels but it was not really that better (some Fujifilm fine pix s2950 or whatever model it was).

I got more serious about it after I got my first DSLR in 2014 kind of out of luck… When I had just started working, I showed some pictures that I took for fun to a colleague… then he told another colleague I could take pictures. So, I was asked to take pictures at a colleague’s wedding after her photographer bailed on her a few days before the wedding. She ended up paying the camera I had bought for the occasion.

I occasionally used manual focus during concert photography when my camera struggled a lot through the smoke and low light. I do use it when I have a vintage lens that doesn’t allow AF. When I shoot pictures of tiny objects, I connect my camera to my computer and manual focus while using the screen zoomed in, but that’s more for experimental things or to check out if a record player’s needle is okay.

Until my dual core mid-2009 MBP actually fried in 2020… I didn’t change computer up until now. Only upgrade I did back then was to max out the RAM and get an SSD in 2013. ahahah

3 pictures ! lol

I only have two lenses, so I’d go for the 50mm f/1.8. At a festival, a photographer I know lent me an L 70-200m f/2.8, it was very heavy but very good. Maybe I’ll try to invest in one some day.

Concert photography

Once I got 191 likes with a short reel. If I get above ten likes on a picture it’s “fairly good” I don’t really know. Good luck. I just stopped looking at the numbers and just post when I have things to post.

I’m a self taught photographer. I do concert photography for my own website. Since I’m not a student I don’t have as much time to update the site like I used to… I don’t have enough talent to give up everything for photography.