I have been a photographer since I was fourteen years old. That is getting near thirty years now. I learned with a 35mm film camera. It was a completely manual Praktica camera.
I believe that is the best way to learn photography. It forces you to really understand light and how the camera works. Shooting film is rare now and even I sometimes forget when shooting hundreds of photos that I used to be limited to a role of film (24 or 36 exposures). That limit made you think about a shot before you took it. Understanding the principles of photography helped you picture what that shot would look like when it was developed. Yes, you had to wait until the film was processed and printed (often a week, later as little as one hour). No looking at the back of the camera to see the shot you just took.
Learning the basics is important and it served me well as I went on to focus on film and video production.
Film and video production is a little different than photography. You have other things to deal with like story, actors, audio, editing and of course motion. But it is still a visual medium. It still primarily relies on light passing through a lens and being recorded.
Through all the years I have been doing film and video, I have never stopped shooting photos. I just hadn't been doing it professionally. Recently I decided it was time to start shooting professionally. I have known a few really good and successful photographers that became photographers long after I was shooting. I thought to myself, why am I not also doing this. So now I am.
In this blog I intend to share some of what I have shot and will shoot and share how I shot it. I also welcome any questions on either what I shoot or photography in general. So please comment and submit questions about photography that you would like answered.
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