supercool2
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I have THREE motivations/reasons that got me into photography.
#1) I refuse to pay someone else for something I can/want do myself even if it means having to invest in it & learning it. One of those things is taking my kids portraits.
Right now I'm only concentrating on trying to make up for all those good photos I never got when my kids were little ;-( because I couldn't afford a decent camera or to hire a "real" photographer. Sears/olan mills sucked big time and if they were not blurry I was upset with the constant limb/head/feet chops. I even worked at Sear Portrait studio when my oldest was 2 just to try to learn a few things. I did learn a lot about composure,but it seemed a lot of the other peopel who worked there after I left only cared about a paycheck, or were always brand new to it. I literally cried over so many bad pictures from the sears place,but kept going back to them because I had no idea there were people who you could actually hire "on location" instead. Actually i did try one person, and thought they were good. unti lI looked at them a year later (after learning photography) then I saw how blurry they all were. Every single one. And that every single one was shot at f1.4 . She changed half of them to black and white without asking me if i even liked bl&wh (I don't0,and the color ones were really washed out (later realized she turned down the saturation) . Didn't matter she had a D800 , I can take better pictures of my own kids with my D600/D7100 and I'm not even in the business of doing photography like this person was.
The only other professional photographers I knew about were extremely expensive (owned their own studios) Im talking $400 for a 16x20 print. I still can't afford that,sorry ! I would rather invest in a 2K camera and some prime lenses and do it myself and order through mpix.com or smugmug . I'm not being cheap. I really can't afford to buy several really huge prints for 4 kids ,several times a year. I would be stuck unhappy with what I got for what I can afford,if I continued to pay others do it for me . But by the time I knew about all the more affordable (but good) independant photographers in my area, I was already getting into it myself (learning,not a business though) and started taking my own pictures.
Which I'm happy to report I'm more pleased with the ones I've taken,than any of the ones I ever paid for ! I have some big prints on my wall of the kids that I cherish and love ,the kind I ALWAYS wished I could have !
And since I have no decent pictures of my kids as newborns and that motivates me to want to be a maternity/birth/newborn photographer one day. And maybe give a discount or do free for families who cant afford nice decent pictures . So I guess you can say its all those bad expereinces getting crappy photos and wanting something better and feeling like I could do better myself.
#2) I make realistic dolls . To showcase my work online and sell them successfully, I have to be able to represent how they look in real life ,to the best of my abilities. It involved learning different aspects of photography ,even though I may have had a point &shoot i still had to learn about composure and other things. But I knew i needed a DSLR after using my moms camera and wanting to get my own eventually. Photography has helped me show others my skill level with my painting so they will choose to buy my art,over some one else's . Wanting to sell my dolls and get what they are truly worth $wise (for my skill level in making them,the painting,etc..) has motivated me the most to improve my photography. And my mom (who was a photographer hobbyist before me) who was always criticizing every picture I shared with her. She just wanted to help, lol.
#3) Always had a camera , snapping pictures from about age 5. They were always point&shoots but I always loved taking pictures, to preserve moment in time and now its more than just that. Now I want to get into macro,hdr, and of course one day when my kids are older , newborn/birth photography.
And those are the things that "pushed" me into finally getting a dlsr and want to learn this.
#1) I refuse to pay someone else for something I can/want do myself even if it means having to invest in it & learning it. One of those things is taking my kids portraits.
Right now I'm only concentrating on trying to make up for all those good photos I never got when my kids were little ;-( because I couldn't afford a decent camera or to hire a "real" photographer. Sears/olan mills sucked big time and if they were not blurry I was upset with the constant limb/head/feet chops. I even worked at Sear Portrait studio when my oldest was 2 just to try to learn a few things. I did learn a lot about composure,but it seemed a lot of the other peopel who worked there after I left only cared about a paycheck, or were always brand new to it. I literally cried over so many bad pictures from the sears place,but kept going back to them because I had no idea there were people who you could actually hire "on location" instead. Actually i did try one person, and thought they were good. unti lI looked at them a year later (after learning photography) then I saw how blurry they all were. Every single one. And that every single one was shot at f1.4 . She changed half of them to black and white without asking me if i even liked bl&wh (I don't0,and the color ones were really washed out (later realized she turned down the saturation) . Didn't matter she had a D800 , I can take better pictures of my own kids with my D600/D7100 and I'm not even in the business of doing photography like this person was.
The only other professional photographers I knew about were extremely expensive (owned their own studios) Im talking $400 for a 16x20 print. I still can't afford that,sorry ! I would rather invest in a 2K camera and some prime lenses and do it myself and order through mpix.com or smugmug . I'm not being cheap. I really can't afford to buy several really huge prints for 4 kids ,several times a year. I would be stuck unhappy with what I got for what I can afford,if I continued to pay others do it for me . But by the time I knew about all the more affordable (but good) independant photographers in my area, I was already getting into it myself (learning,not a business though) and started taking my own pictures.
Which I'm happy to report I'm more pleased with the ones I've taken,than any of the ones I ever paid for ! I have some big prints on my wall of the kids that I cherish and love ,the kind I ALWAYS wished I could have !
And since I have no decent pictures of my kids as newborns and that motivates me to want to be a maternity/birth/newborn photographer one day. And maybe give a discount or do free for families who cant afford nice decent pictures . So I guess you can say its all those bad expereinces getting crappy photos and wanting something better and feeling like I could do better myself.
#2) I make realistic dolls . To showcase my work online and sell them successfully, I have to be able to represent how they look in real life ,to the best of my abilities. It involved learning different aspects of photography ,even though I may have had a point &shoot i still had to learn about composure and other things. But I knew i needed a DSLR after using my moms camera and wanting to get my own eventually. Photography has helped me show others my skill level with my painting so they will choose to buy my art,over some one else's . Wanting to sell my dolls and get what they are truly worth $wise (for my skill level in making them,the painting,etc..) has motivated me the most to improve my photography. And my mom (who was a photographer hobbyist before me) who was always criticizing every picture I shared with her. She just wanted to help, lol.
#3) Always had a camera , snapping pictures from about age 5. They were always point&shoots but I always loved taking pictures, to preserve moment in time and now its more than just that. Now I want to get into macro,hdr, and of course one day when my kids are older , newborn/birth photography.
And those are the things that "pushed" me into finally getting a dlsr and want to learn this.
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