Tuesday, May 4, 2010

why photography?

it´s all beginn from my small talk with my girlfriend back in the november 2008. we use to chat with live messenger everyday. we talk about a lot of thing, from the important one to the thing that actually not really important to discuss lol :D but we always have a great time together almost everyday :)
ok back to photography folks. in that chat time we talk about interesting places all arround the world. we start to browse and discuss about a lot of places & images. from there i`ve seen a lot of amazing places with interesting images and after that i`m going to start thinking, i`m study so far away from my country and i`m in europe now, why i´m not start take some photos so i can show it to my girlfriend the interesting place arround me so she can know better about my city and another city arround germany and europe. so i`m going to be like her eyes here in europe, she also can see what i`ve seen here :)
after that i`m start searching about camera. i`m start looking into the pocket camera. i do some research and i found another type camera that i found more interesting, that´s a super zoom camera. as an amateur i see the super zoom camera look more professional and almost looks the same like the dslr camera. but i`m not stop there, i also do some research about dslr camera. after i collect all the information about all that type camera from the review in artikel and youtube, i`m start thinking that if i want take a great photo dslr camera is more capable then the pocket or super zoom camera. (amateur way of thinking :D actually it depends on how you`re using your camera correctly and what kind of object you captured, camera just a tool to captured those images. the one who can make that photo good or bad is yourself as man behind the camera :)) and from the price there are not much different from a good pocket and super zoom camera with the entry level dslr. the fact is the dslr camera that i bought, the nikon D40, is cheaper then a higher megapixel pocket camera and super zoom camera :D yes it only use kit lens, so it cannot zoom all the way like the super zoom and the D40 just have 6mpx resolution, really kind of low resolution compare with brand new pocket camera nowadays. but with dslr i can change my lens later on with a lot of different lenses and can get more creative with that. another important factor with dslr is that you can really learn about photography. if you want really get the maximal potential from your dslr you have to understand about shutter speed, aperture, iso and use it in manual mode. if you just use your dslr in auto mode the end result it´s not going to be much different from the pocket or super zoom camera.
so thats it. after that small talk on chat to research about the camera and finally decided to bought a 6mpx entry level dslr camera, i`m start take some photo and learn about photography from the very basic, because before i`ve this D40 i`m just using my camera on my mobile phone to captured photo lol.

ps. i took the D40 photo in this post from www.dcviews.com

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