This is my first blog post on digital photography !
This photo is a shot of a tropical plant that I edited to look like an abstract painting and I am continually amazed at what you can do with digital and how you can edit the same photo to look like completely different shots.
The prices of the new digital cameras that have come way down since I bought my first one and its nothing short of magic every time I click after having started in the distant days of the old box brownie where you had to practically climb up a pole to get the shot angled right !
For me, taking photos is a relaxed state of creativity so I need to be in the right mode to do it.
Photography is a moment in time and you need to become one with the subject almost like a meditative state that you need to be in when you get that creative urge so I like to spend a bit of time soaking up the atmosphere before I haul out the camera.
Because digital photography is so visual there is no place to hide and some initial forays into the world of digital photography may leave you surprised at what pops out from behind your lens, especially when you are in the moment and everything is flowing.
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There are loads and loads of digital photography books, courses and classes with all sorts of digital photography techniques and tips but ask yourself what you want to do with your photographs and what direction you would like to take. Questions like:
- Are you the observer or are you the subconscious revealed ?
- Is this photo just a great shot or is it a creative message from your inner self ?
- Do you have a message for others or are you just taking interesting photographs
- What is your ultimate aim ?
This is a beach scene from the coast of New Zealand edited as a painterly artwork.
Guardians of the River - Poplar Sentinels - New Zealand
