Sandy, welcome to the nex forum! Great group of people over here. Very helpful and friendly. I like your detail with your duck image. Nice capture.
Stefan, nice peaceful image from Italy. I would think this would look good in black and white as well.
Toni, cool stuff, like your lighting choice.
Week 8, Tuesday - Directions in darkness
"Before I created this photo blog I pretty much concentrated on family photography and shooting on holidays. In my first year with Nex-5N I took over 26000 pictures, kept about 15 % of them and post processed at least 2500 pictures from Raw to Jpeg. At early stages I was very unsatisfied with a look of my photographs (especially colors) and thought that straight of the camera pictures had, if not boring, at least some way standardized look that I often found uninteresting. Somewhere around 2000 processed pictures I started to felt a bit better with look of my photography and by the end of the year I was already pretty satisfied with it. But still something within me wasn't happy with a photography I did. What I was missing was direction and self consciousness understanding of my own 'photographic eye'. [...]"
Week 8, Wednesday - Questions
"Before I began to understand anything about my own photography, I used to look inspiration from other peoples work. It's easy to trap yourself with an idea that you need to find your own photographic character from world outside. With a click of a mouse one can browse all kinds of photographs of different ideas, characters and styles; and have so overflowing possibilities that it actually just introduces insecurity. They don't feel home, because they don't come inside you. The only way to overcome this is to pay attention to your own photography and start asking questions. [...]"
