An eventful year
Oct/10/09 22:33 Filed in: Technicalities
First and foremost, this site went through a significant change in appearance. I changed the gallery layout and find the photo book type look rather pleasing. Second the blog became more readable using larger fonts and wider line spacing and tags have been reorganized to let you find your way around better.
Second were the photography changes.
Switching from a
bridge style camera (Sony DSC H2) to a digital SLR
proofed to be quite a challenge. And it was
certainly not getting used to the new camera
functions and capabilities as such but more about
getting used to a new style and way of using a
tool. So it took me a while to produce pleasing
photographs with the D60 and my two lenses. But it
was worth the hard work. I do have plenty of images
to work on which I took between March and October
of 2009. So there are exciting photographs to come
for the gallery. Stay tuned in that respect.
Third, I finally dug out my copy of Vincent Versace's magnificent "Welcome to Oz". This is a book I bought within my second year of photographing. This book contains an unusual approach about looking at photography and an inspiring thought process behind it perked with quite some challenging photoshop lessons. The matters inside the book were interesting, to say the least, and yet quite complex. And I just knew, that I was not quite ready to peruse the challenges which this book wanted to put upon me. Two or so years later the book found me. I know, that sounds rather cheesy. But that is how it was. And I started the lessons with my newly purchased WACOM Intuos 4 tablet. That would be change number four. I touched it the first time at the Photoshop World in Boston this past March. And I fell in love with it. All I can say is that, if you love your photography and like the digital darkroom work in Photoshop, then get one. Buy the small or the medium one - the screen size does not matter. I have the medium version on a full HD 23" screen and I can honestly say that the small one would have done the job for my type of work. The medium is fine, but if you don't have the money, the small one will do the job just right. Anything is better than a mouse for that matter.
The fifth change is rather personal and shall not be discussed in a photo blog in depth. But it does involve a move across the ocean and thus probably a change in the photographs I will be going after. This move will happen by the end of the months and might mean yet another break in the workflow on this site. But I will be back before the depth of the Winter comes around.
Third, I finally dug out my copy of Vincent Versace's magnificent "Welcome to Oz". This is a book I bought within my second year of photographing. This book contains an unusual approach about looking at photography and an inspiring thought process behind it perked with quite some challenging photoshop lessons. The matters inside the book were interesting, to say the least, and yet quite complex. And I just knew, that I was not quite ready to peruse the challenges which this book wanted to put upon me. Two or so years later the book found me. I know, that sounds rather cheesy. But that is how it was. And I started the lessons with my newly purchased WACOM Intuos 4 tablet. That would be change number four. I touched it the first time at the Photoshop World in Boston this past March. And I fell in love with it. All I can say is that, if you love your photography and like the digital darkroom work in Photoshop, then get one. Buy the small or the medium one - the screen size does not matter. I have the medium version on a full HD 23" screen and I can honestly say that the small one would have done the job for my type of work. The medium is fine, but if you don't have the money, the small one will do the job just right. Anything is better than a mouse for that matter.
The fifth change is rather personal and shall not be discussed in a photo blog in depth. But it does involve a move across the ocean and thus probably a change in the photographs I will be going after. This move will happen by the end of the months and might mean yet another break in the workflow on this site. But I will be back before the depth of the Winter comes around.