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jeffmeyers
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The weather has been awful on the beach this year. When the rain stopped for a bit yesterday I took the dog for a walk on the beach. I didn't take my DSLR because of the threat of more rain, so I put my Lumix Lx3 in my pocket. This is about the only good image I captured all day yesterday, and it was from my point and shoot!
More Photography . . . Less Photoshop [. . . except when I do it]
Jeff Meyers
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Sarah G.
Monroe, LA
Jeff Meyers
Creepy. Can't wait to see them. Maybe you can change my mind about how much I despise those critters.
I've been here, lurking mostly, learning a ton and thoroughly regretting my move to a dSLR. I've only posted a couple shots, I'm too chicken. Have a good rest-of-vacation.
Sarah
Why are you regretting your move?
Jeff Meyers
Over the past six months I've realized that my major interest in photography is primarily as the family historian. While I love the artistry and skill involved in stunning landscapes, abstract photography, and macros, that's not what I am really interested in right now. My goal is for my children and their kids to someday look through my pictures and know who I was, what our family was like, what a regular day felt like.
I really, really miss my Fuji. And I really, really wanted their pro dSLR, but it's $2000, and I haven't got that kind of money. I need a piano first!
I had to decide which lens to bring with me to Charleston for my cousin's wedding a few weeks back and I picked the wrong one, of course, and missed a bazillion shots. Thanks to my pursuit of better photography, I now cringe at using flash in low light so now I need a fast lens. I'd rather spend my $$ on something else, but that "rather" is only slightly outweighed by my frustration with crappy shots. He-he. I keep trying to talk myself out of my guilt.
The learning curve makes me nervous. I get a hold on one thing, and 50 more things pop up to make me realize how inadequately I'm doing all this.
The one thing I have appreciated is that since I spent the money, I've felt compelled to keep up with Project 365 and have, in fact, taken at least one---sometimes several hundred---frame(s) a day. And I'm not jittery anymore about throwing away 98% of my frames. So I'm getting my money's worth. And I've learned RAW processing, and I'm appreciating (other people's) great photography even more.
Sarah