Reply #18 - July 29, 2008, 08:07:35 PM
Hello, my name is Mason and I'm an amateur photographer. I started out a few years ago when I was in 7th grade using a Kodak EasyShare C340; my photos weren't fantastic but a friend of my mother from college who is now a professional photographer saw some of my photographs and saw something in a few of them. On a visit to Ohio, he gave me an old ('old') film camera, a Nikon N50, that he was no longer using after carrying out a switch to digital only in his studio.
I absolutely love capturing scenes that I see and trying to make them look as I see them through my eyes- I know that sounds rather unclear, so let me try to elaborate. One of my problems with when I take films using my Kodak EasyShare is that colors never seem to be quite what I see when I'm actually there- I want my photos to act as sorts of anchors in my memory, recording exactly the beauty that I see at that moment. My film camera has very vibrant colors in the pictures, which I like a lot.
I'm here to get criticism on my photographs, as I want to improve on my perspective and get new ideas and inspiration for things to photograph. Also, I'm up for eventually buying a digital camera, though I want one that captures colors as well as my current one. I do appreciate my film camera quite a bit because I find that the imperfections in the film add characteristic to it, much like how it's sometimes more genuine an experience to listen to old music on records rather than CDs.
I've blabbed way too much. But yes, hello
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