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Sunday, October 07, 2007
It's about time I started thinking WHY am I doing photography now.. Why??My fellow photographers know the reason they are doing it. Me? I better start thinking about it. How did I come about this.. Well, this.. Thing called photography? Issit a subject? Issit something I love doing? What is it? What is photography to me? I gave it some thought.. Here're some reflections from the past.. I started out as a point-and-shoot person. The usual "civillian" that held a camera, that has become a common place with the advancement of technology. Gradually, I find it alluring and attracting to be doing abit of shooting here and there. But, no matter how hard I tried, things just doesn't seem correct. There's something wrong with my photos, but I didn't know what is wrong with 'em. Decided to seek out answers to the questions I posed to myself. I guess, back then I couldn't "see" pictures. Lacking in experience. Lacking the theory. Lacking the sense. After the Os, I went abit further, learning from books, doing abit of reading up. Saw alot of theories on photography. "How to shoot GREAT pictures." This sortta things.. Got a rather brief grasp of it. There're no advanced settings on my Ixus IIs, so, couldn't really put what I've read into practice. So, I knew, I wanted to go further. The thirst for knowledge was there.. The WANT to know more about it. Hence, even before I set out to JC, I sortta knew what kinda CCA I wanted to join in JC. Photosoc. Let's forward it to just after JAE... Entered a new JC. Got to know people.. Felt a new rush of emotions. But, just didn't know how 2 express it. I don't sing. I can't write well. Not good at talking. Bad at drawing. But there was something that at least I could do relatively well in. Taking photos. Perhaps, reason 1 for photography: Releasing trapped emotions, expressing 'em. Now that it's become a hobby, I guess, reason 2 would be cause I do love shooting it. It's like a life. Similar to other hobbies that people have, like keeping fishes, keeping stamps, etc. I think I ought to give it a deeper thought. More thoughts into why photography for me... ... ... LOST at Sunday, October 07, 2007 |