Hacking Photography - one Picture at a time
You’ve come a long way, baby
Once upon a time, the biggest problem with camera phones was the camera itself. One of the world’s first camera phone, the J-SH04 was released in 2000. Boy did we come a long way, right? It could should tiny 0.11 megapixels images. It went up from there. The camera is a big deal in any phone nowadays, Apple has it’s “Shot on iPhone” campaign and bunch of other brands do the same, some even partnering up with Leica to give their phone a legs up above the competition.
It’s been about 3 years now since that infamous article I wrote, confessions of an ex-gear addict. It is by far the most popular article I ever wrote, it’s the one I hope to overdo someday and the one that birthed a bunch of me-too articles. It’s been a while now and I’ve been a good boy when it comes to cameras, but here are a collection of ideas that came during that time about camera buying and more.
Ever so often it happens. You don’t call it, it comes to you. You feel like it’s no use, you think your photography sucks and you feel discouraged. I’ve been there and still get there many times myself, here’s 10 tips to overcome photographic discouragement
I’d like to think that as I age I get wiser. I sure hope so because I want to be a better person every day! Lately I’ve been pondering about Principles. For most of my life I’ve been chasing after the 1-2-3 approach only to realize that things so complex, I would have been better off knowing the principles of life rather than going in without any guiding principle.
Since I am a photographer, I’ve compiled a few principles that I’ve discovered that are beneficial for photographers, I hold them as true because they’ve always been true for me and I am sure will be for you too!
I stated pretty innocently with my first camera, and then slowly but surely I became a camera and lens addict, throwing money out of the window. The result after all of these years is wasted money and all the stuff I got never made me happier besides the initial high. When others make mistakes one can either learn from them, or….not. Here’s my story, I’m not too proud of it but I am sure this will serve as a lesson for countless others. Here are my confessions of an ex-gear addict.
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