What’s happening guys? Hope you’re happy and well.
Last month marked the 1 year anniversary to when I first picked up a camera. Wow, that’s just crazy, honestly where does the time go. I feel I’ve improved and learnt so much in each a short period.
For this blog I thought I just share my photography journey from being absolutely clueless to where I am now. Not as clueless. Haha.
Why did I start?
As you may remember from my original blog post (Click Me!!!) where I talked about my poor health and I wanted to focus and zone in on my hobbies. Previously in 2018 I completed a marathon which gave the self confidence and belief that I can do anything. Provided you put in the work
Last November, I got an old Nikon D5100 DSLR camera (which probably had around 6 or 7 years of dust on it when I picked it up. However I decided to test out and see if I could take a few photos. I didn’t have a clue about settings, composition or the exposure triangle. But I could remember being told a very long time along that if you put your camera on ‘P’ mode then all the settings with automatic without the flash kicking in.
So I headed out to my favourite park (If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know the one) to take a few shots. Looking back most of the shots were really poor and of a terrible standard, but there was one photo I liked. I decided to upload it to Instagram and was amazed by the response I received. The whole decision from going out and shooting and the sharing with the very small number of followers I had, was very rewarding. And just wanted to go out with my camera again and again.
Volunteering and Putting Myself Out There
A month after this, an opportunity came up to volunteer at my local Parkrun event to volunteer as a photographer. I was very nervous about doing this as I wasn’t confident about my skill level but eventually talked myself to taking the jump.
I felt great and received completely positive feedback was surprising but very welcome, in the upcoming weeks and months my photos where improving week by week. All I wanted to was take photos of everything and anything. Photography grabbed a hold of me in way that words can’t really describe.
With this, I knew myself that I needed learn so much so I signed up for an online course Photography Masterclass course on Udemy (Not sponsored) which was absolutely fantastic. It helped me to learn about the basics of photography. Such as the exposure triangle (aperture, shutter speed and ISO) aswell as composition. As I went through the course I felt myself improving all the time.
Now and Taking the Next Steps
Looking at where I am at the moment, I’m happy with my first year in photography. The skills which I’ve learnt. I will be looking into expanding my range of lenses to help with different types of photography. I recently done a Instagram collaboration in Edinburgh to help improve my black and white and street photography. Already I have been asked to cover a few weddings. Which completely blew my mind, especially as I’ve not been doing photos for very long all.
Final Note
I just wanted to say a massive thank to everyone who have taken the time to firstly read this blog or any of my other blog posts. Also thank you to everyone who has viewed, liked, commented on my post and followed me on social media over the last year. It means the absolute world to have your support and hopefully you will continue to enjoy my content moving into the future.
Until the next time.