Mere Musings

(Another old writing piece from January 2017 but again I figured it was worth the share.)  Technology is important, it’s how the pictures and videos actually get recorded and preserved. And the old mantra “You get what you pay for” is no exception to the world of cameras. But I’d like to talk about the relationship between upgrading technology and improving photography (and videography). When I first started taking (digital) pictures I was using a Kodak point and shoot, I had fun but I was never really astounded by the quality but they still served to preserve memories, the chief function of amateur photography. As I got more interested in quality, and in video, I saved up and bought my first DSLR (I say as if I’ve owned more than 2), a Nikon D3100, this was a fantastic camera and though I loved taking pictures and video with it, it probably went scarcely unused. (I just never found the time or purposes to actually go out and use it, but that’s another issue) But I had no know...

(I wrote this in January 2017 but I still felt like it was worth of posting here as I had come across it while going through a google drive account ) In the past I had always associated “photography” as the person that stands behind the camera taking family portraits, that were boring, lifeless and generally annoying to wrangle that many people into a confined space. And that’s what stuck in my mind whenever I thought of photography. I disliked this type of picture taking that even when I had a “nice” DSLR I would leave it at home so that these photographs weren’t expected of me. It wasn’t until recently that I began to form a more robust view of photography. As a film student at a small college, I learned a lot about framing and composition, the importance of lighting and all of these other aspects of film, but it never made the leap to photography until this summer, when I got the chance to go take pictures and video in Nicaragua. I had always considered myself a videographer and ...