Camera Jargon and Making Mistakes

After milling about posting blogs on myspace, I figured I'd expand my horizons with blogspot. Flcker would be nice, but it's not free.

I don't have much time to blog, seeing as how I'm supposed to be running right now instead of churning out a blog that no one will read. Sad tears. Just Jokin.

All I really want to say right now is I'm a little obsessed with photography and more than a little pissed that ever since I got my badass Canon four months ago I've been taking photos at 1600 iso. I should start this story with an instructional video I watched....

Last night Kyle made me watch ( I shouldn't say "made" but I am) this "how to use and take pictures with your digital camera" instructional video. Kinda a refresher course since I haven't used a manual camera since 1999. And I realized that I've been shooting crappy pictures with a HUGE iso and I know, I know that you use 100 speed film whenever possible as a photographer..so I'm a little dumb. AND, I wasn't shooting my pictures as RAW (I was shooting them as jpeg's which isn't professional!)..so they are all full of noise. Pixelated and stuff. Not terribly noisy or pixelated because it's a 10.2 megapixel camera..but I'm still upset with myself.

So, now I have to start over and see if I can be as good at photography as I think I can. I'm excited to see what I can do. It's just too bad I didn't figure all this out before I went to Maine and...and before I shot that wedding in Minneapolis...

Live and Learn, and then learn some more.