I was drinking my yummy milk tea with extra Boba at work one day and was just hit with a memory.
It was almost two years ago.
I was filling my time up with putting together jewelry. I would break apart old necklaces and make something new out of them. It was fun and easy to do as I was watching confusing episodes of LOST. After a few months I started selling my little art projects, if only to buy more jewelry to tear apart. Great business model, right?
At the time I was getting used to using a Nikon D70 for work. Before that I only used an old film camera. And I still don’t know how I got ANY photos to come out of that thing.
Anyways.
I remembering walking into the photo department holding a box of jewelry and a camera and basically asking “how?”. I think I might of even thrown in a few grunts to explain my frustration. I was eager to learn, but didn’t even know where to start. People told me numbers and settings to use, but how would I use those settings when I had no idea what they were talking about?
Then I was given one piece of advice that I still hold today. “It’s cloudy outside, that’s your best bet.” I think he also mentioned numbers…but at that point my head was already going to explode with information.
Excited with that one bit of knowledge, (thinking my camera would jump up and shoot itself) I ran outside. And it did change everything. The light became easy to manage…the shine in my jewelry wouldn’t blind me or passerby’ers.
Once I started putting everything in the shade, it was so much easier to get my clumsily camera settings right. I never shot in auto mode, but I also didn’t know what an F-stop was or what a shutter did. I just played with the dials till I liked what was on the back of the camera. Every photo I took was like solving a puzzle. I was super-lame. I know.
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