I’ve been making a big thing about going out at the weekends lately, deliberately with the intention of taking photos. Usually in a day (like Sunday for example, when I went out to the canal near where I live to get photos) I can take 200+ photos. Of those 200 maybe 10-20 will be good photos that I’m ok with sharing with the world.

There’s a good reason for this. I simply don’t know what it is that makes a good photo. I have no knowledge of things like composition and very little knowledge of how to get the best from my camera. I know what most of the settings do, but have no idea when to use them. Most of my good photos are flukes taken with the auto-focus setting on my camera.

I find it frustrating when I hear other photobloggers talking about the shutter speed that they use or why they used x lens with y filter, because it’s gibberish to me and I want to know more. I want to know much more and I want to be a good photographer.

So… hopefully soon, I’ll be enrolling on an evening course in photography, where I’ll learn the ins and outs of camera work and hopefully be able to turn my hobby into an way of making art. I’m also buying myself a new compact camera as the F828 is simply too bulky to carry everywhere (meaning I miss loads of photo-ops) and my compact is on a permanent loan to the girlfriends sister.

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