1. I started my interest in photography after my first travel alone, after rather several rolls taken by a small Canon I borrowed from my father.
2. I like photographs because it is a lot easier then painting.
3. The first camera I bought myself was a Nikon FM10, when I decided to take photos more seriously.
4. I did take some short courses about photography, in Hongkong and in Paris, like 'reportage by photo'...
5. I use more often with a Panasonic DMC-LZ5 now. Obviously I am not a professional.
6. I like digital camera for it is more economy and ecology.
7. I like mechanical for I find it easier to control technically.
8. I love color, but I prefer taking black & white if I have the opportunity to develop and enlarge them myself.
9. Photographing is a solitude activity.
10. I need time to feel the place and people in front of me before I photograph them.
11. I don't like to be photographed. Not a fair game, i know :P
12. I think some basic photography techniques are required even though we are just amateurs, of course, if we are not satisfied by simply clicking a button. In other words, I think it is hard to take nice photos if we don't possess at least some basic techniques.
13. When I showed my first travel photo album to my father, he critiqued and said "I don't even know what you are photographing!!" . The second time I showed him another album, same comment! Well as usual he is not easy to please ... Until the last time, many years ago, when I have carefully selected and presented my photos in my own layout, he admired and said, "is that you who took those pictures ?" I guess, 'presentation' has done the job.
14. There are several things that a good photographer requires, I think : talent, technique, observation, heart, mood, patient, then the last but not the least, respect to the others.
15. Successful photos are not always counted on the gamme of cameras or power of lens used. Many famous photographers have left us brilliant oeuvres taken with standard 50mm lens.
16. I remember one of the teachers once told us: you don't 'zoom' to your object, you 'go' to your object.
17. (extra) I have recently discovered this site via blogger Hongkie. Their blog articles give often nice tips in photography, written by 10 different professional photographers.
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