A short photography lesson
Hey hey heey. The (outside) world has been such a wonderful place for me recently I just had to be completely and fully immersed in it for the past few days.
But I do get such a creative boost from the recent changes I’ve been implementing in my life, that I just had to come back here today and write about it.
So today I’m going a bit into a possibly on or off topic for me, not really sure, guess we’ll find out. Photography.
I’ve been dabbling for a few years in all sorts of “art”, including photography and for the longest time I had not been purposefully practicing it because I invented excuses in my head: like not having the right camera, not having the technique or training, not having the budget to invest in that. But then, 2020 came and it thought me that, hey, first off you’re here to experience and experiment with yourself, life, your mind, your hands, AAAND you’re here with no other “cool” places to go and spend your money at or on, so I saved up to buy myself this beautiful Canon semi-professional camera back in Jan.
Last week I was taking a walk exploding the places around and about the new city I moved to while being on work-calls, and boy oh boy, the wonders of sunset light falling into the ground in between the cheeky bolts of the mountains smacked me right in the eyeballs and I could only take pics with my phone; As useless quality as they are; they are still gorgeous. Then yesterday it was also pretty sunny and kinda cloudy but good for a photo sesh, I hadn’t charged my camera’s battery tho so that was a bit of a failed mission.
NOW, today I finally went outside prepared with a full battery and the willingness and energy to go and capture all that sight could grasp.
And what I did was just that, but more than that is the feeling and the experience and the colours and shades I could see… oh the miracle of nature and life… :)
It was a bit of a cloudy afternoon, so my hopes of catching the same sunset light but from a better vista place was literally clouded today, yet I still decided to go and what I captured was the miracle of photography alongside that of life.
One of the biggest misconceptions about photography is that you need “good (sun)light”, meaning as sunny as possible, as much light as possible; but in reality that is not really if not, at all true. Now I’m just a noob dabbling in some “picture-taking” at most but honestly, if you experiment with it as I do, you’ll notice too that there is nothing like a bit of shadow and the right amount of transcendent light from behind the clouds to expose the textures, the hues, the shapes and the true feeling of the scenery. I was and continue to be in awe of how marvellous this life truly is and continues to be, and how little we actually notice of it..
My dear dear friends I encourage you to go be outside in nature or in the city or a anywhere outside under the loving sky and different times of the day and let it inspire you to look at your life differently and with kinder eyes. Because that’s the ultimate take away I got from my little 45 minutes stroll.
