Alpha Photography Blog

Photographs record memories and events like nothing else can. They are timeless, and bring back memories in an instant. They can remind you of wonderful holidays, precious family moments, and inspire your imagination.

Day to day life constantly exercises our left-side analytical brain. Why not stretch a few different muscles, and work that creative right brain for a while?

Photography is the perfect outlet!

Much of photography takes creativity and processes it through the analytical side of the brain, exercising both at once.

But the essence of true photography lies with your ability to see something and freeze it in time.

The first step is the camera itself. If you don’t already have a camera, you’ll definitely be needing one!

My parents gave me my first camera at the tender age of 10. It was a blue Kodak Pocket Instamatic and took the old 110mm film.

I loved that camera, but by the age of 15 I’d outgrown this camera and moved onto a compact Pentax film camera, with a 105mm zoom – now I was in the big league!

Fast forward a decade, and a few cameras, and I ventured into the world of the Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera. It looked very daunting, but I was determined to take that next step with my photography.

I spent the next 6 months trying to figure out how to really use my new toy. In the end I decided to go and take some classes.

I started on the ‘old fashioned’ film SLR – a Canon EOS 300V, and learnt how to:

· take good photos,

· develop and print them,

· how to make the most of your surroundings, and

· what it feels like to be in a studio, where every aspect is under your control.

I’ve always enjoyed being an observer – which is one of the reasons I love to travel. All your senses are tested – everything is new and your comfort zone is turned upside down.

Sure, you can capture the same old angle that every tourist gets, but ask yourself, how else you can see something and you’ll really start to look upon your surroundings with a new eye.

Photography gives you the gift of broadened site and perspective.

This blog will cover topics that are:

· valuable for the beginner photographer, and

· more experienced photographers will also find the information useful as a refresher, with some familiar aspects of the world of photography.

Enjoy!

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