Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Zoom In...........





Guess what – I’ve bought myself yet another new lens for my camera at the weekend ……………. this is becoming an expensive hobby :) .

No seriously , I’ve been in to photography for years and years , although only using compacts , but this makes me wish I got a SLR camera years ago , as there is so much more scope for creativity with this item , then add digitalization and Photoshop in to the equation and the skies the limit .

I’ve said this before- photography apart from the odd piece of prose is my only real artistic outlet , and I have been accused of cheating by one of my workmates for putting my own photo’s through Photoshop , but as I said to him they are mine to do with what ever I want , and that means modify , as you all know , and this compensates for my lack of true artistic skill in the more recognised form of the word .

I suppose in my meagre defence , you need some skill to operate a SLR and then there’s of course the inbuilt - eye to spot something worth photographing , and the modifying – well that is as they say…………………………

…………………. “in the eye of the beholder”………………….