My Photography Experience and Equipment

I thought it would be a good idea to talk about my photography experience and equipment so readers know what to expect when I post pictures for this project. Actually, after finishing up this post I have some sample photos laying around of the beautiful tropical islands of Hawaii and Guam. I’ll dig them up and post some of the pictures in my next post.

I’ve been using the Canon PowerShot A570 IS as my camera of choice ever since I started getting into photography, which was only about a year ago. If I can remember correctly, I purchased the camera for about $175.00 online. The Canon PowerShot A570 IS isn’t an SLR camera, but it does have manual mode which I do use to shoot my pictures. Using the predefined or automatic settings just doesn’t create great pictures when compared to snapping photos in manual mode. I actually love this camera and think it shoots photos for Internet use comparable to the more expensive cameras that are in the $1,000+ price range.

As far as my photography experience, I’ve been doing travel and scenic type photos for about a year now, and I feel I have a pretty good eye for taking awesome outdoor scenic pictures. We’ll let you, the readers, decide though when I post some of my photos in my next blog post. Within the next few months I actually plan on purchasing a second, higher-end Canon SLR digital camera and maybe some equipment so I can use the camera underwater, and a lens or two! I guess you can say I’ll be a Canon lover once I purchase some Canon lenses.

I do have some Photoshop experience, and I usually do enhance the colors of my photos so it makes them pop a lot more, but that is basically the only type of photo editing I will ever do to a photo.  When editing photos I still use Adobe Photoshop 7.0; yes I’m too cheap to upgrade, and lazy to learn the newer Photoshop versions when the version I currently use does the job just fine.

So there you have it, I use very basic photography equipment, and I in no way consider myself a professional photographer, but I do think I take some damn good photos and you’ll be able to decide for yourself when I post some photos in my next blog post!