In my previous post “Photographing a belly dancer,†I mentioned how you have to make do when you don’t have control over the lighting and access to the performing/dance area.
I started wondering how much better my images could look, if I had more control, the control freak that I am.
Santa brought me this–The big spender that I am, I kept it under $100. I paid $60.94 shipped for this San Disk Firewire 800 Compact Flash card reader. If you’re shooting with large compact flash cards, you won’t be disappointed. There’s some talk that USB 2.0 will be updated/replaced by USB 3.0 soon but who knows when.
In the box are 2 cables. One is strictly a Firewire 800 cable on both ends. The other is Firewire 800 and Firewire 400 for folks with computers which don’t have the latest Firewire 800 ports.
Prior to digital cameras, that need for speed was never an issue in computing.
Most folks used computers for wordprocessing so their data was mostly text.
Occasionally they might use a graphics program and clip art to make a flyer. That was it.
In the 10 years since I bought my 1st Mac Powerbook, I’m amazed at how much has changed.
Today, I have more storage on a single compact flash card than the internal hard drive of my 1st Powerbook.
Artists in their own rights—Marvin and Maria were among my students who took part in a class show at the local coffeehouse Back to the Grind in downtown Riverside. Every 1st Thursday of the month, galleries downtown feature local artists’s work. See my other students who participated after the jump.
You’ve spent lots of money on equipment and probably invested lot more in time with your camera. Now, you have a body of work that is respectable.
If you don’t share it or somehow show it to the world, you’re not going to be motivated to do better.
Let’s face it, we all love to hear that our work is wonderful.
How about ringing in the new year with 3 simple goals for your photography?
Thanks to computers and the internet, many of these suggestions are not that difficult anymore. Used to be you had to be a bit of a computer whiz but software has made things a lot easier. Continue reading Simple photography goals for the new year→
In my previous post “Photographing a belly dancer,†I mentioned how you have to make do when you don’t have control over the lighting and access to the performing/dance area.
