Photography Blog.

I'm finally going to bite the final bullet and create a photography blog. Lele Green has a beautiful page up that is inspiring me to take the leap. I have a Flickr page, and a Myspace page (both located under "For Your Entertainment" links towards the bottom here, should you be bored enough to check them out), and I guess I need to learn how to market myself properly now. I feel my techniques are getting stronger the more I practice. I've been out with Tabitha Hawk a couple of times and she's really helping me creatively as far as textures and angles go. Out of all the essentials necessary to a great photo, textures and angles are my favorite, my focus. I've only done one wedding, and I'm not exactly sure how to go about getting things such as engagement photos. I'm mostly a "take a picture of anything" photographer--food, nature, buildings, events, etc. I've got a few musician friends who I'm going to try to bribe into modeling for me, because I think I've taken enough of J, plus he's really uncomfortable in front of a camera since he's more a songwriter than musician. I need to meet up with other, more experienced photographers to see how they direct their subjects, frame, and set up. And as I said in my previous post, I need to learn Photoshop. That's the only good thing I can about my not knowing Photoshop--if I take a really good photo, it's because it's a good photo, not because I knew how to trick it on the computer. Now I need to take a good photo, and enhance it to look even better. Once I get my Mac, I'll be able to start bumbling through CS3. I think I'm also going to sign up for the 9 week Photography class at Watkins to meet others and learn some tricks. Most of any spare cash will be saved towards my trip to Rome next summer, but I'm going to see if maybe I can also try to save for a different lens. Photography is an expensive damn hobby. Then again, so is painting. No wonder artists are starving.
Gah. I'll start working on the blog very soon. Then figure out where to go from there. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up since I've got such a strong support group.
LC.