[caption id="attachment_21529" align="alignnone" width="620"] Me with my DSLR, Photo: Casey Cosley[/caption]
As much preparation and study that I put in to the first two weeks of owning my camera, I learned all my biggest lessons and reached my most unsurmountable breakthroughs from just using the darn thing.
I had been telling myself that I wanted to get into photography for too long.
Owning a camera doesn’t make you a photographer any more than having a pet goldfish makes you a marine biologist. So how do you go from camera owner to photographer, or even professional photographer?
The typical conference usually involves a speaker, a not-so-comfy chair, long discussions, maybe a Q&A session at the end, and seldom seeing much outside the walls of whatever hotel is hosting the event. Yeah, Field Trip is like that — in none of those ways.
[caption id="attachment_41750" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Van Dyke-style processing by Daniel Gregory[/caption]
I picked up a camera as a kid and loved being able to photograph pretty much anything I found interesting. I didn’t give much thought to why or how the camera worked: I just stuck in a cartridge of 110 film and went out into the world to explore.
The plethora of choice is overwhelming. With so many camera lenses available for so many unique types of photography, determining which lens is right for you can be a challenging endeavor.