You've heard people use the idiom "I've seen the light!", and usually they mean something like "I finally understand", or, "I see it clearly now". But what does that have to do with photography? Well, pretty much everything.
After many years learning and using film photography as my medium, everything changed to digital, and I pretty much got out of taking photos for money or for myself. Oh, I had the mandatory PHD camera (press here dummy!), surviving on vacation snaps, for what they were worth, but stopped working on my personal image making altogether. Times had changed, I had moved on (or so I thought), and life progressed as it does. Recently I have found myself with some time on my hands and with access to lynda.com training, which is a wondrous combination for someone in my situation. Searching for interesting topics, I found a series on the "Foundations of Photography", and thought it might be good for refreshed look on how to explain basic photo concepts, or at least good for a laugh. After just a few minutes I realized how much more it was. I began about my photo work, what I wasn't doing with it, and wondering why I had stopped in the first place. Digital imaging has progressed so much over the last few decades as to be unrecognizable to that monstrous thing that replaced my precious film and chemistry so long ago. The advent of Lightroom and its powerful tools for manipulating a photographic image (so much like the old darkroom days), the technology that has far surpassed its primitive beginnings (remember $1000 two megapixel cameras?), and the joy of seeing new digital cameras based on old designs (with actual shutter speed dials on the body and apertures on the lenses!) have made this curmudgeon want to start photography all over again with fresh eyes and new inspirations. So I have now voraciously sucked up a couple of dozen lynda.com courses, from the very basics of composition and digital equipment use to understanding the intricacies of Lightroom and Photoshop. Each and every one of these videos has had something to say, some kind of insight or new perspective to teach. The most amazing thing about all of this? What I thought was going to happen... didn't.
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