I’ve been feeling very uninspired lately. Well, sort of. Maybe uninspired is the wrong word here.
Frustrated?
I can’t seem to make myself bring out the camera. I was doing good until the whole surgery thing. I was way too drugged up and in pain to be thinking about my camera and of course my photoblog has really suffered because of it.
It needs to be cleaned (the camera). I cleaned it about a month ago, but the sensor is already dusty again. This is why one should invest in a pro DSLR.
At the time that I bought my camera (Canon 30D) I was running a portrait and wedding photography studio and needed to upgrade from the 10D. I could have gotten a MarkII but I just couldn’t justify the price difference when I don’t need that much resolution really. Now I would have happily paid extra for the body. Living in west Texas just kills a digital camera.
I’ll be taking it to Odessa Camera next week. In the mean time I think I’ll start my own little project of using my wife’s point and shoot for a week or so. I guess until my camera gets out of the shop.
Yeah, I’ll make myself be creative using a good old point and shoot. It’ll remind me of some of the frustrations that some of my photo tips readers go through in honing their craft.
I feel like a sham of a photographer when I think about the fact that I never really used Polaroid. Now it’s almost gone and I’m saddened by the fact that I’ll probably never get to truly love and enjoy all that Polaroid had to offer as an artistic medium.
Let’s start from the beginning. I learned photography in high school. You know, that analog stuff that was before the digital age. I used my dad’s really old Chinon camera and I thought it was the coolest camera because no one else had one.
In photo-journalism class I learned alot. For example; a dark room is the perfect place to hold a makeout session with your girlfriend.
All kidding aside, we actually had a great teacher. She knew which students wanted to learn and which ones took the class as a blow off class and she worked well with everyone that way. I was one of those kids that went back in forth. My nature in high school was to make every class a blow off class by friending both the teacher and the best student. It usually worked well for me. I got by on charisma and a great smile.
We did work with pinhole cameras and polaroids, learned how to develop our own film in the dark room, burning and dodging, the whole nine yards. I loved it.
That was the last time I ever used a Polaroid though. In high school. I’m almost 30 now and I don’t know if Polaroid is truly dead, but I certainly hope not.
Have a good weekend.
It’s been quite a day today. While most of the posts in this personal blog will be photography related, I do have to start by saying that I’m extremely excited about the NHL playoffs this year. As you may or may not know, I do reside in Texas and I am a huge fan of the Dallas Stars. Currently they are one win away from heading to the Western Conference Finals and I’m really stoked. I like the teams chances this year for bringing home the cup.
On a more grim note, I spent most of the day at the hospital getting preregistered for surgery. While it isn’t anything serious, I do understand that getting your tonsils removed is fairly uncomfortable.
In truth, the thing that bothers me the most is I’ll probably not be able to update the Your Photo Tips website for that week. I’ll post on friday morning before the opp, and maybe I’ll be okay to get something else in by the following Tues? I’ve got a couple of articles in the bag so I really just have to do some final editing and hit the publish button.
I’ve been completely neglecting my photoblog A Cognitive State of Mind lately. It’s a real shame because I’ve been getting quite a bit of exposure for it. My only real excuse is that I haven’t been able to pull myself away from the family since the new one arrived.
As soon as I’ve recovered from the surgery, which is supposed to be like 10 days, I’ll be hitting the streets with my camera in hand.
