Day 1 - Sunday, April 22, 2012

Introduction:

I have never been into the blogosphere much.  I don't usually read a whole lot of blogs, and I would never really expect people to pay much attention to what I would have to say online.  My experiences with other people on the internet vary, but the overwhelming majority of them can be summed up by the following statement: "The internet is the playground for assholes."

All that being said, I'm starting up this blog as part of a project that I will be doing for the next 364 days.  Each day I will go out and take a picture of something--it doesn't matter of what or whom.  I'll try to add some extra information about the picture for anyone interested (assuming this blog ever has someone read it.)

One (assuming one reads this) might ask, "why are you doing this?"  It's a good question.  The main reason why I'm going to do this is to help develop my photography skills.  Photography is a hobby for me.  I don't get paid to take pictures, although I think it would be wonderful to do so.  Another reason, is the fact that I stumbled upon this project while looking for information on photographing a wedding.  I thought it might be a beneficial idea--so now here we are.

I might not post every day, but the goal is to take at least one picture every day.  As this is 
the first day, I'm adding in some information below incase anyone might be interested.

What I currently take my photographs with

Camera Body:
Nikon D7000

My lenses:Nikon 35mm AF-S f/1.8

Nikon 70-300mm AF-S f/4-5.6 VR

Tokina 11-16mm ATX f/2.8.

Flashes:
SB-400 Speedlight

SB-600 Speedlight (on the way, currently)

My photography history:

My first dSLR I purchased was a Nikon D3100 last February, amidst the massive protesting of Governor Walker.  My reason was simple:  I didn't have a decent camera to help document a once in a generation type protest.  It was an impulse buy--yes, but now here we are over a year later.  I ended up selling the D3100 to help purchase the D7000.  The main reason behind the upgrade was due to the D7000 having its own AF Drive Motor in it.  As a happy coincidence, it is arguably the best non-full-frame camera out there currently.  I personally tend to shoot prime lenses (although I currently only have one.)  Simply put, the price/quality ratio you can get from shooting primes greatly outweighs shooting with zooms (and the price is the most important part for me, as I don't make money with my shooting.)

Back to the photograph...

This photograph was taken outside of my parents' house.  A flower blossom on some sort of tree (I really have no idea and didn't bother to ask.)  I know that they don't stay in blossom for long, so I thought it might make for some sort of unique photograph.  Perhaps it isn't the best way to start this blog, but it will have to do.  I did all of my editing in Lightroom 3 (vignette added, boosted clarity, fixed distortion, fixed color, watermark added)  The original photograph can be seen here.

A side note:  I cannot stand how when I start a new sentence near the right border, the double space to start indents in.  /rant