Hello Steemit!
Today I want to write about how to start off in photography and about how I got to call myself a nature photographer now.
My story all started off at the beginning of 2016. I watched a lot of travel vlogs and films in that time. I wanted to create pictures and videos too! So I grabbed my mobile phone and got out taking photos.
I live in a very rural area so being a nature photographer was pretty easy as it gave me a lot of awesome compositions to work with.
Fast forward to Christmas that year I got a DSLR. A canon t5i (700D) to be exact. I still use this camera now and bought another lens for it, the 50mm f1.8 as I wrote in another blog.
The main reason I wanted a DSLR is that I really wanted to
control the aperture of the lens, which I couldn't with my phone (a Lumia 950 at that time, which has an AMAZING camera).
Pretty much every day I was home I went out shooting. I watched a lot of tutorials online which taught me a lot about photography like the rule of thirds, lighting (Peter McKinnon and TravelFeels are some very good ones nowadays).
After getting a DSLR I almost immediately switched over to shoot in manual. It so much better because you have so much more control over what your photo is going to look like.
Later on, I also switched to shooting in raw and editing my pictures. I was and still am a quality hungry monster when it comes to image quality. I also bought an image editing software (Cyberlink Photodirector 8), which I still use because I don't want to pay for Lightroom. I gotta say that I'm very happy with this software despite it crashing now and then.
I don't travel much unfortunately so I usually go to places I have been to before. I got a bike in summer 2017 which extended my reach by quite a lot and I got to see places that I have never been to before.
But now in winter, I'm struggling to get photos for my Instagram because I can only get so far. Recently I have been trying to get deeper in the woods and exploring all the roads that lead into them.
That it for this post!
I hope you liked it!
See you in my next post,
ProRed