Saturday, February 27, 2010
photos.
i've been feeling sad that i don't take as many pictures as i once did. mostly because it means i'm not getting any better. being a good photographer used to be, i guess still is, a serious ambition, and i've really let it go. i'm not sure why; i'm not feeling compelled by what's around, i guess, even though i have a handsome husband and live in a beautiful place.
i figure all this is going to change when the chickpea arrives. faces are my favorite things to photoraph, and i'll have a vested interest not only in preserving images of his wee facelet but in making sure they're . . . something other than snapshot quality. i am going to photograph the hell out of this baby. i've been researching some lenses, and figured out two relatively fast primes i can buy used for around $200 a piece. i'm selling my film scanner to pay for them, since i don't think we'll need it anymore. i'll get the stuff i know i need to get the flash off-camera, and maybe upgrade some software, if the money holds. i know i'll be tired as shit and everything, but i can feel how excited i am about doing this, at least as much as exhaustion permits. and given that things have been a little anxious, happy excitement feels very good.
photographing my own baby. i only hope that somewhere, in all the images that result, there'll be a couple of him with me on the other side of the camera, too.
i figure all this is going to change when the chickpea arrives. faces are my favorite things to photoraph, and i'll have a vested interest not only in preserving images of his wee facelet but in making sure they're . . . something other than snapshot quality. i am going to photograph the hell out of this baby. i've been researching some lenses, and figured out two relatively fast primes i can buy used for around $200 a piece. i'm selling my film scanner to pay for them, since i don't think we'll need it anymore. i'll get the stuff i know i need to get the flash off-camera, and maybe upgrade some software, if the money holds. i know i'll be tired as shit and everything, but i can feel how excited i am about doing this, at least as much as exhaustion permits. and given that things have been a little anxious, happy excitement feels very good.
photographing my own baby. i only hope that somewhere, in all the images that result, there'll be a couple of him with me on the other side of the camera, too.
