I’ve really started getting into digital photography now, to the point where I’m even considering going a little crazy when I have enough money to buy one of these bad boys (Canon EOS 350D).
Admittedly, so far I’ve really only taken simple one-press shots, rather than painstakingly tweaking apertures etc. to get the right look, but, it’s infectious.
A while ago I made a calendar through the nice people at PhotoBox (highly recommended by the way) for my folks as a Christmas present—it went down a storm. And, was easily one of the most fun days I’d had in the winter months in the run up to the holiday, walking around London with one of my old flatmates.
Although these images are just the ones dumped straight from my memory card, I ended up tweaking them in Photoshop for some time - ended up into the early hours the day before the deadline for Calendar orders, d’oh! - and it was a really, really interesting and rewarding experience for someone who spends most of their day with code—creative outlets are good! Incidentally, anyone else who has no idea how to use Photoshop, I can highly recommend Katrin Eismann’s Retouching & Restoring book, it single-handedly changed my opinion!
But back to Flickr, the limited account was just a little too limited, so I figured that $25 was a small price to pay for a whole lotta stuff, so I upgraded.
What’s really great is that since upgrading my Typo install I’ve also noticed the addition of filters for adding both Flickr images, and, Lightbox. Although the Typo codebase does look a tad complicated right now, I like that it’s got these kinds of things added.
So, to anyone who’s a little like I felt before (self-conscious of taking any photos and feeling like a tourist in my own City), I’d say get over it, give it a go, and Flickr-it-up there, it’s awesome fun! Now all I need is that Canon!