today i want to share a closet dream of mine - i would love to be a great photographer. for the longest time i thought that my pics weren't as great as other's out there because i was working with a lesser quality equipment - so i was desperately coveting a fancy fance camera. THEN i read an article from a fellow blogger out there sharing images that a friend had captured on her iphone {see article here}. iphones are nice but the camera i use is definitely an upgrade from a phone camera and her shots were about a zillion times more awesome than anything i had ever captured. so it turns out that while nice cameras are great and all you've got to have an eye for staging & shooting to make anything beautiful or interesting turn out. then i see a yet another hopeful caveat... darby from {fly through my window} talks about her camera {here} surely because every single picture she takes is pure gorgeousness & everyone wants to know more. not to take anything away from darby's photography skills but most things she shoots are not styled or manipulated at all and are just breathtaking on their own so seeing those beautiful shots of everyday life make me think that a fancy camera could make all the difference. 
i would like to try out a fancy camera a few times and see what i am capable of. i don't want to go out and spend a huge bundle on something that i'm not even qualified to use, and even worse - continue taking wretched pictures & just add a giant price tag. what do you all think? do any of you out there in blogland have a nice camera with adjustable lenses? was it worth it? do you feel like your pictures look drastically different after your purchase? i would love to know more about the topic since i am such a novice & definitely have some interest.right now i don't know that i could ever justify spending the hundreds of dollars on one but a few years down the road when we start having babies i'm thinking i would really love to have a way to either improve my photography skills, get a fancy camera or do whatever other alternative there is to get some gorgeous shots of our non-existent kids & future family.{image provided by flickr & linked to owner}
right now we use a great little cannon point and shoot... and it is pretty good... but my husband and i are saving up for a nikon slr... our dream camera! ;)
ReplyDeletei really really want darby's. A and i have talked about how badly we want a nice camera. so someday, i think we will save up and buy one (when we get married!) i will listen to darby and get that nice camera of hers. then maybe take a basic photography class so i know how to use the darn thing and take beautiful pictures like darbys!
ReplyDeleteI am also coveting a nice camera - maybe someday!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a super nice camera we have a canon point and shoot but I love it. I've always been envious of people who can capture beautiful images in photographs.
ReplyDeleteThe more I read, the more I see that us bloggers are always desiring better, more professional-looking pictures. I know I do! A fancy, schmancy camera is on my wish list, too. Is it necessary? absolutely not! Would it be a ton of fun if you have a passion for photography? Absolutely!! I say, go for it if you can swing it! Great post! :)
ReplyDeleteoh I am in the process of saving for one- but I think it will be awhile :) I hope to have one by the time we start having kids too! I can't decide between canon or nikon, i have heard arguments for both, but in the end i'll probably take darby's advice on a camera- haha!
ReplyDeleteAGREED!! with everyone else's posts. I told Seth I wanted a nicer camera when we had kids and he said, "WHY???" He so does not get it. I have a couple of other cameras that I've used from photography classes before, but they are film and not digital. I'm going to trade them in and get digital eventually. So much more practical now. Let's all start saving!
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