Whew, Photography isin’t easy. You need the camera, the software,the online storage and so on. Not to mention the accessories.
I bought a Nikon D40x a few weeks ago and haven’t stopped playing with it since. Which is one reason the blog has been suffering. Got a 55-200mm lense in addition to the supplied 18-55mm lense. And a flash and tripod for night shooting. Though I might have to take the tripod back and get a better model.
After thinking about the moment for a while I finally settled on Smugmug mainly because I get a kick from dealing with faceless corporations everyday (not 🙂 ). Take a look at their About us page to see what I mean .Plus they really have a good reputation.
I’ve got a few photo’s from holiday (4,300, to be exact – I went overboard). A good portion of that is from Luxor, Egypt and they’ll be the first ones up once I get them sorted. And I’ll cross-post the best of the best here.
I came within a whisker of splashing out and buying the Educational version of CS3 Design ( I qualify as a Second Year undergraduate). Though I definitely get it next month. What really sealed it was the fact that Smugmug has a CS3 add-on for uploading your newly tweaked shot from within CS3. I’m getting it mainly for Photoshop, but Acrobat and Illustrator would be useful as well.
Once I have that I can start shooting in RAW and acting like a proper photographer 🙂 .
One thing that really would make life easier is a WHS Add on for Uploading straight to Smugmug from your Photos folder.
As a side note I subscribe to Thomas Hawks’ Blog. He has some really great shots.
Also see this list of the best photoblogs of 2007.
Great things to come…
Random Musings 