I never thought that photography was in me. And I don’t know how to write about it. But I had an eye for artistic stuff. I think it started with me having my 1st mobile camera phone, or so I think. I remember buying a Sony Eriksson mobile only because it had a 3.2MPixel cyber shot camera back in 2006. And I didn’t have a point & shoot. I just moved to DSLR directly after holding a Canon EOS 400D in my hands for the 1st time back in late 2007, I fell in a perfect love that changed my life.
I still shoot with the same camera that I bought back in February 2008. It is a Canon 400D waiting to be changed to an EOS 7D. To me, photography is not just a hobby. It is a self-reflection. I tend not to shoot in landscape, or macro, or studio photography. And it’s not a thing I see myself good at. If I want to describe my photography (as most of my friends call it)I would call it randomness of life and thoughts. It is a collection of moments that you can relate to in any moment and you could have had in your daily life thousands of times. This is what triggers my photography.
I take photographs without much light setting or exposure care. I’m not a fan of total sharpness and perfect contrast (though the 50mm f1.8 is my friend). You could see me going to the beach with the 50mm because I’m not a “photographically technical” hobbyist. I’d rather think of myself as an “emotionally involved” hobbyist. I love the dreamy feel of the depth of field when shooting at low aperture values.
The idea of the randomness of this life reflects in most of my photography as a passionate photographer who tends to try to understand the words in the photographs without the words. I try to put life in another perspective because what’s a photographer if he/she sees life like everybody else. A photographer is someone who sees stuff that people around him don’t see.
A photographer is an observer, and this is where I use my zoom lens that I’m not totally happy with, but it does a fair job sometimes and gives me occasional happiness when I’m stealing moments of people’s lives.
Music triggers my photography’s creative juices most of the times. I just discovered that I can’t work properly on photography processing without music in my ears. I tend to link my photos to an idea or a quote or a life reflection. It is what I like to call a “visual thought” or a “dip in a dream”. Thank John Mayer for this kind of inspiration, most of the time.
I’m thankful for the chance I’ve been given and I hope you enjoyed this journey with me.
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Ya salaam I felt like I’m the one who’s writing this :p
7ilooo waid 7iloo o inshallah you get what you want soon !
Interesting point of view, and the image of the child proves that the so-called “rules” of composition are not cast in stone. You obviously are flexible in your point of view and are off to a good start. Its not what you use, its what you see and that you took the time to make the image. Good light and as the late great Sal Dimarco used to say, happy snaps.