Fotomässan (photo fair) -09
This weekend I visited the annual Stockholm photo fair for the first time. It’s actually less than a year ago I bought my beloved Nikon D40 and got completely hooked on photography!
I’ve always liked drawing, but my patience isn’t the best, so I tend to get tired of whatever I’m drawing after about two hours. I have accomplished some OK stuff, but I don’t think I’ll ever be great as I don’t practice at all.
For me photography is amazing. I see something – snap – and there! Instant art! I’ve spent pretty much time doing this the last year, so I’m starting to know my camera and my three lenses well enough to know which lens to choose, the settings I need and how to compose images. I haven’t even started to feel the need of more equipment yet (although I’ve started to use Andreas’ tripods for some night photography).
I don’t read any literature on photography, I’m scared it’ll take the spontaneous feeling out of it and make it just another task. Although before buying my camera I spent a couple of days reading through Ken Rockwell’s site. He’s great and very inspiring!
The photo fair wasn’t really that interesting. Hardware isn’t my cup of tea, and even if I like the art part of photography, Brutus Östling and maybe a couple of other photographers were the only ones with interesting exhibitions.
But Andreas was happy to play with some giant telephoto lenses, we made a Hasselblad representative nervous by fingering a 189000:- camera a little too much and we got our Nikons checked and cleaned.
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