It was my sister's choir concert down in Manchester and me and my dad we’re driving over not only to show our support but to break out the old camera and get some pictures and footage to update their website :)Which meant I could zoom around with my dad’s Nikon feeling da bomb!
(I slightly regret typing that but I’m doing this thing where I write whatever comes into my head... I may later regret this decision but at the moment I’m really getting a lot done this way... any who)
I hadn’t used this camera in a while so I took some time getting used to the settings and once I’d taken a few dad-directed shots I was free to do what I wanted with the camera :D
So switching to art-mode I focused on searching for light against shadows from different angles. It was a lot cooler than it sounds (honestly!) You see... when you look through the lens of a camera and you get a musician’s head just eclipsing the light or a silhouetted soloist singing into darkness and that ever so slight smile. Those are the moments I’m trying to capture. Not to the liking of my dad, who likes the traditional portrait/ landscape photos – I just see no depth to those anymore. Studying art has really given me a different view on little things like that; I mean there’s so much more you can get from a photo.
I love using this old camera, but when I say old I mean the complete opposite! You see my dad’s really into photography, it’s always been a hobby of his so he’s invested wisely in his cameras and the latest in his collection is this very new Nikon, and the features on this thing are amazing. But I'm still quite happy with my little Fuji at home, it used to be my dad’s too but I’ve been ‘borrowing’ it for a while now so I’ve decided to claim it as my own :)
I shall get some photos up from that up soon-ish...







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