Blog Post 7: Photography

When I think of photography, my primary emotions are that of annoyance and boredom. My most common experiences with photography are placed at events such as family reunions and vacations where there's always someone who wants to take five million pictures of the five million combinations of family members in front of five million different backgrounds. Of course, the process must be repeated immediately with a different camera, too. I know these instances aren't meant to be professional, artistic photography where every little detail makes a difference in the final product, but that doesn't change the fact that I absolutely hate having my picture taken.

When I'm on the other side of a camera, though, my feelings completely change. As a photographer, I'm about as inexperienced as photographers can be. However, I absolutely love to edit pictures with photoshop. "Photoshopping" will always be my favorite form of photography, whether the goal is to submerge myself and a group of friends into a scene from "The Lord of the Rings" or to design a puzzle that makes the viewer ask "How did he do that?"

Unfortunately, I'm rather inexperienced with all forms of photography--even "photoshopping." I've always enjoyed viewing photographs of sunsets, mountains, and other impressive landscapes, and I've always thought it would be fun to capture scenes like that on film, but good cameras are so overwelmingly expensive and I never have the time or money to simply drop everything and go on a photo-taking road trip. Excluding pictures from the photoshop-world, I've never really liked pictures of humans, animals, buildings, etc. I'm not completely sure why I dislike these pictures. It could be that when I take the time to admire a photograph, I'm not looking at it to figure out what kind of an argument the photographer is trying to make; I'm simply admiring the beauty what's captured in the photograph itself.