Self Taught Photographer.

I don’t have some fancy story about how I got into photography. I don’t have childhood memories of playing with cameras, didn’t take a photography class. Back to being self taught- no classes, just shooting and photography was so much fun. The only thing I knew about lenses were some could zoom in far and some could shoot wide, they had numbers on them that I could care less about. All I cared about were getting great photographs. Photography was fun.I’m not ashamed to be self taught. I’m not ashamed that if you ask me what the range is on the lens that I’m using that I may look down at it and read it to you. I’m not ashamed that I can’t look at a sunset and tell you what aperture setting and shutter speed would be ideal – but I can shoot it and get the photo I want to get.

wide aperture setting & ideal shutter speed.

 I have a 3 thousand ringgit camera in my bag right next to a RM200 film vintage camera. They’re both real, they both take photographs, it’s up to me to make them great. Now a days people in the crowd have better equipment then the photographer shooting the event. Photographers need to accept that and accept the fact that it is their job to still get the best photographs.

  I could shoot an image with good DOF  with a point and shoot and get great photographs.Depth of field(DOF) is the amount of distance between the nearest and farthest objects that appear in acceptably sharp focus in a photograph.
 Now, I won’t pretend I’m an expert — or that I know everything there is to know about photography — because I am not, and who does?However, being self-taught helped me learn some valuable lessons the hard, painful, torturous way and therefore, guaranteed that I never forget them.