I had taken a love and sold it for money. Having time to reflect on things as the dust settled, I got a handle on what had gone wrong. I hate chasing trends, and I’m not a fan of how wedding and portrait photography has gone to magazine-style flare-and-saturation shooting. I’m a pragmatist, and I knew that it wasn’t sustainable to stay in the business with billables dropping and expenses increasing.
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Photographers were needing to upgrade computer hardware more often to keep up. My mobile 3-light studio was sitting idle, old clients weren’t doing any new commercial work. But as digital matured the upgrade cycle got shorter and shorter. I still do some graphic design and layout from time-to-time. I considered doing video, or learning web design to augment my digital photography business. Once the digital tide had come all the way in, everyone and their sister was shooting DSLR for peanuts and bookings started to drop off. I know, but that 10D (and later the 5D Classic) and I made a bundle of money together. Just as medium format was sinking its teeth into me, I made the business decision to jump on the digital bandwagon, selling both systems for a Canon 10D. I stepped up to Canon EF upon entering college, quickly outgrowing the plastic Rebel and going for a thrashed ex-press EOS-1N, then a Hasselblad. After I got paid to shoot a wedding, I realized how far out of my depth I was and looked into some education. I enjoyed shooting for myself, and hung some pictures on my wall.
The actions I could understand, but the science behind the controls were still a mystery. Soon I was able to tweak the controls to see better images, though I couldn’t tell you what they were called or why. I’m a technical person by nature, I like working out systems and manipulating them to get a result. I shot a load of Kodak 200, came away with few decent shots but the hit-rate was embarrassingly low. It might have been two-hundred dollars including the ubiquitous Sunpak and a shoulder bag. It was a Canon T50 with a 50mm and an off-brand zoom. Camera review: The Rolleiflex MX - EMULSIVE Close Search for:Īt 18, I traveled to England for seven weeks and bought my first camera from a pawn shop before leaving.