Originally posted by Teugeounic Snow
I don't know the first thing about photography (I'm the music guy art-wise, seriously), but I still thought I'd comment that I really love the first and last ones you posted - the dam and the train (both taken from a high angle (?)).
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of equipment do you use for taking these, and how much effort goes into each one? They're all very nice.
Thank you so much!
I actually use really basic equipment for my photography. It’s all taken on my Droid Razr M phone through an app called
Camera ZOOM FX. My process is not really all that exciting and it’s usually just the result of me keeping an eye out for things that could be interesting or fun to capture.
When I’m out picture-shooting, I think about things like what sort of viewpoint I want, how I want the picture to be framed/composed and what I want my picture to convey. Lately, because I just relocated to a new city, it’s been about how wonderful I find my surroundings to be and what sort of interesting or new ways I can show them that other people may not have seen before.
I’ve taken a bunch of fun pictures already with my phone (if you look on my
Instagram, there are currently over 900 photographs and for each photograph that gets uploaded there’s probably at least ten that don’t make the cut) and I’m reaching the point where I feel the limitations of a camera phone instead of a real camera. Like, I’m starting to find details that I want to capture but can’t and that’s starting to be really frustrating. Like, I really wish I could control things like shutter speed since motion blur seems fun to play with.
Currently, I have something of an unofficial mini-project where I’m trying to find the best view of Mount Rainier within Seattle so I’ve been taking lots and lost of pictures facing southeast with the mountain is looming over off in the distance.
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