Starting Out.

Over the past several years, I've had many people ask me how to get started in photography. When I first started pursuing photography seriously, I found a great series of lessons online from a website called, Digital SLR Guide, and went through them. I always recommend these photography lessons from this site. The Digital SLR Guide has two different sets of lessons - Beginning and Intermediate Lessons, and both sets have five different lessons within the set. The Beginner series talks about how to operate a Digital SLR and the Intermediate set discusses Lighting. The writer is terrific at explaining the different concepts and gives great assignments at the end of each lesson that reinforce that concepts that were taught in the lesson. The one drawback about the lessons is that they are not accredited, but I hardly consider this an in issue, because the knowledge you gain from these lessons have far greater value than a couple of college credits. One of the absolute best perks from these lessons is the price - each set of lessons only cost $14.95!!! So if you go through both the Beginner and the Lighting lessons, you only spend $29.90!!! Seriously!!! $29.90 for a wealth of valuable information. So if you are looking to start out in photography, take better pictures, or whatever, I highly recommend these lessons. I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed.

Photography Lessons

So here's my new venture -not writing a blog, but writing a photography blog. My plan for this blog is to write about all things photography - my experiences, thoughts, photos, etc.

And here's my thought for today.

I have a confession. It's slightly embarrassing, but I've had way worse embarrassing moments, and this particular confession hardly holds a candle to those particular moments. About a year and half ago, I signed up to take a photography course from New York Institute of Photography. (For those of you who are looking to take your photography skills to the next level, I highly recommend this course) It was great, I started reading through the lessons, and completing the work. And then life caught up to me - I was pregnant. And this pregnancy wasn't easy. Suddenly doing something as simple as working through a bunch of photography lessons became a difficult task. My studying came to a halt. Sad. After my son was born, my life became even more hectic. The idea of getting any studying done was a joke. Such a disappointing feeling. I felt like I let myself down. I had a wealth a knowledge, sitting there on the book shelf, but I had neither the time, nor the energy to put any effort into it. But life is easier now, and my son is older. So you know what? I'm working through those lessons again. This time I'm determined to finish. Even if it kills me!

Stay tuned for more photography blogs. (Does that sound cheesy?) Ok, nevermind. Just come back often.