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I’ve always been a terrible photographer, which you might have noticed from my reviews of First Class flights, but I’ve enjoyed others’ photography more than any other visual art.
I finally decided to learn a bit about photography and bought myself a used full-frame DSLR and a good 50mm prime lens. This sets me up to do portrait photography of the interesting people I meet during my full-time travels.
I’m enjoying it so much that I’ll pick up a new lens next time I’m in the United States–Argentina camera prices are insane–so I can do more landscape shooting of the cool places I go.
I plan to learn things as needed. After I shot my first few friends and looked at the photos, I decided to start learning about Lightroom and Photoshop.
After I got some nasty shadows outside, I bought a reflector/diffuser and learned how to use them.
When I want to shoot at night or inside, I’ll learn more about that.
Follow @scottgrimmer to follow my travels and progress as a photographer. Share any tips or critiques on the photos there or the comments here.
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Scott
I TOAD u about photos years ago the blog loves Data , Good deals and Correct advise..That’s nice people are in ur photos But it’s the Views that count and Sarah has done a Fine job on that ..
Put the links in the post like Sarah does and above too.
I got 4 cc in 7 weeks and 5 cc in 3 months and 400K airline points left Best Ever .
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The portraits are fantastic. Keep at it!
I had to go to website to view photos. In Mozilla Thunderbird they did not show up.