Sunday, February 21, 2010

To continue...

on my previous post. I feel this will be the new trend for my blogging. I can find no other way to make my ramblings make any sense than to just add on to what I was trying to say before. I love my distractions and I am so thankful for them. For sanity reasons I need to sleep when they sleep. Boden is 10 months old now but since I need my full 8 hours of sleep to just be nice I need to just do it that way. SO, taking time to do things after bedtime is out right now. Right now Hali and Leiton are at the park skating with Steve. Following that they are going to pick up some groceries and bring home dinner. What more can I ask for in a Sunday afternoon? Boden is getting angry at me for plopping him in his exersauser so I better make this quick. What I have realized about my photography learning is basically I need a new camera. I have a Kodak EasyShare c330 which was given to me as a Christmas gift about 5 years ago. After some reading on the internet I realize I need a SLR camera. I do not want to invest that kind of money since I am just learning from ground zero. I am wondering, should I start with a SLR camera that uses film since they are SO much cheaper on Ebay or should I just start with a newer digital camera with greater megapixels? Also, what kind of photoediting programs do people use? I have been using Picasa. I don't want to spend any money. If I start using a manual focusing camera lens do I really need photo editing that much? I want to achieve the look of an in-focus subject with a blurry background. I know, so many questions!! That's just a part of all that is going on in my head! ha ha.....kind of.

1 comments:

Vicky said...

Gosh, good photography questions... I couldn't begin to tell you. If I think of it, I'll run it past Rick if you'd like and see what he suggests in the way of SLR camera's. You can purchase photoshop elements rather inexpensively, it used to be about 60 dollars... it gives you a good range of use I understand without the cost of the full photoshop program. I use photobucket and picnic on occasion for editing, but they're similar to Picasa.