Pixel Perfect

My first love in photography when I first could afford a film SLR was landscape photography. Naturally, that came with a love for travelling to places with great wonders of nature. There's something about being out there, standing small, up against the mountain so high, the sky so wide. I love it.

And then to try and capture what I see with my camera. Typically, I will try and try to adjust the perfect shutter speed and aperture, shoot and shoot, then keep my fingers crossed that the prints will come out great (those days, with film, you never know what you gonna get).

Batam, 2007

Nepal, 2002

South Africa, 2006

California, 2005

I don't get as much time doing landscape photography these days. I miss it. It has been overtaken by portrait photography. Which is, to me anyways, a completely different thing.

With landscape photography, my subjects - the mountains, seas, long stretches of beaches, amazing canyons and lakes, skies so blue, green gardens - all stand still for me as I attempt the perfect shot.

Portraits - I suck at it. My subject looks left, right, up and down. Fidgets. Runs. I am never quick enough. Sometimes, by the time I get my camera, the act is all over. My lighting is always inadequate, or too much. Once in a while, I get good ones. But never consistent. Which is frustrating. I wanna take better portraits of Matthew, and people in general. I want to take shots like they do in the studios. So nice.

Oh, and bless Steven Sasson for the invention of the digital camera. I can now practise without thinking about the costs of film and developing.

So practise I will, and improve I hope I will.