A year ago, my husband and I went to Africa. What an amazing trip. How can you go to Africa without a camera? My husband researched and picked a smaller camera that he thought I should buy. He selected a Canon Power Shot SX30IS. What a great little camera. My sister started goofing around with it, thought it was kind of fun, so her husband bought her one.
Problem: We don't know much about photography, much less how to even use the camera.
Problem solved: Weekly lessons taught by my husband, a photo assignment to follow, assignment pictures downloaded and shared in dropbox for all to see. Well, not all; just the three of us. That was actually a bonus lesson, learning how to use dropbox. Everything in our family is a competition, so why not compete and challenge each other to becoming a better historian of life through the use of a camera?
A self-taught, incredibly passionate photographer, my husband is always reading, learning and perfecting some new technique. He has taken some truly amazing photos. He has gobs of camera gear and obsesses over the perfect camera bag. By the way, there is no such thing as the perfect camera bag. I have resigned myself to having a house filled with camera bags. My husband would argue it is shoes.
So far we have learned about shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. We have frozen motion, blurred the background, captured a sharp landscape, turned bright window lighting into a white background, and this week will be blurring to imply movement with a slow shutter speed. Listen to me!
We have been particularly impressed with ourselves for what we have been able to do, and it has been fun. Nothing but a win/win. We are becoming better photographers, and my husband has someone to share his passion with.
The end of March, our "photo class" will be meeting up for a weekend at the cabin. We will have an opportunity to review and discuss our successes and failures with the assignments. More importantly, we will have the opportunity to make some great food, drink some great wine (good won't do for this trip), ski, and capture it all on camera! By the way, this particular camera also has great video capability.
"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow." - Imogen Cunningham
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