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I’ve been practicing photography for several years now. In that time, I’ve transitioned from being an amateur, pointing and shooting without much consideration for composition to being significantly more compositionally assured and intune with what I’m creating as I look through the viewfinder. My taking up of photography was born from my interest in cinema — being unable to afford to make films at that point, I took on a somewhat more affordable medium to hone my visual eye.
Photography has been a part of me for almost a decade now. My nikon is a companion, an old reliable friend. It’s a process that I’ve nurtured throughout my twenties, as I’ve grown and changed and challenged myself as a person, I’ve done the same with my photography. As I’ve developed as a person, I’ve developed as a photographer.
- Patience is Essential
Patience is one of the fundamental qualities for a photographer. Solid pictures often don’t just ‘come’ and it can take years of study and practice to begin snapping them with relative ease, to have that sense of composition and technical understanding ingrained as you pan the area before you, framing the images. Patience is especially…
