Me and beckie have just got ourselves a nice new Digital SLR, I have been interested in photography for some time and have owned a film SLR since I was about 14. However since I got a compact digital camera, I had completely stopped using the SLR all together. Reviewing my photos over the last few months though I had started becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of the photos and decided it was about time to get a Digital SLR.
I have longed for one for many years but they have always been so far out of my price range there was no way I would be able to get one. However, Canon have recently launched the 1000D which is much cheaper than its predecessors yet gives us all the features we would ever need. Its not up to a professional grade but still a hundred times better than any compact digital camera. Now having my hands on it has re-ignited my interest in photography and I have really started to enjoy having such a useful piece of kit. Going digital is nothing like my old film camera, unlike with film there is nothing stopping you take as many photos as you like and because you can review them instantly you learn so much more about how to use your camera and about the aspects that make a great photo.
Now me and beckie are planning days out and trips to go places where we can take photos which will get us out at about more which should be fun. But also we have started a photography project which was an idear I read about here. The idea is you take a photo every day for a whole year, it encourages you to use your camera, and keeps your creative juices flowing as you need to think of a new photo every day, but most of all it enables you to better learn how to use your camera.
I have started uploading the photos that we have been taking to my flickr account which can be found here:
Andrew Murdoch / Beckie Austin: Photo Journal
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