José Miguel's blog

I´m a mature man (46), so 18 months ago when I bought my first camera (a Panasonic fz7), I was thinking only in a device to get sharp (in the way a newbie understand it) photographs. But when you begin to learn (in my case through the internet), Photography can be very addictive. So I begun to spend time and money on it, buying first a d40 with some basic lenses, and now a d300 with some others, What a passion for my 46!. 

As a newbie without any artistic background (I´m a matehematician), and no previous photo vices, I think I have "discovered" some facts about photography I would like to share with you (sure only personal opinions)

a) It doesn´t matter what camera or lenses you can have, or places you can visit. The only important matter is the way you "see" things around you! 

b) Digital photography is (for me) a mix of two different steps,(and both can be equually funny)  taking, and editing. You must master some editing software to control the result of the first step.

c) The way people value a photograph is very subjective. The same photograph can have different ratings in different moments and different webs. For instance, the same photo I can publish in onexposure.net ( a very restrictive place) with very good ratings, can be ignored in flickr, ipernity or Photo.net, And viceversa, and any mix. So, to get an accurated view on your work, you have to get as much different views as you can....

d) My last discovery...... My name is Jose and I am a photo-addict.....

 

Happy! My congrats to Germany for a great match, but at last, after many years....we're the champions!!!!!!!!!

The hole

I´m happy today . Focus Magazine (http://www.inqmnd.ca/site/#focus3) has published one of my photos!

I bought my two cameras (panasonic fz7 and nikon d40) a year ago. Since then, I´d been learning and shoting everywhere (almost 70.000 shots). The pics I show in my photostream are all made in this time.  But in the last month, I have not been able to take any decent shot. And so, day by day, to shot had become rare...... When I see the pics I take, they seem to me uninteresting ...

I guess this is a typical photo crisis, that most of you have suffered. Or maybe it´s just that I have nothing else to shot, but the truth us that I haven´t shoted a good pic in the last month.

So I wonder, if this is a temporal crisis or if this means my photo inspiration is death? Do you have any experience in this kind of crisis?. If so, I should be happy to hear about the way to handle and overpass this situation.....

 

Finally, I´ve decided to travel to Morocco this summer. I´ll go with 2 friends, and we plan to carry our 4x4, from our island (Gran Canaria), as there is a regular ship from Fuerteventura to Tarfaya (south of Morocco). We will spend 10 days there travelling south-north till Marrakesh, and then south back to Tarfaya.

So, I was wandering if anybody here in Ipernity has ever travelled there, and can give any kind of advice......

By the way, my cameras will come with me   :-)