Part of the introduction is to study photos used in advertising and as additions to text in newspapers and magazines. The National Geographic has some lovely pictures of the inside of a Vietnam cavern [January 2011, pp104-111]. The vastness of the cave and the insignificance of the human in the foreground gives a great sense of scale.
The choise of photos in the James Blunt 'on the road' book shows some more original shots. Not the usual 'here I am as a child', 'growing up', etc.
Looking at the current newspapers on-line, while there are some interesting photos, most are just there to show the person/persons that are included in the article. Some of the war/drama stories cover better shots, more dramatic.
So, on to 'getting to know your camera'. As I have previously mentioned I have printed off the full manual for my new camera. I have gone for a 'bridge' digital camera, which is a halfway house between a compact and a digital SLR. The rason for this was mostly cost and me not really knowing what type of SLR to go for. I bought a Pentax 35mm SLR when I first went migrated from a compact 110 camera back in the early 80's. The Pentax was, and I have to say, still is a lovely camera, but it was the Ricoh body I purchased a year later that became my workhorse. It was easier to take manual photos, but still allowed auto, point and click too. I do not know enough about digital SLR's yet to make that jump. One day.
'Getting to know your camera'...
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