#16 – PHOTOGRAPHY

The Adventure – Becoming Paparazzi

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Well…most photos probably aren’t worth much of anything if you don’t know what you’re doing with that camera in your hand, so I enrolled into a photography course with Focal Point Studios. After all, I had this spanky new Nikon D90 that I knew how to turn on and off – which was, sadly, the extent of my knowledge.

So, after 10 weeks of training compressed into a 5 week program, I was ready to capture my entire world with just one click.

I was shooting photos at weddings, doing family portraits, capturing anything of interest – not to mention visually documenting my adventures

Interesting Photography Factoids

Photography is from the Greek word meaning ‘Painting with Light’.
In 1836, the first practical camera, the daguerreotype, was created by Louis Jacques Daguerre.
In 1840, black and white photos were retouched with watercolours in order to make them coloured.
In 1861, James Maxwell (a British physicist), took the first colour photograph.
In older photos, no one smiled because it took a long time to expose the picture – sometimes up to 20 minutes. Smiles and blinks would result in a blurry image.

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