Thoughts on Photography

I think every photographer has problems from time to time when it comes to having inspiration and ideas for new photography. I'm no different in this respect! The past month was horrible - I couldn't find any new inspiration. Quite often, when you're not inspired and you realize that, your self-confidence as a photographer disappears which can result in prolonged laziness and no photography activity whatsoever.


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Bert Stephani has posted recently a blog article "Be an Assistant". I had a great pleasure to be his assistant in his recent Diva Shoot, where he invited a bunch of women to his studio (called 'The Barn), and he shot portraits in two different sets. We met a week before the shoot to prepare the sets, which was also lots of fun. Although my assisting during the shoot was mainly about taking behind the scenes pictures, I have to say that even during such assisting, I learned a lot.


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I was looking over some of my older photography gear few weeks ago and obviously I ran across my old film cameras and old memory cards from my first digital cameras. I started to recall the times of film photography and compare it with the experience of the digital world.


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One of the most interesting (and probably unexpected features when Aperture 3 was first released) is the possibility to edit and compile movies from pictures, videos and sound files. I already heard from few people the following question: Ok, but iMovie does the same thing, so why do I need the same feature in Aperture 3? Some of you would react quite right saying that it's finally possible to manage both pictures and videos from one application (Aperture 3) and compile a nice movie within it. I agree, the video features and the possibility to create slideshows with audio and video from within...


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