This is my first digital camera and I am really adding up serious clicking mileage with it.
A basic camera teaches us about the basics of photography.
And didn’t someone say that no photographer is as good as the simplest camera?
Someone also said this anonymously - buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer.
It just makes you a Nikon owner.
Just like a singer has to train his voice, a photographer needs to train his eyes.
Thanks to the Internet, we can become invisible apprentices to the shutterbugs who have clicked before us.
How effective could my low priced point and shoot be?
To unlearn that, I waded into the web searching for images clicked using the same camera.
But most of all I am learning how to capture the mood of a particular moment.
There are many ways we can search for photos by camera in Flickr and Picasa.
TheCamera Findertool is great for making an open minded judgment of a photo and a camera.
Flickr does this from the EXIF meta-data that’s part of the photos.
you’re free to punch any camera brand/model and check out the specs.
But as a photographer, I am interested in what my point and shooter shows for itself in Flickr.
Many photos, shot using a point and shoot are tagged with the Flickr Award too!
A worthwhile visit because Picasa Web Albums has just added the Search by Camera feature to help us out.
Searching through the tons of Google Search results is cumbersome.
I had also mentioned a service likeJunknstuffwhich lets you select a camera model for the image search.
Junknstuff doesn’t seem to be working right now.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
As these two tools might well prove, imitation can be the shortest path to learning too.
Do you agree with the usefulness of these two services?
Do you know of another similar service that adds to your photography?
