photography

I don't know, ever since getting my nikon d90 in October I've taken probably close to 5- or six-thousand photos. Not that they're all keepers and surely leaving the camera in continuous shot mode results in a lot of accidental duplicate images (is this one better or this other one?). Still, I'm shooting something almost every day. And it's not like I have such a wide variety of subjects, either. I rarely go anywhere so I've just about shot everything around the house that could make at least an ok picture. Doesn't keep me from looking though, or coming up with some new silly thing to try. It does present a particular creative challenge to try to see boring household items in interesting ways. I took pictures of the Weber for kry's sake.

My latest deal is flash photography. I never owned a flash back in the days of film, and cameras then didn't have built in, pop-up flashes. So I've been playing around with an SB-600 speedlight, bouncing it off walls, white cardboard, or through stuff trying to get a soft, diffuse quality of light that doesn't look like a flash. It's been kinda fun, and kinda dumb. The SB-600 is great in that it doesn't have to be fastened to the camera's hotshoe to work. It can be triggered remotely by my camera's built in flash and any camera tripod can be used as a light stand. I've realized this flash I have will suffice for a lot of the things I want to do, but I don't want to buy a lot of add-on equipment that's available to make it do all of the things that bigger studio strobes do better. My goal is to have proper lights to take portraits of friends and family so I think my next move is get a hold of some gear that is really designed for that.