I was watching Joe McNally at Authors@Google an hour long but very inspiring... the ups & downs he goes through...
As far as I could remember I think the beginning of the beginning when we did primary school experiment on pin hole cameras... wow was impress that you can get an upside down image on the tracing paper...
After that, curiosity took place, where I explored my dad's 'prosumer' film camera... Minolta... i remember turning, churning, twisting, clicking, prying this camera... hahaha... i know where he kept it, in his DIY dry box... I think that is the end of the life of that camera. I did not see it anymore after that...
As years go by, we kept winning those point and shoot cameras, I remember the Pentax one, where to me at that time was so good and sophisticated... kept snapping photos here and there...
I had albums and albums of random photos....
A point where my life changed when I was at 17... when lo and behold, my sister won a 1st price for some Reader's Digest competition.. she won a Nikon F401 Wow... that was like a miracle! I immediately claimed that dream prize... anyway, nobody else was interested in photography in my family!
I read the manual like 50 times and new vocab was added into my tiny brain... like exposure, TTL, shutter speed, f-stops, etc... At that time I was also having a major exam, SPM at that time it was called which would determine my future... but hack the exams! :)
After the exams, with my trusty racing bike and home made camera bag with lots of sponges went cycling around chasing sunsets & sunrises and looking for wonderful sceneries to be captured....
I only had my kit lens and the body... the photos mountained up and guess what... i used shoe boxes to keep them as there were too many for album... psst... if u did not know where I got the name The Digital ShoeBox... it came from here :)
During the break, I
After another 1.5 years I went back to learn more than I was off to college learning about
At that time, I was not active in photography as college was super fun and enjoying my life with my friends at that time.
At that time, digital cameras came into the market but were super expensive, RM18k-20k plus? Where am I suppose to get that money? Rob the bank or beg on the street?
Anyway I invested in a Nikon Coolpix prosumer series which like cost RM3k, a whopping 2Megapixel!
So my ventures of photography continued. I was invited to take a wedding at that time, with my prosumer camera... i did the worst job ever and wish i did not do it... thank God they had another photography with this Canon DSLR (imagine me standing beside this guy :) )
That was my turning point into digital photography... saved enough cash and took a plunge into a D70...
The journey continues...
