Cameras

I'd say when the iPhones started to come out that's when I started getting interested in photography. I really wanted an iPhone just because it had a camera on it. I thought that it was amazing that a little screen could take photos and you could just put that screen in your pocket and take it anywhere. Once I got an iPhone I started getting applications on it. There was this one app thats call Instagram. Instagram is a social media where you could post pictures. You basically pick a photo you want to up load and it gives you the choice to edit the photo. They have all sorts of things you could do to make your photo look more unique. Such as filters, cropping, sharpening, brightness. All of the basic things to either make your photo look clearer or representable.

Instagram lead to so much more. I discovered accounts that would show you tutorials on how to edit a photo and life saver apps that make your photos look flawless. Eventually, I started to want a camera. I even told people that it was on my bucket list. My parents always promised that they would get me one to shut me up about wanting one, but they never got around to it. One day I just walked into my ELA teacher's classroom, and she straight up gave me a camera. It was honestly one the happiest days of my life. She basically made my dreams come true. The camera she gave me was a Sony. Finally owning a camera is exactly what I thought it felt like. I feel more important in a way, and I finally have and interesting hobby.

Receiving the Sony has lead me to wanting a better more professional camera. I've been looking at this Canon on a shopping site called Amazon , and my mom literally said that she could make the purchase tomorrow. I don't know if she's doing the same thing to make me shut up, but I feel very excited and confident that she wasn't just bluffing. I could only just get the camera, or I could get the whole set. Which would cost way more, about $600.00 more. It took a lot of convincing, but I did it.

I basically just told my mom the whole history about my photography life, and how much passion I have for it. I don't know how to explain it, but it's sort of a burning sensation talking about it. Because this is going to be my future. Just like how some people get excited talking about how they want to join the NBA or be a model or even just a house wife just like I get excited talking about being a photographer.

One of my favorite young photographers is Isabella Madrid. She's 14 years old and she already has so much experience using a camera and editing photos. She is one of my biggest inspirations, and I want to be just like her when it comes to photography. She does self-portrait photography, and she has some breathtaking beauty. Sometime she also posts a before and after photo which is another kind of thing I want to get into with this blog.

Some of my future plans with this blog is DIY's, Before and after pictures, I'll recommend apps so if you ever come across a photo that you're inspired by, you'll know exactly the app that I used, and maybe you could take and edit a photo similar to mine. I'll do all of this when I am all caught up in school which will be soon.