My Photography Ethnography

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I began doing photography four years ago. I was looking around the internet and I saw a photography page and was at all their different posts and I said I wanna do this. I started with a point and shoot camera because it was more of a hobby than a passion at that point in my life. At first naturally I was not very good ill admit it but I was determined to get better because no one likes to be bad at what they enjoy. Although most of my photos were either off center, focused too close, too far away, I also cropped peoples heads out, and some just flat out bad. So I went out everyday after school and took pictures and then like my pictures my skills were starting to develop.

As my skills started to develop I found myself starting to develop, my whole perspective on life was changed, the way I looked at certain things, found the beauty in things others can’t, photography was a real eye opener for me. Once I realized I had promise I bought my first dslr camera, then I got to work, I asked for help advice from local photographers took what I could from them and put that into my style of photography. Now I was ready to go take pictures I asked friends to help me get certain shots as much as they didn’t want to. …show more content…

They find euphoria in different things like I do photography. I like photography because it’s an outlet for me when i’m depressed, angry, or happy this is why it appeals to me so much because I could be having the worst day ever and all I have to do is here that click of the shutter and i’m back. I like photography because it is different than writing a story, poem, or music the thing I find with writing is it’s easy to just use someone else's writing to cover yourself but the unique thing about photography is no one photo is the same it is impossible to

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