Persuasive Essay: Why I Love Photography

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One of the reasons I love photography so much is that I love being right. To me, the best feeling in the world is winning an argument or debate by tearing the opposing argument to shreds with facts. In photography, there is no debate, I was there and I took these photos the way I saw it; that’s it. End of discussion. 8 years ago (When I got my first camera) I was a very different person; introverted, quiet, and unsure of my place in the world. If you told me 8 years ago that I would be engrossed in the world of photography and now concern myself with terms such as composition, dynamic range, and rolling shutter, I would’ve laughed at you. All those years ago on Christmas morning I received my first camera from ‘Santa’, and I was less than enthused. I knew my mom and dad already had a camera, so what did I need …show more content…

(Portrait, landscape etc…) The first real test of my photographic prowess came at my dad’s birthday that year (October). Now that I had this camera every one of my relatives had suggestions for what I should take photos of (much to my dismay) and then was patronized for taking ‘professional’ or ‘amazing’ photos. (I became aware of this after I took a photo of my dad and cut off his head from the frame and was told that I should frame it) after this I vowed to only take photos for one person: myself, and I would only take photos of stuff I was interested in. In the years that followed I honed my craft by taking LOTS of photos, and I also got a new camera; well the one on my iPod. While it only had an 8 megapixel sensor, it had apple’s color science (colors that more truly represent the scene) and I could play games on it. This is the camera I took with me the first 3 times I went to Europe and each time I took over 1500 photos! So for 3 years that iPod camera was more than enough to keep me content and interested in photography, although things changed when in the summer of 2015 when, after returning from London, I

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