Photographer

Photography By Alexandra Popp I chose Photography as my occupation because it's something I really enjoy doing. I always have a camera with me, whether it be my Canon Rebel T3, or just my iPhone's camera. Either way, I do tend to try and get the best photos I can. I own a iPhone 4S, and I find the camera on the back of the phone is pretty good.

Photography is something that I find pretty amazing, how you can capture any moment you want, and make it look anyway you want. Depending on the camera and lens you're using, you can get many different types of quality images, whether you make it look darker or brighter, or just edit it to make it look a little clearer or completely different. Also, it depends on your point of focus. Sometimes you might pick just one thing, and other times you might pick everything in the shot to be focused on. Some examples are below!

The point of focus in this shot is the baby. So when the person who took this photo was preparing to take the photo, they knew they wanted just the baby, not everything else in the background. So in order to do this, they would choose a point of focus. Some cameras will automatically focus on one thing, rather than everything. But some can also look like the ones below. Here is an example of focusing on one thing in the shot.  And this is an example of focusing on everything in the one shot.

The technology you would be using with this career is a DSLR camera. What is that? Well, it stands for a 'Digital Single-Lens Reflex' camera. It's a camera that uses a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera. Another type of technology you may be using would be a computer for an editing program. Most photographers use an editing program called Photoshop. There's always newer, updated versions being released, and chances are they would buy the newest one. The most recent Photoshop would be CS6, which is priced at $900.00 for the full program. If you bought it previously, but there has been new updates and any possible bugs that were fixed, you can update it for only $257.14. Personally, I would love to have Photoshop CS6, but that's a little out of my price rage. So, I'll stick to my PhotoScape for the times I do edit my pictures.

Here in Newfoundland, if you're interested in studying Photography, you can do it at the Marine Institute (MI). That would be called Graphic Design/Photography. You can also take the course at College of the North Atlantic (CNA).

media type="youtube" key="Zyw8AExTefM" width="560" height="315" ** Canon 600D (T3i) 18-55mm // unedited sample shots ** If you're interested in taking a photography course, Henry's offers some great courses in their School of Imaging. There are lots of courses, I took the 101 Camera Course for Canon Rebel which basically let me learn more about my camera and all it's different settings. The course cost $75, so I found that price pretty reasonable for the amount of information I learned. This Summer I plan to take part in the Travel Photography Course because I'm going on a school trip next year and would like to be able to get a lot of good pictures.