Digital cameras: how do you use camera in your daily life

lastar811 · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:37 am Post subject:

I take my camera everywhere with me though I don't always find things to take pictures of. When I am working I just leave the camera in the car (under a blanket so no one sees it and gets ideas). I also will carry my camera to the grocery store and other such places, it never hurts. Part of my inspiration comes from wanting to have enough photos so that towards the end of the year I can make a scrapbook for the coffee table or ideally a scrapbook of my boyfriend/the two of us for his/my parents.

I have started the photo a day thing as my new year's revolution. Unfortunately I already missed a day (Jan 3rd), but I made it up by posting extra pictures on Jan 2nd and Jan 4th. The pictures I have posted so far aren't anything to write home about, but its at least a start. Plus it will help me track progress over the year.

Other pictures that I don't post as my photo of the day I either post on my blogspot or in my MySpace albums, usually both since I have different readers on each. (I tried posting links to my blogspot and myspace, but I can't do that yet because I am to new, will do it later though.)

The last couple days I haven't had anything to take a picture of which is disappointing, but I am sure I will find something. I agree with the photo a day article; take a picture of anything just take a picture. It might not be anything particularly interesting or note-worthy, but in the long run you will develop an idea of what can be pictured and what can't. (For example, I decided I would try to take a picture of a record, for the texture contest, but I couldn't get the look/feel I wanted after numerous tries so I took a picture of something else. I will still work on taking the record picture and now it helps to know what doesn't work.)