Playing with DSLR

I got myself a DSLR D550 for a mere "assignment purpose" 2 years ago without really planning ahead what to do with it other than shooting references and pictures for my collage assignments. But then i gradually starts to love photography and I developed a new hobby after I understand how different shooting can create different emotion to the picture taken. I guess people are right when they say, you will learn something when you have no way of turning back.   

So I took my camera around during gatherings and celebrations to try to capture beautiful images and improve my skills. It was fun when the picture taken turns out to be good and I get compliments from people who had seen it. These picture was taken from a shop in Malacca famous Jonker street called  三叔公. The shop sell a lot of famous Malacca's traditional food but i yet to try any of them, I just know they were famous in that street. Their decoration however are very nice and very old style, so customers can enjoy their food and scenery at the same time.

San Shu Gong 三叔公

33, Jalan Hang Jebat,

75000 Melaka

Contact Number: 06-2828381

Open Hours: 10.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. (Daily)

There are even cute miniature around the shop corner 

 I slowly spread my target from scenery > foods > animal > to human. I learned something every time I shoot. So now even if i post something on my Instargram, I will rearrange it surroundings and the model to get the best result out of it ^^. Photography became an art that I love and I would gladly continue to have fun with it. 

These beautiful lantern was taken during Mid-Autumn Festival and I took the chance to play with perspective. I took me quite a few number of attempts before i could actually get a handful of nice pictures. Now I had realize how I had not appreciate pictures from skillful photographer had produced. 

Carrying a DSLR all the time with me is tedious and I had regretted many time that i could not capture some moments just because I do not have a camera in hand. So I actually go to the extend of investing a Samsung S4 for the purpose of taking pictures and for the reason of convenience. Thanks to it, I can capture more and more picture wherever i go without the need to worry about being caught by the security or being obvious that I am shooting at something. 

Although a smart phone saved my problem, at the end of the story, it still can not match with the overall functions a DSLR could produce. Well, if i could be a professional photography one day, I would surely invest more on my DSLR. For the time being, I will just use what i could to learn, because a tool will always be a tool, it is the skills and foundations that matters.