For my 6th birthday my parents bought me a film camera. I loved it. I spent the next few weeks taking pictures of everything! Then Daddy suggested I load the camera with film.
Since then I managed to abuse every camera my parents had. After I killed the battery and filled up the memory card of Daddy's old Nikon in one day, he decided I should get my own camera. So I saved up and bought a Canon Powershot A3100.
I took over a thousand pictures within the first month. When I uploaded some of my favorites online the response I received astounded me. My pictures were actually that good? Wow. I continued taking pictures.
Soon I had pushed my point&shoot to its limits. But dSLRs came with a huge price tag - at least it seemed that way to a 14 year old. So I started saving. Odd jobs around the house, asking for money for Christmas and my birthday... As the amount in my savings account rose, I started spending hours on Amazon looking at the different Canon models. Man, I could buy a nice car for the same price as some of them!
I finally decided on the T3i. At that time it was the best of the Canon EOS Rebel series ... which meant it was somewhat affordable for me. Finally, I had a "nice" camera.
For the next few years I took 10s of thousands of images. I got Adobe Photoshop and taught myself how to edit via YouTube and how-to articles. I took senior photos, family portraits, and even a wedding.
Then college hit. Soon, I realized I had abandoned my dSLR in favor of my phone camera. Instagram became my focus.
But one summer, I blew the dust off my T3i and did a photo-shoot with a group of friends. Back in my room, as I edited the images, I fell back in love with "professional" photography.
And, as they say, the rest is history.
For the next few years I took 10s of thousands of images. I got Adobe Photoshop and taught myself how to edit via YouTube and how-to articles. I took senior photos, family portraits, and even a wedding.
Then college hit. Soon, I realized I had abandoned my dSLR in favor of my phone camera. Instagram became my focus.
But one summer, I blew the dust off my T3i and did a photo-shoot with a group of friends. Back in my room, as I edited the images, I fell back in love with "professional" photography.
And, as they say, the rest is history.
