looking back

This morning I decided to look back at the very first serious photo I took after going digital and taking photography back up after years without a proper camera.

It’s a photo of Swansea Bay and Mumbles Head taken from the promenade on Swansea waterfront at sunset in September 2010.

2010

I then compared it to the latest landscape photograph I took at Mumbles to see if and how far my skills with a digital camera and editing had come.  (By the way, we’ve chosen this image to have printed for our bedroom wall.)

2017

Back in 2010 I was all about using filters and long exposures as it was so easy to do with a digital camera as opposed to film. I rattled off image after image just because I could in the hope of getting one right.  Now, however, I shoot much more like I used to with a film camera, relying on good light and technique over fads and gadgets, and being much more careful to compose a scene properly rather than crop an image on my computer later.

I hope you agree that the difference between the two in terms of composition and technique is like night and day.  If it isn’t then I guess I’ve wasted 7 years of my life trying to take better photographs!