Camera fun time!

Camera fun time!

I've been wanting to do more photography. It's something I've loved since journalism in high school. Only I barely got the basics back then (in the olden days of having to learn my way around an actual dark room), because I was a stronger writer, and then the editor in chief, and so I couldn't be mucking about in the dark room all the time. Ah well. Then in college the photography class always filled up in a matter of seconds. I glommed onto my girlfriend when she took it, and learned what I could second hand from her. (I did the same thing when she took ceramics. She took that at the same time as my room mate, and I think I went to that class more often than my roomie did.) (Why wasn't I an art major?) So it finally occurred to me to look for more professional camera apps for my phone. Finally! Macro setting that is really macro! Manual focus! OMG! So I can push myself a little further with a $2 app than dropping $500 on the Nikon I want. (I really want. It must be mine.) I'm pleased with how the stuff I poked around with right now came out. I'm thinking my next splurge is going to be a proper macro lens for my phone. A lot of my friends who are into photography do landscapes and big things and need the crazy telephoto lenses. I love macro. My favorite things to take pictures of are like individual flowers and insects. The snails have been a lot of fun lately. I am kicking myself because I got some neatly composed pics yesterday, but they are juuuuuuuuust out of focus. So very frustrating. Hopefully this app will solve it (Snap Camera HDR), but never again will I see that tiny snail moving from a vertical plane to a horizontal one. sigh image-1477641951840.jpg