Not about camera but the taker

As I have many ideas and plans, which contain money savings, my eyes catched a sentence "while taking a picture, it's 90% up to the taker, will the photo be succeed". No, I don't mean your phone's camera is as good as SLR camera's. But megapixels are not the key which create gorgeous pictures. And while making some transform on some pictures today, information of certain pic hit my brain. I immediately heard my teacher's voice in my mind.

"Check the information of the photo so you get more base when working on Photoshop."

  My plans. Yeah, I got one to purchase a SLR camera. Last college year gave me experience with schools' equipment ans my sis' Canon 1100. But I'm not a person who usually immediately buys when wanting - I even can wait many months, gathering information, more experiences, and more and more more more information. Afterwards, when I think, I liked more transforming pictures than nowadays it is other way round. My artistic tendency may have been more to perceive of positioning, atmosphere and details. Now I have my fascination on photographing. May be blaming my friend, happily.

  So today I read maybe unending amount of articles and wiki all about even deep meaning of cameras - which probably is too deep at this moment for me. And yes, I had to drool over some qualities which only wealthy toffs have money for.  As I'm newly an amateur.

  Let me just say - even if I may sound a little bit negative now: I don't believe in PERFECT RAW PHOTOS. Well, as long as I see one.

I wanted to take this photo as an example which my friend took. And yes, that's me and my face. Nice pic I wanted to work on as I saw a good opportunity to create the upper version. Kind like from a dramatic document, eh?

  Photoshop - our savior or the devil. It usually has a negative concept, but more likely it should be seen as a opportunity to give a birth for pleasantly looking pictures. But sometimes we go a too long way. I mean, unrealistic pictures of natural body. I've Photoshopped faces at school and home. As a experience. I'm not sure could I ever transform dramatically someone's body if I knew that many thousands of young people could see and start to adore the wrong image. Conscience would be maybe in unbalance. 

  I pursue transform with lights and shadows, contrast and colors. Not smoothing and so on to make me flawless and perfects looking skinny young woman without wrinkles, double chins, bulging veins and my too big nose.

ISO 400    50 mm    f/5,6   1/60 s

  So I's like to go back to my plans: work on with my skills, knowledge and dreams. Why I want a camera, is to capture beautiful details of my life which I will meet. And see my growth from pictures, raise those feelings end memories which I got while I was working on pictures. When fighting with exposure, f-numbers and getting a right position. Maybe redouble my wrinkles while squinting through viewfinder.

Week of University exams and Helsinki's environment