We were in Lake Tahoe last week and I never bothered to blog about it because I was all eight shades of Makayla Maroney and totally unimpressed. I mean, it is a beautiful lake and all but it's a lot like Sedona: completely overrun by tourists and casinos. GACK.
But you know what did impress me? Emily. She has her own little camera that we got her for her birthday and it turns out that without a lick of coaching she has a mean eye. So I took her out early one morning and we began photography class.
When I say "photography class," what I mean is, we walked around and I made minor suggestions about how to find a nice angle or what setting might work best for what she was trying to accomplish, but I have yet to teach her one single thing about composition. She just gets it. I ended up popping my little 50mm lens on my SLR to make it light enough for her to hand hold and I let her go. We are not ready for a complete discussion of aperture and shutter speed so I helped with the settings in full manual mode, but this is what she did.
But you know what did impress me? Emily. She has her own little camera that we got her for her birthday and it turns out that without a lick of coaching she has a mean eye. So I took her out early one morning and we began photography class.
When I say "photography class," what I mean is, we walked around and I made minor suggestions about how to find a nice angle or what setting might work best for what she was trying to accomplish, but I have yet to teach her one single thing about composition. She just gets it. I ended up popping my little 50mm lens on my SLR to make it light enough for her to hand hold and I let her go. We are not ready for a complete discussion of aperture and shutter speed so I helped with the settings in full manual mode, but this is what she did.
Look out, Peter Lik. Someone wants your job.