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Canon EOS 40D & New Hobby

August 14th, 2008 | by admin |

As a lot of friends and family know, I LOVE taking pictures. It doesn’t matter if it’s of a bird, my kids, weather, cars, etc. So I’ve worked out something with a friend of mine and picked up a Canon EOS 40D camera and have been learning as much as I can as often as I can. It’s a hobby right now that i hope to turn into a full time business because I’m honestly getting burned out working in the IT field now for 20+ years.

I’ve been researching what it takes and how to go about doing everything for the last 2 years or so as well as slowly purchasing all the software that I need to process the photo’s before putting them out in the public’s eye and also on my new portfolio site. So far I’ve had great feedback about most of my pictures but as I’ve been told by many professionals, with every picture they take and every job they take, they learn something new so this isn’t something that I expect to be the goto guy in. Since I’m not taking any college courses on this, everything’s going to be self taught but then again that’s how I learned everything that I know in IT.

This is something that my wife and kids can help me with when I do small jobs and what’s making my wife happy is the fact that I’m going to start cleaning the Den out and turn that into a small studio for doing family portraits as well as anything else I can think of. 99% of the materials that I need can and will be bought off ebay such as the umbrella lights, backdrops, extra flashes, etc.

In about another month or so, I’m going to start making up some flyers and business cards to drop off at some of the stores around the area as well as my church. I’m sure I’m not going to become a millionare off of doing this but it’s a hobby that’s not going to do any damage to my back and it’s something the entire family can be involved in and that makes me happy.

So this year, I plan on being out in the woods during hunting season taking pictures of the wildlife instead of shooting them for food. Yea I know that’s a surprise to a lot of people that know me but I’ll be 40 in 6 months and my body just doesn’t do the things that it used to anymore but that’s due to not listening to the Dr’s when I was younger up until about 2 months ago.

So as I start building the portfolio, I’ll link to some of the pictures and see what people think.