#artistevolution

During the year I have been studying NQ Photography, I had so much fun! I always enjoyed photography as a hobby from a young age, I remember being in nursery with my own “camera”, a toy one that one of the teachers had given to me so I would stop asking to borrow her own little camera! My interest began then and I was unsure of what I wanted to do in my life, until I realised there are photography courses. Signing up and getting a place in NQ Photography was one of the best decisions I had ever made, I met many new and amazing friends, I learned to work with and to understand photography better in ways I never thought I would, and my self esteem and confidence has boosted so well! 

I began the course with a basic understanding of how to point a phone camera and shoot to get an image. But during this year long course, I learned how to work a real and proper camera and not my phone, I also got my own camera too and use it in my spare time or when working at home! It has been only a year, but my skills in photography have changed so much and for the better. Often, I find myself thinking of different angles and perspectives to take my images, whereas before I would just raise my camera and click. Now, I go places or walk about my own home and my mind is focused and thinking “I can photograph that, or this, or even that”, I love thinking that way and it helps to build my creativity. 

I have learned a lot during the course, but my greatest challenge was photoshop! I was always good on computers but only in basic things: like the internete or Microsoft word. So photoshop brought a great challenge for me, it took most of the course before I finally understood how to work it and was comforable enough to do my own projects with it, but I am thankful to have learned it all as it greatly helps to improve my images. During this time, I took on my first photography job: a Christening. It was my first job of any kind and I was anxious, but I didn’t let it stop me! I photographed a christening and the couple I was working for loved my work, so it was a good confidence boost I needed, but without the course, I wouldn’t have been able to even think about doing something like that!