Beth+Given's+photos-+Objects

=__Teatime __=

All photos were taken at my kitchen table under compact florescent lighting with my newly purchased Olympus FE-330, which is an 8.0 megapixel, 5x optical zoom camera. My old Canon (a Digital ELPH series) camera decided to die when I was in Maine this summer, and I ended up purchasing this camera as a replacement. I've never owned an Olympus before but I've heard the lenses are particularly excellent and I wanted to try one. So far I like it. Here are some photos I took today with it: media type="flickr" key="10043716@N04" ARG0="&tags=s603&lang=en-us&format=rss_200" width="500" height="500"

I love photography but I haven't done anything more artistic than point-and-shoot since I was in high school, and this project was fun because it reminded me of those days. Of course, that was with an entirely manual camera, and I wouldn't be able to see results until I'd developed the film and created prints from them myself. (My, how digital cameras change things.)

For this project, I was purely experimenting with my new camera. I tried shots with and without flash, shots adjusted for florescent lighting as opposed to auto lighting, and I also experimented with ISO settings and the "macro" and "supermacro" function.

I guess one thing I find interesting about these photos and about digital photography in general is that they feel impersonal to me. I'm not as interested in digital photography, I enjoy the process of taking photos and developing my own photos and prints so much more. Usually I'm all about the "instant gratification" of our digital world, but in photos - although I do appreciate it for point-and-shoot situations - it seems less real to me. Admittedly, this is ridiculous, but I still feel this way. I love my good old SLR. :)