So, the photography bug has bitten SOME kinda bad, like, it's gnawed my entire leg off and looking greedily at the other. After pestering everyone I knew who knew anything about photography, I decided to just do it, go for gold, get another electronic gadget I absolutely DO not need, spend the money I should be putting towards a pension plan (thingy) or a house or something else very grown up, but NO, I need another picture taking device because two is not enough (inner demons, I'm fighting them so bad). Anyways, I decided to buy my first slr camera. I ordered a simple body, the Canon 600d, and an 18-135mm lens because of it's versatility bla bla bla. I was SO excited, and then... THEN I found out yesterday, oh SORRY we can't deliver it to you because you're not a normal human being and you don't really live anywhere and can't show any proof of having lived anywhere in the last two years.
Mmmkay. Screw you.
So, I got on the train to Monaco from Sanremo, walked into the shop, and GOT my camera. Except, well, the night before I was so excited about camera stuff that I was up all night reading about lenses and how they work and which one you NEEDED and I convinced myself that not only did I need the 18-135mm lens, but I also needed a 50mm lens, and a tripod, and a bigger card, and all this STUFF and before I knew it things just got WAY out of control (as they do) and my card was pushed inside the machine and I was entering my PIN and the "transaction approved" slip was handed to me and it was all too late. So, I got the camera. I'm looking at it now and feeling like oh helllll sister you're cool, and then I pick it up with it's weighty expensive looking lens and I'm like HOT DAMN! And then I try take a picture and I'm like:
oh
Seriously. I absolutely SUCK
ohmygodimusttakeitbackatONCE
This is all very, VERY upsetting. I had these grand ideas of picking it up and just being absolutely AMAZING and talented and an absolute natural. THIS, however, was NOT the case. In all fairness, I only got back to the boat in the dark and was so excited I was shooting pictures of toilet rolls and microwaves in florescent lighting, not exactly a recipe for brilliance, is it? IS it?!!
Luckily for ME, I have this friend who's a photographer, whose job it is to TEACH ignoramuses like yours truly to use their cameras. So, needless to say, he's been recruited, in a BIG way to teach me stuff and he's playing along like such a gem. He's given me all these assignments to do and stuff to practice and whilst he MAY need to adjust his bossy tone with me I'm pretty excited to be his "pet project" and all too smitten that he's seen some of my photos on instagram and Facebook and thinks I'm "pretty sharp" and absolutely BRIMMING with creative talent and natural flair and awesomeness, I made the last bit up, so what if I did? He has faith in me. I do to.
(maybe. maybe not. pretty much definitely not).
Let's hope day TWO is a little better and I'll look back on Day 1 and think "oh hahahahaha, remember how on the first day I was SO useless and look at me NOW, good lord I'm exceptional.
