Tuesday, September 9, 2008

2nd Day of School

Hi all together.
I'm Thomas and my Nickname is Tame.
Last year I moved from Germany to Canada and I love Canada a lot. I just miss my friends and the food.
Photo by Duncan McNairnay
I studied Business before I came to Canada and I don't want do it again because the rules and other things is not the same. So I had to learn it again and forget what I learned.
I decided to learn something new and it's Photography. My friend had an SLR Camera and I liked it to take Pictures with it. Why I choose PrairieView is another question.
Some days I was at DonsPhoto and saw the brochure of PrairieView and I liked the Pictures. I gone to my friend and told him "Hey, did you see this nice brochure with nice Pictures in it?" "I didn't but I know where the school in Winnipeg is" answered he. "This is a brochure about a school?I didn't read it, I just looked at the pictures and thought it's a print shop or something else." After this conversation I read this book and decided to go to this school. I was scared they will not take me because of my bad English but somehow I convinced them that I can do it. So here I am.

I'm very interested in Wedding shooting and portraits because I love to work with people.
After College I want to go to Germany for one or two month and shoot some weddings.
I hope and pretty sure that in 10 month my knowledge and skills are good to take better picture and understanding how light does work.

One of my worst experience which I made was at a wedding. They paid me very well and my job was just to take Snap shoots. At the morning they had a Photographer and they got their nice poses pictures. Back to my bad and worst experience. I bought 2 weeks ago the Pentax 540 GZ because I had some problems with light and thought with a flash I will not have this problem anymore. The Wedding was on Saturday and on Friday night I checked my equipment and I recognized that my Camera broke down. Somehow it didn't read my SD Card. Can you imagine how nervous and stressed I was? On Saturday night I drove from Steinbach to Winnipeg (ca. 1 hour) and bought a new body at Future shop. Drove back home and dressed me up for wedding. I came 5 minutes earlier than the bridal couple came. At this time I couldn't check out the rooms and how bright they are. So the ceremony started and I didn't know in which condition of light I will shoot. It was horrible. Without a flash I would get only crap but the problem was I wasn't that good taking pictures with flash. I tried with bouncing flash light to shoot but it was hard. At the end of this day I got a head attack. This was my worsts experience.

6 comments:

Christopher said...

i love wedding photos as well

Cassandra Steen said...

that would be so much fun to go back to germany to shoot weddings!

Sara said...

weddings are fun!

Updates by Jessica said...

Weddings seem like a lot of work, but well worth the experience.

Heidi Tessmann said...

Cool! Germany is so beautiful! That's awesome that you'll be doing weddings there.

Carly Alexandra Stevenson said...

Hey Thomas! Carly from group A here. I enjoyed your first blog and felt very nervous for you when I read about your bad experience at the wedding! I hope you still managed to get a couple good ones! I think that you'll learn a lot this year and have many good experiences shooting weddings in the future! Cheers