I love photography, and “Taking Pictures” is my middle name (I lied…); it has given me joy and grief, but it is now ingrained as an unshakeable habit.
When you can see the light streaming through the trees, there is some atmospheric mist, and the foreground interest is not a discarded packet of crisps – these are the moments photographers, like myself, live for. It seems such a shame that they rarely seem to happen!
I started with a Canon Powershot A85, and with it, I used to take loads of snaps of beautiful things. The combination of my lack of skill, and the massive 4 megapixels I had to play with meant the subject in most of these pictures very rarely turned out to be as beautiful as it started out. This didn’t deter me because I just enjoyed the taking of a photograph, that feeling of capturing something you like.
Since then, I have managed to get to the stage where I can (nearly) always capture the beauty of what I see, and this is what motivates me now to keep on taking pictures.
An aid to producing images that really capture the essence of the subject, or alternatively, may be used to add an artistic element to a picture, has been the advent of digital processing.
Whereas once photography was based almost entirely on the photographer’s skill with his or her camera, in modern digital photography, the camera is only half of the equation – the finished image has, in many cases, been “polished” quite heavily whilst going through digital processing.
Mark Myerson loves photography, and in particular, hanging around waterfalls! Landscapes and nature have always been his staple, but he relishes any opportunity to take pictures. He also works closely with many local charities, regularly providing photographic coverage of fundraising events.
Mark is also a self-confessed tech-head and OSX lover – Apple is his favourite fruit!
Mark is the owner of Mark Myerson Photography, a Devon-based business that provides a large variety of photographic services to the local community and beyond. Whilst Mark Myerson Photography specialises in event, commercial and pet photography, almost every type of photographic assignment has been covered by the company.
If you have any photography or OSX-related questions, you can contact Mark via the links given below.