Will the real photographer please stand up...

Recently I've become obsessed with photography. I bought a fancy DSLR, upgraded the lens, read some photography blogs, watched a few videos. Two months later, I've deemed myself a professional, toting my little camera bag around with me to every function and snapping "professional" quality shots of everything from the guests to the lemonade dispenser to the family dog.

I went to my cousin's birthday party at her home in Echo Park and seeing no other "professionals" in sight, I took charge of the situation. Whipped out my state of the art Nikon D3000 and started snapping away. I took a picture of a lovely couple who I'd just met. The guy, Marc, came over to look at the picture of the two of them. He said, that's good.

Good... Who is this guy? Good. No, not really, I thought. So I decided to drop a lil knowledge on him. Actually I need to decrease the shutter speed and let some of that background lighting in. And the depth of field is off. Its not as focused as I'd like. I think I even may have started to explain what those things meant...

He said, you know I'm a photographer right?

Oh? Like for a living?

Yes, I shoot for magazines.

Oh... I see...

Suddenly my Nikon D3000 began to look more like a Fuji Film disposable. He didn't make me feel like I was holding a Fuji Film disposable though. In fact he was really nice and answered a ton of questions.

I wasn't until a week or so later (today), I asked my cousin who he was so I could check out his work. Marc Royce. I googled this Marc Royce. Then clicked on his link:

http://marcroyce.com/Portraits/


Isn't my face red. Looks like I have A LOT more blogs to read and youtube videos to watch. :)



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