Do you ever feel held back with your Photography?

I have to say I’m feeling a little held back at the moment with my photography and in particular my camera.

I’ve got to the stage where I know I need to be able to adjust the settings for exposure to capture a better photograph, but I have no way of doing that. Because I’ve got a very low end point and shoot camera which is really great for snap shots of friends and family, but no good if I want to go a little deeper. The camera I use at the moment is a Traveler DC-5080 and it has taken what I feel are some good photographs. But if I had a camera that was more flexible then could I have made them even better?

I’ve felt this way for a while and I have been thinking about a solution, which only comes to one answer which is to buy a new camera. I could look at how I am taking the shot and consider the natural lighting that I have to work with, which I do at the moment but at the end of the day the camera itself is still limiting me. It’s just the natural time to move on to the next stage. After all if you enter a race with a Ford Fiesta you are not going to do as well in it as if you had entered it with a Jaguar, are you…

So the hunt is on and the decisions are being made and weighed in the search for an upgrade to my camera, which has served me well and will continue as my back up.

I have even been using Photoshop Elements 3 to give my images a helping hand. Which is something I’ve never really done before. I’ve used Elements more for resizing and cropping in the past, but I have been experimenting with it to see how I can improve the images, and I’ve had some pleasing results.

This is good for learning photoshop skills, which I do think has it’s place as part of the process of creating an image. But I just need that bit of flexibility in the first place to give me more creative freedom. I don’t know why but I feel like I’m betraying a trusted friend!

Mandy