For those of you who don’t know.. not so long ago I signed up to be a photographer assistant at a local photo studio - Tampa Photo. No no, I did not quit my primary job.. Still, my main duties are - automation, perl scripting, performance monitoring and such :) However, I decided to take my hobby (photography) to the next level - learn commercial aspect of it, while improving my skills by working with real pros. And the extra $$ I earn doing it will certainly help in acquiring new photo gear :)

It’s a very exciting engagement for me. I’ve already went out on a couple of assignments with Kevin and Eric, and hopefully next week I will get to work with MJ. They’ve already given me tons of pointers and few priceless advices. I feel already that my shooting skills jumped up by two levels. I’m finally not afraid of using speedlight anymore (before, I only believed in “Natural lighting” and couldn’t stand flash, b-cs as I thought it was “messing up” real colors :-), and now I’m learning not to trust my camera in making exposure decisions and taking responsibility for those myself. It’s hard… it feels like I have to re-learn how to play tennis from scratch… after playing for 7 years! But I’m slowly piecing it together, little by little…

This picture was taken with Nikon D70 and Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens

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