Geert1845

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I finally updated my entire gallery with copyright notices. I'm going to start submitting new stuff again (finally ).

I still have a bunch of stuff from my trip to Berlin to upload. That's a good thing, because since then I haven't had the time to go shooting at all. I'm busy with lots of work unfortunately, and because of all the work and stress I haven't really been in a creative mood. Oh well, I should probably just go outside sometime and take my camera, and inspiration will come up. Eventually it always does.

I've recently had quite some problems with people stealing my artwork from here and passing it on as their own (not people from DA). I usually don't like big copyright notices on photo's, since I think they detract from the images, but I'm tired of my stuff getting stolen.

So over the next week or two I'm going to be editing all the photo's currently in my galery to add a copyright notice. I'll add it in a place that's not too disruptive, on the frame as opposed to the image itself, since I absolutely refuse to put big notices over my images itself. That might be only a small deterrent to determined thiefs, but it's better than nothing.

I don't know whether editing your work makes it shop up in your message centers, but of you suddenly get a lot of stuff from me that looks familiar in your deviantwatch list, you know where it comes from. I'll let you know once I'm done, and start uploading new stuff.  

"There's no solace on Earth for such as we
who search for a hidden city we shall never see
Only the road and the wind and the rain
and watchfires under stars, the sleep
and the road again."
- Unknown author, Hitch-hikers guide to Europe



Yeah, I was bored of my old journal entry, and didn't have anything interesting to write.

I should update this more often...

So, a couple of things:

I finally breached the 1 000 pageviews (some time ago). Thank you very much to all who leave comments, favs or just watch me. I really appreciate it.

The number of pageviews isn't something I usually pay a lot of attention too, or actively try to increase, but it's still a nice appreciation of my photography (and a nice ego-stroke, hehehe). Like most 'serious' photographers on here I prefer one in-depth criticism than 10 comments saying nothing more than 'nice shot'. Not that I don't appreciate the latter, but I feel I'm here to share and to learn.

I recently got myself a Canon Eos 300D, (as I already mentioned in the comments in some shots). Even though I got it in a relatively cheap place, it still cost a fortune for my poor student wallet. I don't regret buying it for a second though, the advantages of digital compared to my old analog camera are obvious to me. Most important off course is being able to shoot as much as I want too, without having to pay development costs. I shoot a lot more now, and some of the shots I find best I probably would never have taken if I were still using my old cam.

Another advantage is the instant feedback you get. The digital sensor is more sensitive to wrong exposures than negative film, but that doesn't really matter because you can reshoot immediately with the correct exposure compensation. To me that essentially means I'm learning about exposing correctly very fast now.

The third big advantage is the ability to switch from 100 to 800 iso and anywhere in-between on the fly. I remember several times before while travelling where I really wished I  had brought some faster (or slower) film. The ability to use my EF lenses is off course useful too.

Some less good news. Crunch time in college is approaching rapidly, which means that in the next two months or so I'll be quite busy studying. I'll still be active here, and try to go out shooting as often as I can, but  it'll probably be less than I want to.

Cheers,
Geert