Next Steps
it's obvious from the title of this blog that my photographic bent started with a simple iPhone 4. while i still regularly shoot pictures with my now 4S, it was the gift of a Canon S5 point and shoot that really let me start to grow my skills. it had manual controls, a zoom lens that didn't turn into a grainy mess like the 4S, and gave me a tool i felt like spending time with...going out to take photos for hours. after about a week with the Canon S5 i knew i was going to want to do more than this little bugger could pull off. i began looking at all the great options out there for cameras and, after some conversations with a few pro photographers i knew, i decided on the Nikon D7000. i didn't want to cut into the regular budget my wife and i were setting up, so i came upon an ingenious funding plan. i started doing focus groups and online surveys and, wouldn't you know it, i had almost 500 dollars in just about 6 months...not bad, but only about a third of the way t