Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Photography 101

small-annelize-and-amelia_bakfor Boomeryearbook.com by Barbara Stitzer

Hi, I’m Barbara Stitzer, and in the following weeks, I’m going to tell you everything that you never knew you wanted to know about photography. I’ve been a photographer for the past 15 years. I was a model for ten, and a soap opera for three, and when my mom came down with lung cancer, I went to stay with her while I decided what I wanted to do with my life. Well, things got really sad, and I bought a Canon AE1 manual film camera to keep my mind off it. There’s a riverbed behind my parents home in Los Angeles, and when it rains, which isn’t very often, some bright guy gets the idea to take a boat down the riverbed and they usually drown, so about three days after I bought my camera, someone was doing just that, and the news crews were there filming a helicopter that was trying to rescue these guys, so I took my camera and ran down there...


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PHOTOGRAPHY 101





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1 comment:

herroyalbleakness said...

Great job Barbara! quite a risk-taker to, but it sure paid off! I'm planning to buy an SLR camera, too. It may be quite expensive but the pictures it will give me will be priceless..