I have recently (over the last year) started to get into photography again. Back in my younger years, I was very into photography. My uncle is a professional photographer (a very good one, might I add) as well as an author. Anyway when I was in 8th or 9th grade I spent career day with him. It was an awesome day and I got to learn a lot about what professional photographers did.
This was before digital cameras and everything was still shot on film. That day I learned about portraits, lighting, exposures, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and lots of other fun stuff. He showed me everything from taking the picture to developing and printing. After that day, I became an amateur photographer and went on shoots with him. I got to go to college football games and shoot from the field, I got to meet celebrities when he was shooting them for the Lansing State Journal, and go on other outings as well.
I ended up building my own dark room and taking almost all of the candid and sports photos in my high school yearbook. All through high school it was what I did.
After high school, things changed. I no longer had the darkroom in college and some of the very expensive equipment that my uncle had let me borrow had to be returned.
The photo industry has gone through a lot of change over the past 20 years. No one has a dark room any more, everything is digital. About 10 years ago I bought a canon (that was the brand I was most familiar with, and I have never been disappointed) Rebel. Just the cheap one and started taking pictures again. This was after my divorce and I did not have much to take pictures of, lol. So it did not last long.
Now I am married and have kids and last year I bought a newer, and fancier Canon T6s and have fallen in love with it again. My wife likes to complain a little about the gear and what not, but she loves the pictures.
Anyway this is just the lead up to a recent project that I am going to post about. We are very soon going to be heading to Hawaii with the kids for our family vacation and I wanted a way to ensure I did not lose and pictures and was able to keep a back up, but did not want to bring my laptop. I solved the issue by using a Raspberry PI, a USB hub and some neat scripts that I put together.
You can read about it in my next post…..