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Photograph of the day

Photograph of the day

Image copyright James Wells 2006

About my photography

I started doing digital photography in March 2004, and as you can hopefully tell, it's something I really love to do when I have the time for it.

The first photo that I took that really excited me was this one (deviantart.com). I love that photograph because it was done with a very very basic digital camera, and it proved to me wonderfully that the equipment you use is only really a very small part of getting a great shot.

The camera in question is a Digital Dream Quantum 3.2, and I still use that camera today as my "carry everywhere" camera, because it's very easy to use and still makes great images. The best proof of that comes from looking at my photographs; I'll be very impressed if you can tell just by looking which of my photos were done with that camera, and which with my more professional model.

My more professional model is a Fuji Finepix S7000 and it has some pretty amazing features of its own. In particular the close up mode(s) are very impressive, and it can easily photograph something just 1cm from the lenses. I use this for a lot of my more "intentional" work, where I go out (or stay in!) specifically to find photographs.

My next camera in a year or two's time will be a digital SLR model, which I have carefully planned to move up to after a while, because I feel that with more basic cameras, I learn photography first and the equipment does things for me second. I have no doubt that SLR's are better cameras, and I'd love to have one, but for the moment I'm content to work on improving my own skills first of all.

I am exploring all areas of Photography, and so my photographs cover areas such as Landscapes, People, Buildings, and Objects, to name just a few. One are i'd like to get more experience in is with photographing people, though i've had some experience through doing wedding photographs for friends of mine.

With regard to this website, my long term plan is to get all of my photography hosted on here, but for the moment, my gallery is mostly over at deviantart.com.

Since my photos aren't over at this site yet, please click HERE to view my deviantart gallery page.

Most of my photography is available to buy in sizes up to 30" x 20" , please feel free to contact me on website@jameswells.co.uk if you would like to discuss ordering printed versions of any.