The Plan
Saturday, December 22, 2007 by Paige Balcer 
The main reason I upgraded from a point-and-shoot to a digital SLR last March was that I was feeling limited and frustrated. I realized that I had hit a wall and wanted more. As I mentioned in my last post, photography for me is about capturing that moment or detail that I am seeing and making it “real”. My little Canon Powershot was doing all it could, but it wasn’t enough for me. By the time it actually took the picture, the moment was long gone and I was annoyed.
Having my Canon Rebel XT has freed things up for me a lot. It’s quicker and I can control things much better. But I am still learning…big time. There are endless amounts of topics I need to cover and plenty of information out there to help me. But it can be a bit overwhelming at times. There is just so much info out there and sometimes I find it difficult to sort through it all and find what’s best for my style. So I think my “plan for the new year” (not calling it a resolution) is to focus on learning one new thing a month. It doesn’t sound like much, but I’m talking about learning something and then putting it into practice for a month. For instance, I have asked for a reflector for Christmas. So my first month could be spent playing with it (if I am lucky enough to receive it) and really learning how to use it. The next month could be learning more about different lenses and figuring out which one might be on my list next Christmas.
Anyway, I’m hoping that since I wrote about my “plan for the new year” here, I will have to follow through with it. Right?
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