The Birthday of Me and My Photography Blog

Yesterday was my birthday. It also marked as the official launch date of my photography blog! I’ve created Cecil Lee Photography as a sub-blog of Travel Feeder to feature my general photography tips, guides, experience and knowledge. The idea to have this additional blog was when I wished to talk more on general photography tips that beyond the scope of travel photography and Travel Feeder is not the appropriate platform for me to voice out, such as What camera can outdo our eyes and Why buying Nikon D3100, and etc.

I love photography. I learnt how to take photo when I was in university in London and my friend taught me how to shoot photos with his Nikon F70 film camera. I bought a Nikon F70 as my first film SLR then and started to take photos during my post graduate time in Europe. It was like 15 years ago. But I virtually stop shooting films when digital cameras stormed the consumer market and my Nikon F70 was stolen. I was then shooting digital photos with my tiny Nikon E4100 compact camera on my travel to Gold Coast and Bali. I was so reluctant to switch from film to digital DSLR as I thought digital cameras were still inferior to film cameras. Only until year 2008 when technology advancement had eventually came to a stage where digital cameras could shoot photos as clean as film and with high resolution, I reckoned digital cameras are good for travel photography and had bought my 1st DSLR after 10 years, the Nikon D60.

Digital Photography is different from film in terms of colour reproduction. Digital cameras use RGB sensor to sense colour temperature of receiving lights and fix a White Balance to calculate the rest of the colours in the image, unlike film camera where it relies on chemical reactions of the film itself towards receiving lights. So in digital photography, camera itself is the one who controls the resultant colour of an image, while film itself is the one who controls the same in film photography. This has made camera bodies (the image processor) and image sensor so important in digital photography (that’s why I’ve sold my D60 and am waiting to buy D7000! 🙂 ).

Because of this, White Balance is so critical in digital photography in order to create a perfect coloured image of the scene. Incorrect WB will result in funny colour rendering of an image, either becoming too blueish or too yellowish, too cool or too warm. This is a complicated issue in digital photography and I will elaborate more in my Photography Blog, instead of the Travel Blog here.

So, my Birthday wish this year is to share more of my photography tips in my new Cecil Lee Photography blog and wish it could be another success in my blogging journey. Come and support me now! Though it has only a couple of articles now but I’m sure it will grow as fast as my travel blog. 🙂 – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog.

About The Author

Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.