{"id":67,"date":"2012-06-30T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/claudiasentahbaz.com\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2012-06-30T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T16:27:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hola, I am Claudia from Mexico City. Sabrina is the name of my Camera \ud83d\ude42
\n\"Claus\"<\/a>
\nI am self-taught in photography. This site was created (thanks to my husband Ali)\u00a0to share my photos.
\nEmail:<\/strong> claudiatahbaz@gmail.com
\nMy Gear:<\/strong>
\nCanon 60D
\nCanon 18-55mm f\/3.5-5.6 IS II
\nCanon 50mm f\/1.4 USM
\nCanon 100mm f\/2.8L Macro IS USM
\nManfrotto 190CX3 3-Section Carbon Fiber Tripod with 322RC2 Grip Action Joystick Head
\nManfrotto 7322YB-BB Tripod with Ball Head
\nRemote Switch RS-60E3
\nRemote Control RC-6
\nLightroom3
\nCanon Speedlite 580EX II (February 2013)
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How I started<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got my first DSLR a Canon 60D with an 18-55mm lens at the end of 2010. I started reading the manual that came with it immediately and oh my, that was bad.\u00a0 I found lots of photography terms that I didn\u2019t understand, needless to say I kept reading and then I got scared.\u00a0 I had this nice camera with lots of buttons that could take photos like the ones you see in magazines and the only thing I could do was to set the camera in Automatic and shoot.\u00a0 The photos obviously came with a better quality than with my Point and Shoot but now I was stuck carrying around a big camera that I couldn\u2019t fit in my handbag and what was worse is that I knew I was wasting the money invested in the camera. I felt so bad and overwhelmed by all of the photography terminology I was trying to learn and understand.
\nAt that moment, I decided to skip all the other settings and go straight to Manual. In retrospect, I think it was a good decision because it really forced me to learn but it was a very tough road. Most of my photos were pitch black and if I was lucky enough to get whatever I was photographing in the picture it wasn\u2019t even in focus.\u00a0 During my learning process I kept browsing on line and seeing photos with a nice and sparkly blurred background but I couldn\u2019t figure out how to do it.
\nAfter 6 months and lots of bad images I was finally able to take photos in Manual mode with the focus where I wanted. \u00a0I would say it took me 1 year of reading the manual, books, on line tutorials and playing with my camera to get comfortable and more or less get the results I wanted.
\nIt has been 1 \u00bd years now, I do have a very long way to go and still so much to learn but at least now I can see the results of what I have learned and it feels good.\u00a0 I still get dark or overexposed photos but I have an idea of what to do to fix it. Now, I feel a bit more confident about changing my settings and following my intuition. I have just started to discover and to enjoy the possibilities of being creative now that I don\u2019t have to focus as much in the technical aspects. I love not being afraid anymore of breaking the photography \u201crules\u201d that I have read about during this past year.
\nI look forward to all of the things I have yet to learn about photography and to share them here.
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Hola, I am Claudia from Mexico City. Sabrina is the name of my Camera \ud83d\ude42 I am self-taught in photography. This site was created (thanks to my husband Ali)\u00a0to share my photos. Email: claudiatahbaz@gmail.com My Gear: Canon 60D Canon 18-55mm f\/3.5-5.6 IS II Canon 50mm f\/1.4 USM Canon 100mm f\/2.8L Macro IS USM Manfrotto 190CX3 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.claudiasentahbaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}