I've been doing the photography thing for about 6 months. If I'm motivated to learn something new it takes me no time to pick it up.
I wanted to get into photography because I got tired of searching high & low for pics in books, magazines, etc to use in my designs. Plus, I wanted to make my designs more original so I wanted to take the pics of my clients for their covers so it was more creative than just your normal Olan Mills crap.
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