A little bit of self-spoiling and a plan.

I love portrait photography and its something that I've wanted to get into for a while now but I've been so afraid to take the first step. Besides, simply googling photography in any area seems to spew out tons and tons of talented already-established photographers. So instead of psyching myself out, I'm going to start at a logical beginning. A 365. Not really a personal 365 where I take a picture of myself everyday, but definitely at least one picture a day. One unique picture a day. Cause Lord knows I will never learn anything if I don't even have the courage to move past my backyard. I'm hoping to start out with random things, a flower here, scenery there and then slowly work my way to people. Family and friends first and then to strangers. I think it's a reasonable goal for a one year time line. The start date 21st of March, until then I've been inhaling every little bit of photography know-how I can find.

That said, I did some more research on portrait photography and appropriate lenses for just that. I had an earlier post with a 50mm, a 35mm and two micro lenses. I quickly realized I was way off track (though the micro lenses are still on my list for future purchases) and finally settled on ordering the Nikkor 50mm 1.4 D (my D80 has built in AF so I don't need to spend the extra $$ on the G) and the Nikkor 85mm 1.8 D. Both got excellent reviews and were widely regarded as solid portrait lenses. They should be sitting on my desk by this time tomorrow and I couldn't be more excited. 

I've also been working on websites on the side in order to get back up to par (not to mention it's like work that doesn't feel like work). I'm hoping to kind of incorporate this into my business too, but that's still up in the air right now. I'm hoping to build my own website over the next couple weeks. 

Just trying to stay busy.