The Kodak Easy Camera Option
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So, now I had a camera that challenged me to complete my assignment competently. The right equipment was in my hands. The Kodak was so plug and play within one minute out of the box it was on, working, fully ready to take video with sound. My skills and enthusiasm for this money making “hobby” of photography just got better every minute.
If I sound like an ad for Kodak, bear with me. I believe I conducted the best camera search and found the best deal on a camera which not only urges me to over perform and over deliver on most of my assignments, but makes its fun. When was the last time you could say anything like that about anything you owned?
The quality of every shot I ever took with this camera was unbelievable. Uploading sets of shots into the Kodak online gallery allowed me to save favorites, save hard disk space after deleting resident shots, and communicate quality to selected clients and potential clients by emailing Kodak gallery sets.
Getting the right camera changes your (pun intended) focus. With only subject matter and stock photo opportunities to grab, the “take” for any one photo hunt was immense. Photographers who submit for stock know that multiple angles and varying compositions can give potential client customers a variety of options.
The new camera took some some getting used to. A lot of the functions I didn’t fully understand or couldn’t quite see a reason to use. But the quality of the shots was stunning. I realized how often I had furnished content or text to a site project, now the image capability was in my hands!
This began my new turn as a professional photographer. I began to scan werather reports for sunny mornings with no fog, rain, or clouds. I started to see in my viewfinder what things I could rub out or digitally manipulate to render the final clean shot. A tiny career as a subject photographer was budding into a stock photographer sideline.
 It got so I was wasting daylight using the computer. I started getting efficient enough that my photography output was outpacing my text output. I even got a bonus on the first big assignment. This spurred me onto my present career trope as a part time stock photo “specialist”. And how did it all happen? When my Kodak camera became my business partner.
