Keeping with tradition, starting anything computer-based with a “Hello World!” is the way to go. Every coding language tutorial started with you printing out “Hello World!” as Lesson 1. I will probably carry this tradition for as long as I live.

Anyways, welcome to my new website. If you haven’t read my About page, this website is mainly dedicated to my photography journey, which will mostly revolve around two themes - astrophotography and car photography (my car mainly). I have always been fascinated with astronomy as a hobby, and when I discovered that I was able to take really detailed pictures of the night sky and its stars with just a DSLR, I immediately began my research on what type of camera I should buy (and which ones I could afford). Ignoring my fuzzy memory, I decided on a Canon EOS 800D. I was lucky enough to find a seller in Wollongong (which is about an hour’s drive south from Sydney), who sold it to me at a really competitive price - and it came with a 50mm lens! The shutter count was low and the body was in pretty decent condition relative to its shutter count, so I immediately bought it. The owner was getting into mirrorless cameras, so he was happy with letting it go for a cheaper price than advertised.

When I returned home I immediately gave it a spin. I popped by my local park and took some pictures. It is to be noted that at this point I had basically zero knowledge on how ISO, focus, and shutter speed worked. Thank God cameras have an autofocus option (which I embarrassingly used during that session). But you know what? I snagged a pretty good beginner shot.

Not bad, right? The settings you see above are the ones that the camera automatically chose. I will definitely come back and redo this photo with my own settings to see if I can do a better job. Then the evening came and I snapped this one:

This one was definitely a highlight of that afternoon. Again, those settings were automatically chosen (at this point I should just say automagically because I had no idea what was happening at the time. Now, because I am a full-time worker, I could not just whip out my camera any time and snap some photos during the day. I had to wait for weekends to come, and even then sometimes I was just too busy running errands or doing some life admin. This is definitely a hindrance to my photography journey, but I will strive to take as many photos as I can to practice. Imagine a full-time worker trying to do astrophotography on a somewhat regular basis…

Definitely stay tuned!

Hello World!

TONY BUI