lewro’s blog - 2.1 - web designer beginner

As I have mentioned before I have planned to get a better camera. My simple automatic SONY camera was very good in taking nice pictures but there was not that much fun in that process. It is just a simple point & shoot camera.

Sooooo here comes the fun

I bought CANON 400D with 2 pairs of lenses, 18-50 and 55-200. All together with 4 gig memory card. That means no more 1 meg pictures because of luck of space. From now on there will be only 10 meg RAW images.

Why did I chose this camera?

My knowledge about DSLR is very close to zero but I have done some research. This camera is one the of the best selling and one of the most popular on flickr and what more two of my friends have recommended it to me.

Learning process

There is a huge field in from of me and that is learning all about manual settings. The manual has about 180 pages so that should be good starting point. But after that I will definitely need more information in form of book or web site.

If you are asking where I will find the time to learn about manual web camera settings that is the question I do not really know the answer. Let’s see. Life is long.

So if you know about any good sources of information for DSLR beginners please drop me a link below.

Last couple of days I have been looking for a job as a junior web designer or I should better say I was looking for web sites where you can find such a job offers. I have found a few but not a lot. I was trying to do a lot of searching on the google but the results were not that satisfying. When I found web sites which specialise for IT related jobs, the job offers for junior web designers where close to zero.

In the mean time I was working on my second web design project. You can see the design proposal on my flickr page.

Life is hard that is why it is funny to live it

Sometimes it is not that easy to manage all my projects during the day. Especially when I study or do the coding till 1 a.m. and next day I get up at 6 a.m. going for a little exercise in the gym before the work starts. When I live like this for five, six days usually it ends up the way that after coming from work I fell sleep and wake up next morning. That recharges my batteries so I can continue this five hour sleeping business for another couple of more days.

But anyway it does not stop me from study process. Once you have the passion that is like addiction. I read books two hours a day and read important web sites and blogs about 1 hour a day. The rest of the time I spent working with Photoshop or coding in Dreamweaver which is about 4 hours.

Am I human being?

Obviously not every day is like this but most of them are. Two, three times a week I am human being so I go for a trip or walk in the park with my girlfriend or spend some time watching DVDs or podcasts from iTunes, gardening, cooking etc. That is where my photos on Flickr come from. I wish the day has at least 100 hours.

Help

If you guys know about any good web sites which present junior web designer jobs in London, please let me know. That would really help.

Thank you.