Making the Leap
Greetings! My name is Benjamin M. Weilert and I'm an amateur photographer.
Actually, now I'd like to consider myself as a professional photographer.
This happened slowly, taking pictures over time to refine my craft was quite the fun adventure and now I have quite a portfolio of interesting photographs that are now lining the walls of my house. For the longest time, I always would consider myself "amateur" because I wasn't confident enough to compare myself to other photographers out there. I would merely take the best photos I could and keep it at that. It wasn't until I started diving into post-processing of RAW images from my Nikon D7000 that I realized my pictures really "popped". Shortly before this, I had started entering my photographs into various online contests to see how they stacked up against other photographers. Soon, I'd collected a few wins and my confidence was built up. Then I started entering into more serious photography contests. My first...