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Howdy, I'm Alex S. Leung.


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As a native of Toronto, Ontario (Canada), I didn't have much subjection to photography growing up until high school, when an older friend of mine began letting me borrow his 35mm Canon SLR (EOS 700) to play with. In those early days, I knew little about photography but simply loved capturing still moments of life. Using my parent's 35mm Canon point-and-shoot, I would take so many photos that I had to start purchasing cheaper film & printing them
at cheaper development stores! When my friend began lending me his Fuji digital camera (FinePix 6800Z), I began learning to frame my photos better to create more artistic images.

After a long period of nagging my parents, I received my first digital
camera (Sony DSC-P72), I was ecstatic and took it with me wherever I went. I used it on all trips, big and small, and soon enough, bought additional memory to satisfy my trigger-itch. However much I loved taking photos with my old Sony camera, it just wasn't good enough for my advancing photography needs. It didn't have any manual functions: unable to let me change aperture, shutter speed, or ISO. Thus I began looking for the best semi-manual, non-SLR digital camera available.

In the Christmas of 2005, my parents bought me the 7.1mp Canon A620--the highest megapixel point-and-shoot with manual mode camera available at the time. I bought a 2gb SD card for it, and started taking photos unceasingly. In due time, I realized that I needed to care more about the quality of my images instead of just quantity. Thus, I started learning online about how to take better photos by adjusting aperture, shutter speed, and ISO in full-manual mode, and also started learning how to Photoshop my photographs.

I am hardly a pro at photography, so in the immediate future I'd like to
improve on my photography and post-processing skills. Hopefully in the near future, can have enough money saved up to get my own DSLR so I can really get into taking more professional looking portraits and landscapes.

My current dream camera: Nikon D5000 with the legendary 18-200mm AF-S DX VR lens!

HARDWARE:
Most photos are taken with my Canon A620.
I also use: Fujifilm FinePix 6800Z, Sony DSC-P72, Sony Ericsson S710a




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