This week I really wanted to get a photo of the sun setting. I missed it on Friday but I managed to grab my camera and run outside this evening. I tried a couple of shots minus the zoom burst however the trees got in the way and it didn’t really capture it the way I wanted to, and then the zoom snapped back and all was right with the world….well with the picture anyway 🙂 Taken with EOS Canon 40D
This week was a bit trickier than others, I am usually quite rushed on Fridays (the day I normally upload and take my pictures) so it is challenging to take a picture I am happy with, edit and upload it in the limited time that I have. I don’t normally edit my pictures I prefer to get the best out of what I can do with just me and my camera. This week I could not find my Canon 600D, which I prefer to use and is lighter and simpler than my 40D. When I use my 600D I generally use fully automatic, however on my 40D I either go for Av or Tv because I like to do a lot manually on the 40D as i have had it for longer and therefore no my way around it better. However I was having problems with this particular shot as I was trying to balance the depth of field and aperture at the same time because the trees in the background were to prominent for my little gnomy in the foreground but tricky as the light balance would then be uncontrollable and got fairly frustrating- as I didn’t have very long ( hence this being put up late). When I scrolled through the pictures I had taken on my camera screen I wasn’t too pleased with what I was seeing and then my time was up soooo I started contemplating whether I should put one up or not because none were a decent standard. So a little while ago I uploaded them and decided that I would put one up, no matter how bad it was, with the intentions of redoing the photo and putting it up for next weeks photo and saying what I had changed, or I would just do quite a bit of editing ;D. But when gnomy came up on my laptop screen looking as good as he did I was quite content with the little one-eyebrowed guy and decided that gnomy had done well and rightfully deserved to be my week 7 photo.
camera : 600D
I find that the dust and the effects from the flash are the essence of this photo. I took the exact same photo, minus the flash, and all the colours were much warmer and there was no trace of the dust. I really enjoy photographing guitars because there is so much to cover: the curves, the strings, the head and a plectrum here and there.
camera: canon 40D
I have always wanted to take a picture of my mum’s old vinyl records and this project gave me the perfect opportunity to do so. I love the old names down the sides and the edges are a bit battered giving the picture interesting textures. I wasn’t too sure whether it was vynl records(my gran’s guess) or vinyl records (my guess after plenty of google searches) so please do excuse me if I am wrong.
The life of a young photographer 