I don't like these shots!

Taken today at Wakehurst Place. What a beuatiful day it has been! Trouble was, I went with a friend and we walked around chatting, so I wasn't able to concentrate on my photography really. I do love trees at this time of year and the beautiful patterns the bare branches make against the blue sky!














My digital radio, that I have constantly tuned to Radio2!




















A true everyday thing, my tin of WW soup for dinner!

I am not sure why I don't like these pics. I am a bit disappointed with all my photos lately. The second 2 were taken on a high ISO setting, and so seem a little grainy. But my photos generally seem a little bit out of focus. Perhaps my lens needs cleaning or maybe there's a bit of camera shake. Certainly on my close ups, I keep getting the wrong bit in focus! For example, (I deleted it now!) I took another pic of the tin of soup which had the lid in focus but the writing out of focus and it didn't work for me.

Week One -Exposure

Here are some photos I took this morning on our dog walk (an everyday thing!) We walked along the river at Shoreham, so most of my photos don't fit with the everyday thing theme!

I tried out different exposures and looked at the histogram. But I am not sure how to read the histogram. I understand that there is not a perfect histogram, but there is an optimum of 2 peaks towards the edges of the graph. But most of mine just had one peak in the middle! Think I need to read up on it more. Off to find my manual.

The car had a lovely reflection of the house in it! I think it makes the photo look a bit messy.

Theme

I have chosen my theme: EVERYDAY THINGS.

I am keen to scrapbook my everyday life this year, so this course will hopefully get me taking some good photos for this project! I think it's wide enough to cover all the modules, and easy enough to find subjects to photogrpah (I don't have to go anywhere!)

It's a lovely bright morning out there, so off I go!

Cheryl's masterclass

I have signed up for Cheryl's Masterclass http://www.feelgoodphotos.co.uk/. So I am going to use this blog as a place to record my thoughts, post inspirational photos, and post my own photos.

This week is EXPOSURE. So this weekend I intend to take my camera with me wherever I go and take photos changing the exposure. I do normally use Aperture priority on my camera, and change apperture for the depth of field that I want. So now I must experiment some more! And check the histogram - not something I do at the moment, mainly cos I don't know what it means!!

sps and sos

Two self portraits today! This one Maurice took for me, becasue I want it for my A-Z of everyday things album, A is for anorak!! The second photo is my wellington footprint in the sand.

Here's my show off picture! Taken this morning on the beach - which is still full of wood washed up from the ship that sunk off Portland Bill recently. It was a really gorgeous morning, and I managed to get a few 'blurry backgrounds'.

Ring

Sorry for the poor quality photo! I wanted to take a photo of my poor old engagement ring! It got pulled out of shape a couple of months ago when Merlin pulled on the lead! I MUST get it to the jewellers to be mended, and it probably wants resizing now.

It was DH's grandmother's ring. I don't think it is particluarly valuable, it has 2 small sapphires and a diamond set into a sort of swirl setting (very trendy now!! LOL)

Due to poor light and the fact I don't ownm a macro lens, I decided to take the photo of it perched on top of this chinese box, which also has a ring on it! Please excuse the dust LOL!

Indulge

This wonderful kit from Scrapagogo arrived in the post today (along with a CJ and a kit from Scrapping Angels!) This is a real indulgence - it is soooo exciting to open the yellow box and stroke the contents! Trouble is, that's all I seem to do with it! So sadly, I have decided to stop my subscription and start to use the kits.