29th January 2006

SHOCK HORROR

I am not posting a picture for today..... I have come to notice a deafening silence on this blog. I don't think that anyone is reading it.... and it takes time and effort every day to choose pictures, edit them, post them.

So if you are reading this, and would like more, please comment. Even just an anonymous Yes will do. Otherwise, I think I'll have to cut it down. I was so proud of my 3 weeks in a row, but I feel like I'm talking to the air at the moment...

Is anyone out there?

28th January 2006

Canon 350D, 28-105mm lens, 75mm, Iso 400, 1/100, f4.5

Here's something a bit different.... I thought I'd do the dreaded square crop for a bit of variety. It worked better for this shot than any other. I just fell in love with this amazing soft colour, took quite a few shots of it... this was the best. Not that it's fantastic. But it's a gorgeous flower.

27th January 2006

Original photo shot Canon 350D, 50mm lens, Iso 400, 1/500 sec f6.3.

Ok, so this photo has been edited to death, but I kinda like it in a funky way... just goes to show what you CAN do... with a photograph. These flowers are peeking their faces over our back fence... our neighbours must have planted them. However they were originally shot against the sun, so I thought they were no more than silhouettes.... I selected around them, then pushed the curves of the image way way up and there it was.. all the glorious colour and detail. The sky was so washed out it was almost white, so I've given it a bit of blue... summer evening blue.

I like the result, but I'd love to hear your opinions!!

26th January 2006

Canon 350D, 50mm, Iso 1600, 1/250sec, f4.5

Ok, so this is not a technically brilliant shot. I don't think I even cropped it all that well.... but it's so cool. And hey, it's my blog, I'll post if I want to!! and I love this picture!

25th January 2006

Canon 350D, 50mm lens, ISO 400, 1/400, f5

It's really hard to take a good photo of something white... the camera has trouble focusing on it, and it always comes out washy... some levelling done and a teeny tiny sharpen. I love my white agapanthus!

24th January 2006

Canon 350D 50mm lens, Iso 400, 1/400 second, f5

He's a cheeky boy!! I took this in my homemade carport studio today. Good mottled backdrop, and a lot of very light coloured pavers off to the side giving good reflected light! I"m not a user of the funny angled shot normally, I just thought I'd try something different.

23rd January 2006

Canon 350D, 28-105mm lens at 73mm. Iso 100, 1/160 sec, f4.

This is quite an old photo, in celebration of a small achievement. We just got printed out A3 size this photo and another one slightly different composition, and I framed them myself (with some help from my Dad!) and we hung them up tonight. Black mats and frames, on a green wall. Just spectacular. So woohoo for me!