Sunday, December 11, 2011

November collage

November collage by sally_re
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Another month - the penultimate month - and though I fell behind twice, I've managed to catch up!

334/365

334/365 by sally_re
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Toby just saw his advent calendar....and realised the countdown is about to begin! He's a bit excited...

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

333/365

333/365 by sally_re
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And here's a selection of the pictures I took on Sunday. They aren't great but each one was a specific exercise in using my camera correctly and NOT keeping it permanently on the automatic setting! I really learnt a lot and recommend Frui if they pop up on a groupon again!

332/365

332/365 by sally_re
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I've always wanted to take a picture where the object I wanted to focus on sort of popped out of the background - and now I understand how to do it - this isn't the most interesting picture but it really showed me how to use aperture to draw peoples eyes to the object I'm wanting them to!

331/365

331/365 by sally_re
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I went on a fab photography course today that I bought on a Groupon - run by Frui.co.uk it was a beginners guide to DSLR and it was really useful. Our tutor Alex Macro (www.alexmacro.co.uk) is a passionate professional photographer and he was really great at teaching us. We sat and discussed the ISO/Aperture/Shutter speed capabilities and then he took us outside to SHOW us - which I found much more helpful.

So here is Alex demonstrating how important shutter speed is when taking pictures of fast moving things!