2nd session of the course.

Well today, since it's Thursday once again I attended the photography course I've mentioned previously. Todya we went out of the studio onto the street, or to the old town of Poznan around the town square. Did I mention how coll the old streets look at night, must say very cool.

Anyway we learned to take photos at night without flash, and the rul to apply to judge what settings you must have in order for the pic to come out. A short version of it is, set camera onto S, flick down your aparture as far as it will go, say f3.5 in mine. Check your zoom, for instance say it's 20mm, than the minimum shutter speed you must have at least 1/20 or faster. If at the 1/20 speed you are getting underexposed dark photos than you need to bump up your ISO. Unfortunatly with the upped ISO, you will loose quality of the pic with noise appearing. But than again, it's better to have a sharp pic with noise than have non noise pic thats blurred.

What else, we player around with tripods, and taking longer shutter speed pics, ie; one pic I took was 30 sec. One thing the instructor has tought me is to use the A and S preselects more, I don;t need to do everything manually. Either one of these settings keeps you in control, the camera just does the manths for you.

Exposure compensation, well I finally got what that is today. Quite simply, if your pics are coming out to bright or to dark, and you want to change the exposure, well than rather than changing your speed or aparture, just dial in the + or - setting on your camera wihing 5 seconds, and away you go shooting. The camera does the maths once again.

Depth of field, we'll we learnt that the DOF depends on aparture, zoom and distance to the object. If you have the smallest aparture say f3.5, zoom at 200mm, and you are close to the subject, than the DOF will be small to put simply.

Anyway here is my latest post to the 365 project, and make sure you check out some of my other pics too. Leave a comment, they are always greatly appreciated.

Start of course

Well, started my photography course today. So far so good. Larned about aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focus importance in photography. Apparently technical aspects of photography. Well I am a lot better informed on these aspects now. Course is fun, and the other participants are keen amateurs like myself.

Next thurday we go out onto town to take some pics, if weather permits. Looking forward to that.

My day 9 entry into 365 comes from the simple pics we took at the course today, nothing special, but has learning vale in showing slow shutter speed effect on a picture.

Another day, another photo

Well, into day 8 of the project 365. A week has flown by, and although there were some picture blocks along the way, I've developed a forward thinking strategy and have already planned a few days ahead. I tell ya, with the cold outside most pics are planned indoors or more to the point in house. Cannot wait until the warmer weather and getting to the outdoors.

Awaiting my course to start, very excited about it, I think it will be a lot of fun and a hope I'll learn some new things that will take my pics to a new level.

For some reason I googled myself today (boredom of winter?). Anyway came across a blog which is dedicated to the suburb I used to live in Australia. More to the point the person running the blog used one of my pics on his blogs. THought I mark my work with as copyright, and the person did not ask if he/she could use the pic I really don't mind. Kind of makes me feel good, that someone would use my photo for something. Anyway must write the person an e-mail, with I guess a thanks for using the pic without my permission. Take a look at the blog if you'd like here.

Downloaded and installed LightRoom 3 today. Could just not work without it. Amazing how quickly you pickup a tool, and just cannot live without it. If you have not tried LightRoom yet, dowload the trial from the Adobe website. Post processing pictures with this tool is a dream, and with LR3 you have built in upload capability to flickr, smugmug & facebook thus making the process of getitng your art out is a dream.

Anyway, I'll add my most recent entries into the project here:

Day 6


Day 7


And today's entrie (Day 8)


The wife provided assistance by performing as a model for this session. You have to love her committment to my cause.