Day 38

The rain finally stopped and I took the camera out for a walk ( with the dogs of course! ) There is plenty of water around but the sun kind of struggled out and gave a hint of a rainbow, the first one of the year for me so I thought that it would be nice to get one in!

I'll be honest with you I cloned out the electricity lines and poles going straight across the middle of this as it made it look not very nice. Is it right to do that, well I'm happy enough to do that sort of editing as if I were a painter I'd miss them out?

Day 37

I wouldn't have thought a new camera body would change the way I look at taking photographs, however the generation step between the D90 and the D7000 is a fairly big one. Usually if I'm looking at taking a photo of James indoors I would grab the flash and maybe my 50mm f1.8 and make do with the ISO at around 200. Well this one was with my Sigma 70-300mm no flash and an ISO of 2500 yup that's right 2500! The D90 was OK at this but would loose detail and need a fair amount of noise reduction but the D7000 blew me away to be honest.
This opens up a huge amount of fun!!

Day 36

Well thank you Centrax for the gift of a nice new camera body, welcome to the age of the D7000!! Spent the afternoon messing about with the shiny new camera body and as it was getting rather dull thought I'll try out the higher ISO settings. This was shot at ISO 1250 with my lovely 50 f1.8 lens not a great deal of tweaking and noise reduction.

It was a nice surprise  getting a new body but it does mean a bit of a challenge to learn the subtle differences but it's something to look forward to!

As for the photo Wesley hurt his paw somehow and refused to move from this spot on the sofa and ignored any attempts to get him to look at me so i took the picture anyway!

Day 35

Had a hell of a drive home today managed to get back despite the weather and major hold ups on the M4! Thank The Lord for the roses that Pam had otherwise I have no idea what I would have taken!

Done a couple of photos this one is my favourite and just has a quick edit on my iPad I will do more to these later in Lightroom and Photoshop and put them on to DeviantArt.

 

 

 

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Day 34

Now I know what the big problem of doing this challenge is. Remembering what day it is! I guess I should rename the files as I go to remind me!

Today I had a drive down the Shannon Estuary as it was midday the light wasn't brilliant but I hopped out of the car and had a walk down to the beach bit took some OK photos. This one I picked as it's different. What caught my eye was the the pattern the lines made on the stones and the way they kind of linked up.

 

More good news because of this project I have started posting back on to my deviant art account! There are loads of photos on there and I will post a few of the others that didn't make it on to this blog. That's the hard thing at the moment taking a few good pictures and only posing one!

Oh I best put a link to it!

Chippy1965.deviantart.com

 

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Day 33

A few years ago when I was in Ireland I had a few days and went to Torc Falls in Kerry back then I didn't have the camera gear I do now so had an idea how I wanted the photo to look but just couldn't get the shot I wanted.

Well this time I have a ND filter and there had been a lot of rain so the falls I where fairly active.

The greatest compliment today was a fellow photographer was watching where I was taking shots from and as I moved he dropped in after me! I chatted to home later about slow shutter speed and actually gave him advice on how to achieve this kind of shot!

 

 

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Day 32

Oh start of the month start of something new then. Well I've never done this before tried to get a real sharp photo but as I'm tired lots of red lines so went for an out of focus to give a more arty look. Not edited at all so here we are then

This challenge is certainly getting me to think more about what I'm going to do and I think I'm improving as I'm doing more different sorts of pictures. I hope you like this.

 

 

 

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