Day 42

At least the rain has stopped for the moment allowing for a blue sky photo!! This is Pakenham Windmill on the road to Bury St Edmunds, I grabbed this on the way back from Manchester today. I'm thinking I could do this from various angles over the course of the year as I go past this many many times!

Day 41

Busy old day at work leading to a distinct lack of enthusiasm for photography! Well I was about to make myself a nice relaxing cup of tea when I thought I might as well try to take a good photo of something dull. Well here it is I think it's about as good as one could do with a bowl of beverages and a piece of white paper!

Hopefully tomorrow will bring something more thoughtful although the good thin about this is the fact that I could find a way of making this photo look ok. By being careful with the placing of the individual items to find a balance in the photo it becomes almost a pleasing arrangement. See all this work is paying off!

 

 

 

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Day 40

After a busy day yesterday I have a long drive in front of me today so it's a quick set up of a simple subject. The difficult thing is to light it nicely and reduce the reflections so this was put in front of a window which gave the shadow but was diffused enough not to cause too many problems with reflections.
Converted to B&W in Photoshop and a tweak of curves with a hint of sharpening.

Day 39

Norwich a Fine City,

Thanks to Ben for the loan of the balcony once again. This time the tripod was available which made the process a lot better. Used a longer focal length as I wanted more of the feel of the city rather than loads of detail.

So hows the project going? Well I'm finding it challenging and enjoyable at the same time, I'm doing a fair bit of reading and viewing others work getting ideas and gathering information all the time. This sort of project has been called the Iron Man of Photography and I'm beginning to see why. The longer the project goes on the more you start to look at the disciplines of photography.

Oh and for the animal lovers here's the photo Ben took of Harvey.

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!