oooooo lovely evening!

Well I was sat at home I looked out my window and the rubbish day had turned into a lovely evening (lovely but cold I was soon to find out!) 

So I grabbed the camera and went to the local seaside as it's only down the road, unfortunately the sunset was a bit of a let down but it was still some good practice! 

not much writing tonight, more pictures though! so here you go.....

 

About now.. is when I could no longer feel my fingers :D

I hope I've not bored you to much with these photos in fact I hope you've enjoyed them... 

Please leave me any feedback!!!

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it's official, i'm still a novice !

I say I'm still a novice... I actually know ALOT more than when I first started which for self teaching has got to be a good thing :)

Starting to learn a bit more about f-stops and shutter speeds... white balances and other stuff like that still not 100% on how to do it with my camera, yet!

But moving on to todays pictures I had 9 days off and pretty much every single day it was bucketing it down with rain, so as soon as I got an all right day I was out and here are some of the results....

First off my favourite image of the day 

I have this one and one slightly darker and one slightly brighter... and I change my mind on which I prefer constantly!

This next one is my mums favourite! for this picture I was just trying out having the focus in the foreground with something big behind..

Then I tried it a little closer and tbh I prefer this next picture

I then just went round the church taking random pictures seeing what I could find, there were a few things but I don't rate any of the pictures fantasticly but here are a few..

none of these pictures have been edited at all... and I do have a few more but these are just a sample :) 

Hope you enjoy and please leave any feedback and comments you have! 

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Right before nandos!...

Today I went round to my friend Vickis with the full intention to practice some portrait shots, but ended up getting distracted by the vase of flowers in her living room!..

This is Vicki !

I tried all sorts of shots, different angles, different focus' trying to focus on one flower then another, I even tried removing pettles because they bent the wrong way and I didn't like them sticking up like that!

We then decided to go to Nandos but had to wait for our other friend to get dressed so I decided to then take some pictures of a set of ducks.. which did NOT go so great haha anyway here are the results!

This was my first attempt and wasn't to happy and the bottom left corner but was still rather pleased with how it came out

I then tried again zoomed in slightly closer, which I was rather happy with... 

Then this was supposed to be just a general picture of them all with them getting blurred further to the back.. I really liked the way this one turned out!

On this picture it took me a while to get as this is the one I wasn't happy with the pettle because it was bent upwards, so Vicki suggested take them out so I did and then put one back but upside down so it looked normal because it had left a gap.

I like this one but it's probably not many peoples cup of tea.. I just like the crispness of the yellow against the white with the blurred living room behind.

And this is my favourite flower picture from today.

I just love everything about it... but please comments!! 

After all of these flower pictures I decided to take some pictures of model ducks.. which did not go so succesfully! 

 
 Some were over exposed some were under and some I just didn't like.. 

 Basically it was a pointless venture for me... please do give feedback though! 

Hope you enjoyed todays!! 

as always feedback very welcome :) 

Lens cap on?

My year so far!

 Started with some pretty good news! and its just been getting better and better! 

I finally got back to taking a few snaps after taking a little bit of time off to get my round a few things..

I have a few new pictures, but todays efforts started rather badly as I was totally confused for about 10 minutes as to why ALL my shots were coming out black!!.. no matter what I did. black! and then i give up, until I turn the camera and low and behold I had left the lens cap on, because I am that good, oops!

 On the Santa photos (you'll see) I managed to get the shot I wanted, but then when I was trying to get what wanted with my watch it just didn't quite work.. I managed to get it better.. but still not happy with it, its not bad I don't think for a quick 10 minutes! but please tell me what you think :)

 this is the shot I wanted ! I ended up taking about 50 pictures to get this one.. every single one  slightly different but this something I was determined to get!

and I'm rather pleased with it.

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This however was not the shot I wanted but for some reason I love it just as much!

At first it was 

far to dark

Started to get better...

I got the lighting right in this one but it was to blurry and the picture just isn't right, the blinds and sky are distracting, so I tried a different approach.

This was pretty much the shot I wanted but not entirely I wanted it to be slightly brighter!....

Well these are my efforts for today ! I hope you enjoy these ones! 

comments welcome :D