Monday 23 August 2010
Weather like this it's time to....
Clean the camera kit. Yeah it's pretty rubbish out and I have a day at the coast planned tomorrow. Sadly not a photographic day but if I can sneak off for a dawn shoot I will do. Anyway with weather like this and still a massive lack of hay bales I'm putting my time to use constructively and cleaning the camera kit.
Quite a few of my students now have DSLR's and a couple of lenses. We mess about with aperture a lot and suddenly when we are hitting F22 they are noticing the good old dust spots. So I have now built into the lessons for this year a little bit of camera cleaning advice and how to change those lenses in a way to reduce the amount of dust entering the body.
Right for now have a snap of some corn fields - I got an email telling me this isn't corn from an American follower of my work. Good old English eh?
Quite a few of my students now have DSLR's and a couple of lenses. We mess about with aperture a lot and suddenly when we are hitting F22 they are noticing the good old dust spots. So I have now built into the lessons for this year a little bit of camera cleaning advice and how to change those lenses in a way to reduce the amount of dust entering the body.
Right for now have a snap of some corn fields - I got an email telling me this isn't corn from an American follower of my work. Good old English eh?
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Lack of shooting
Well it has been a few days since the camera has been taken out of the bag for anything decent. A short trip out to Matlock was had on Sunday but more for a day out than any photography. Fingers crossed the camera will be taken out with me later today. Like to try some shots of round hay bales - saw some coming home on the weekend and just hope they are still there!
Saying that the sky is pretty flat at present but it could make for some interesting heavy skies after a bit of PP.
Saying that the sky is pretty flat at present but it could make for some interesting heavy skies after a bit of PP.
Friday 13 August 2010
Just Starting
OK so I thought it was about time to start dropping in a few bits and bobs about what I am doing with the camera. I have 4 weeks left before the courses start again at college so hopefully there will be time to go out and get some decent shots taken.
I'm on a really hunt for round hay bales at present. They sure take them in quickly after the floods in 2007. Some new wind turbines have popped up locally too so fingers crossed some shots of those will be taken soon.
I also need to work on the Photoshop side of things. Have 10 weeks worth of instructions to write in the next few weeks. The class are getting pretty good at it too so some more complicated things this time round - mind the Out of Bounds session was pretty intensive for a lot of them!
Anyway here is a shot of some turbines from Lissett, near Beverley with a nice summer sky above them...
I'm on a really hunt for round hay bales at present. They sure take them in quickly after the floods in 2007. Some new wind turbines have popped up locally too so fingers crossed some shots of those will be taken soon.
I also need to work on the Photoshop side of things. Have 10 weeks worth of instructions to write in the next few weeks. The class are getting pretty good at it too so some more complicated things this time round - mind the Out of Bounds session was pretty intensive for a lot of them!
Anyway here is a shot of some turbines from Lissett, near Beverley with a nice summer sky above them...
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