Photography Fun

While T was at respite today I decided to finally try and work out how Mr. Bk’s fancy SLR-lookalike digital camera works. I’ve never done any photography apart from taking snaps but I ahd loads of fun and I really think might try and learn to take some decent pictures. Here are my rubbishy first attempts. Just remember I was only trying to work out what all the buttons and dials do, no fancy pretentions to picture composition or creativity.

First picture; a book case

bookcase

 And now i know what the macro button does; it’s for close-ups

butterfly

Most of the photos here have been resized to make them upload onto photobucket easily. But there’s a price to pay in quality of resolution. Here’s the butterfly one in it’s original form

S and I went to the park on a photo safari. Here’s two photos of the same tree, one without flash and one with

No flash

with flash

S obligingly leapt around the place while I practised snapping with the continuous movement function

movement 1

movement 2

Here’s another closeup shot. The idea was to get the conker in focus rather than the adolescent…..

conker

All the gulls buggered off just as I was taking this one

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  1. Gareth Said,

    December 3, 2006 @ 9:22 am

    I’ve started taking myself seriously…

    http://www.photoblog.com/user/grumpyoldman/

  2. Busyknitter Said,

    December 3, 2006 @ 9:50 am

    Lovely photos GOM. I think I’ve got quite a way to go.

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