June Highlights

| Helen

Still here… 6 months into my Photo Challenge and I am delighted to still be taking pictures, trying new things, experimenting, repeating ideas and finding out what I like … but I also feel I am finding out where my gapping holes are … I need to

  • Think about my ISO, shutter and aperture triangle more…
  • Think about exposure and the white balance more and use my grey card properly.
  • Think about Light and Understand it more.
  • Continue learning Lightroom

Hopefully some of the ideas will be reflected in the forth coming images … and although I am going to read up more… I am going to do more practical experiments as after all….

Photography is not about having the most cameras, that only shows you’ve got plenty to spend. Photography is not about collecting photobooks, that only shows you appreciate art. Photography is about making photographs, that’s when you are a photographer.

ISO200, F5.6, 1/500 sec – How today’s youth explore … sat in the garden on their phone!
ISO 160, F13, 1/80 sec – a hole with a castle view
Sigma 150-500mm lens, ISO 1600, F5, 1/400 sec – Rescue Officer over the cliff.
More reflections of me
Coffee Cake
ISO400, F4, 1/3200 sec – Blue Sky beyond
Lightroom Image edited to remove the lens flair – 4 different images in Lightroom HDR
ISO400, F10, 67 sec exposure
ISo400, 1/800 sec, F5.6
ISO400, F7.1, 1/1000 sec
ISO400, F7.1, 1/1250 sec
Forget me nots
8 week old smiler
8 week old baby Freddie
8 week old sailor
Sigma 18/250mm lens, ISO200, F14, 1/320 sec – Look there is the sea
Sigma 18-250mm lens, ISO200, F14, 1/100 sec – The tower from the cliff edge
Star Trails another attempt
ISO100, F8, 1/60 sec – 63mm focal length on 18-250mm lens, polarising filter + tripod, cropped
ISO100, F16, 1/40sec – 18mm focal length on 18-250mm lens, polarising filter + tripod
ISO400, F8, 1/1600 sec
Wild Orchid, growing on the local common – ISO100, F5, 1/500 sec
Black background, ISO100, F5, 1/400 sec
ISO100, 18-250mm lens, 21mm zoom, F16, 1/100
ISO100, 18-250mm lens, 18mm zoom, F22, 1/25
ISO100, F6.3, 1/250 sec
A variety of photos for GCSE homework.
ISO100, F10, 1/250 sen – Manual – stuido shot with 1 off camera flash.
ISO 1250, 1/320 sec, F5.6
Bee on Foxgloves
The charcoal kiln in Poundhead Inclosure
Darkest exposure edited in Light room with the shadows darkened, clarity and vibrancy boosted
Close Up of African Grey
Moving around – one month old parrot
Cherry Scones, ISO 100, F6.3, 1/13 sec
Lime biscuits, ISO 100, F4.5, 1/40 sec
Lightroom Edited, ISO100, F11, 1/320 sec, 15-70mm lens, 23mm focal length
ISO100, F16, 1/100 sec, 17mm focal length on 17-70mm lens
ISO400, F5, 1/250 sec – 17mm focal length – Manual mode
A montage of the presentation
1/4000 sec, Silver reflector