I added the second kit lens to my new camera this afternoon and set the camera onto Aperture Priority. I was expecting a step change in quality but did not get it. I think this was my favourite shot. The lens is a zoom covering 40 mm to 150 mm. I tried it at both …
Category archives: Imaging
It’s Impossible
There is an idea in my head that involves sending hard copy photographs by post to selected correspondents once we are on the move. I enjoy snail mail and I know many people that do likewise. If we are on a Snail Trail, what could be more appropriate. What I should like to do is …
Toot Toot
Time for some trumpet blowing, I’m afraid. Remember I put in some images for this years third Monthly competition at the Orkney Camera Club? I came home from our trip to the big island to find that the results had been published – and I was quite literally lost for words, which is why I …
M3
It’s the Orkney Camera Club competition time again. The last of the three “Monthly” competitions had its deadline this week. Unsurprisingly for me, having known about the topic and submission date since last September, I spent most of Sunday and Monday in trying to capture some of the ideas that have been swilling around in my head since Autumn. …
Me, Myself and I
The December monthly competition at the Orkney Camera Club has the theme: Myself. The theme guidance given reads: Doesn’t have to be a selfie but it can be if you wish! It is time to turn the camera around and create a set of images that reflect you as a photographer. You can take it quite …
The die is cast
That wasn’t so very difficult after all… What a lot of time I wasted the other day in anguishing over which images to submit to the Orkney Camera Club! Writing the post about it was exactly the right thing to do and it clarified my thinking enormously. I selected those images that I most wanted …