I have treated myself to a new camera – a Canon EOS 100D. It was bought on a whim which is unlike me as I normally labor over such investments but I am in that sort of mood at the moment and I had the funds so why not. It is my very first DSLR and I am determined not to rely on the automatic settings but learn to use the functions properly. The biggest stumbling block is that as soon as someone starts talking about aperture, shutter speed and exposure my mind goes blank, just like when I was learning fractions at school. There is nothing there, just the sound of the wind whistling around the void!! It is this reaction which has stopped me buying a DSLR for some years but I have decided to overcome this and get a grip.
None of the photographs in this post have been taken on automatic, some are on manual and some are using macro and I am rather pleased so far. I have done some research on line and I have found some information written in a non-techy way which is slowly beginning to make sense. One of the bits of advice I read was that you can always improve a photo using photoshop or some other form of software. The camera comes with software which I have uploaded on my laptop but the editing in these images was done using the simple photo editing software that comes on my laptop and I am rather pleased.
My youngest, the design whiz, has been showing me how to tweak the color intensity etc and applied some cropping to the photos. He did the allium and I did the other two.
Then we really messed around and turned the cat into a tiger. She thinks she is a tiger so we made her more orange. She is roaring as she doesn’t like the sound of my new camera especially as it has been pointed at her so much!!
