I decided that I really ought to learn how to use my DSLR camera properly, so I booked onto a community photography course.
It is only 5 weeks long, but there are different stages that you can attend. I missed the introductory course, but managed to get on the 'Next Steps' course.
I was worried that I may have missed vital information from the intro lessons, but as it turned out I hadn't missed too much and he recapped anyway, so I managed to catch up fairly quickly.
The lesson was based around Apertures today. I love macrophotography so I tend to use a F2.8 or lower if I can as I love a nice blurry background! So today was right up my street.
Unfortunately, I had left my macro 1:1 lens at home (school boy/girl error) so I had to make do with my contemporary 18 - 300m lens. I had a lot of comments about how big it was haha
I learned how to manipulate an image using the exposure adjustment option on my camera, which is quite a cool thing to learn when you like taking arty shots.
The automatic mode will always assume you want to see everything in the shot and can sometimes overexpose everything, but if you control it yourself, you can make certain parts of the image as light or as dark as you want them to be.
The tutor had brought along a lot of random items as well as bright lights and torches to get us using our imagination on lighting up our subjects. Some were more creepy than others, I think he was still in Halloween mode...
This final image is my favourite, it reminds me of Christmas which is of course only around the corner! The sparkle adds a certain magic to the image.
These images were taken on week 1 of my photography course and I will post the images each week with a description of what we learn.
All the images here are my own and I used my Nikon D5300 and my 18 - 300mm contemporary lens.
I hope you have enjoyed the images, thank you so much for visiting!
Much love, BB xx
