Sunday 28 July 2013

Time out....

Not that I'm complaining because we love our social life & time spent with family & friends but we are always so flat out busy doing things with the people we love that we never seem to find time to catch up on things we need to do around the home.  Aside from housework & car cleaning which is easily set aside & around listing our lives on eBay, I have been totally neglecting my course work in favour of visiting family, friends, having weekends away, taking lovely long walks, going for nice meals & drinking in back gardens all in the sunshine & before I even knew it another month had passed when I hadn't even taken a look at my course work, although on the plus side the last month has seen my camera go into overdrive with all the places we have visited, including Portugal, but that's a whole separate blog story once i finally finish editing all 1,100 photos *gasp*

So today we decided to take some time out & play catch up & what a total success.  I have now completed Unit 4 - Mastering shutter speeds & Unit 5 - Cracking composition.

Unit 4 has taught me all about shutter speeds & the length of time they open up to allow light to hit the sensor adjusting how light or dark the photo ends up, whether the subject is frozen in time or moving & whether the background is sharp or blurry.  It was actually a lot to take in & a bit overwhelming all the facts and figures it was throwing at me about aperture & ISO settings but i must have taken it all in because i passed the test at the end & have been given my next assignment.

Unit 5 really caught my attention.  The first unit to teach me not just how to master the camera & the settings itself but advice on how to compose the perfect shot.  Horizontal, vertical, diagonal & forced perspective angles.  This unit has really got me eager to get back outside & capture some more photos with all the new methods I have been taught today.

So on the subject of photo angles & to brighten up this blog post a little, I'm going to leave you with a teaser photo from our holiday to Portugal.  Everybody meet Monte our monkey.

Becky Time

7 months overdue a visit, we finally got to squeeze in some Becky time a couple of weekends ago.  Becky is my school days friend, we go waaaaaaay back & so do all our memories together, so its always great to have some Becksta time, reminisce & have a catch up & whenever we are together its like we've never been apart, just how friendships should be.  This time was no different & the trio of us spent the weekend chilling, gas bagging, eating quality munch, dog walking & sunbathing in a paddling pool.  It's a hard life hehe.  Here are a couple of the photos i captured on our visit to Becky mansions.

 
 
 
 
 

London baby!

Back in June Steve & I took a little trip into London for a quick visit to Guys hospital so we decided to spent the rest of the day as tourists.  We spun round the London Eye, braved the London Dungeons, walked the beautiful South Bank together, watched the street entertainers & done a spot of people watching whilst having lunch in a lovely pub on the side of the Thames, it was a lovely day spent together in our great city & the perfect excuse to practice with the camera, here are some of the photos from our day.