my boy...

Took this shot of my boy Ozzi yesterday while we hung out together on the front porch! I'm working hard at trying to use my camera off of the fully automatic setting. This was shot in AV mode and I think I like that mode best so far. I feel comfortable knowing that the camera will choose my shutter speed as long and I can choose the aperture setting. Either way, it's going to be a long road ahead of me of learning, but I'm really excited to be understanding it just a bit more each time I take shots!

The master image had a bit of a blueish cast to it, I'm thinking a lot of it had to do with where I was shooting the picture of him, so I did make an adjustment to the white balance and I upped the saturation just a twitch to help warm up the browns in his coat...hopefully I will get "good" enough to where I won't have to rely on post camera processing in the future!



This next shot was also taken yesterday..same spot, front porch.



Here is one of the flowers I have planted in a small planter on my front porch (actually the reason I was out there shooting). I have recently purchased some extension tubes for my zoom lens, in the hopes of staving off the purchase of a macro lens for a while. While I love portraiture photography and want to get better at that, my real passion is in macro and landscape or fine art photography. I used one of the three tubes for this shot and again, it is shot in AV mode but manual focus (which can be difficult for me with my poor eyesight, however, the extension tubes render the auto focus feature useless)..I think the lighting is good. I like how you can see the droplets of water on the petals. I am taking this shot with me to my next instruction for critiquing and hoping that there is something correct in it! LOL

Either way, I enjoy looking at it and, really, when it is all said and done...photography is an art and art is subjective to what a person sees and enjoys. While there are correct ways to light and expose a shot, ultimately, if I enjoy the shot, that is all that I really care about!

What do you think?



I turned out to be a rather GORGEOUS day today! I thought we were going to have rain, but Mr. Sun decided to stay instead! I was able to get out and check out my new garden (it's looking pretty darn good!), water it and all my flowers and now, I think I'll sit myself out on the front porch again and enjoy!

Until next time,
Blessings!