Saturday, February 27, 2010


My Erin played muse for me today down at Margate beach.......











hope you have had fun with your camera today..... hugz


Friday, February 26, 2010


Ok I have decided that this weekend I'm going to focus on f stops... One of the basics for using SLR's in the pre digital age, they are still just as important but with a lot of people only using full auto settings on there digi SLR's its easy to forget what they are used for... so lets all refresh on f stops.

Best we go back to pre digi SLR days when the lens was how we controlled our f stop setting...

f stops are a measure of the diameter of aperture ( or how far the shutter will open ) for a given setting this effects the amount of light that will be exposed to the film or in the case of digi cameras the image sensor...

The ' f ' stands for fraction so the number that follows denotes the actual fraction of opening of the lens eg. f 9 is 1/9 ... hence the lower the number the greater the opening the higher the number the smaller the opening eg. f4 - 1/4 , f16 - 1/16...

So from this we get the smaller the f stop the more light you allow to be exposed because of the greater aperture of the lens and the greater the f stop the reverse, less light will be exposed due to the smaller aperture of the lens...


f4.5 at 1/320 sec iso 400



f6.3 at 1/320 sec iso 400




f9 at 1/320 sec iso 400



Ok have we got that........ any questions????



Sunday, February 21, 2010


OMG it has only taken 24hrs for me to find and get logged back into my blog........What the hell!

I had a dream about it the other night so well here I am for the first time in like ever.....lol

Ok I have a lot to update then....... I'am no longer lost in the desert, am safe and sound back in OZ where no arabs can dictate how my life should be lived....... I have my life back!

On the creative side of things I had completely shut myself down while in the UAE and had given up on most forms of expression, but since being back I find myself wanting to create and finding new ways to do this so all is on the mend and life is looking up......

Now I have sorted my login over the next week I will be changing the name and header of my blog to reflect where I'm at now, so please drop by later in the week to check it out..... I would also like to take this blog in the direction of photography basics as I need to brush up on some stuff and maybe you all would like to help me or share the journey too.........

As my camera and lens are in a desperate need of a service and clean my pics aren't to the best quality :0( sorry! But your all understanding people.......

So Hello again and hope to see you all back at the end of the week ............ Hugz


Monday, June 15, 2009

Going RAW .............

I have used the RAW setting on my camera before but I could not get the hang of how to edit them and they did take up a lot of space on my memory card too, but once again the Practical Photography mag has given me a few heads ups on the best way to use and edit RAW files.

Here is 2 portraits of Erin I have tweeked up and no photoshop needed just adjustments in brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and sharpness.





Using RAW has not degraded the quality of the photo after editing unlike a jpeg and as someone who likes to play with my pics I think I will shoot a bit more in this form, just need a bigger memory card! Maybe 16G!!!!!

HUGZ.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Howdy......................

Yes it has been ages since my last post , but I've been having a melt down again!! All Etihad's fault.

To keep my mind off the CR%P that just seems to keep flowing, I've tried to keep my self in a creative frame of mind! Kind of works for a while at least.

I got my hands on a copy of Practical Photography which gave me some inspiration to play with my camera, these pics are what I came up with after reading one of the articals..........





Working with small things is something I can do inside, these Monopoly tokens were fun to play with I think I might have to fosick around for some more minis to take pics with.


And here is my first layout in nearly 2 months, am finding it hard to scrap..........




I have also been doing Inchies will post pics next time....

HUGZ



Friday, May 29, 2009

Salam to all................

Still can't shake off this dam cough starting to drive me a little crazy!!

Cameron went back to work today after having nearly a month off, the kids are nearing the end of their school year with only 5 more weeks to summer break. It still feels so strange having the kids finish mid year and start back in September..........
I have been doodling, Erin named this Heart angle ...............




I also have some more Henna pics that I took before I went to OZ.............





The last one is my fav of them all ........ There is something very feminine about wearing a shayla.......
Need to get out of the appartment so I'm off.... hope you have a good day,
HUGZ

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Lazy day...........

With the heat outside the best escape is to just stay at home in the aircon which makes for a very lazy day and with Summer on the way there are going to be lots more of them!!!!!!!!

But I got out my art journal and a pencil and had a bit of a draw, so maybe that is what I can do through the long Summer months tucked away in my appartment.


Well at least my cough is getting better,
HUGZ