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

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

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????

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