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

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.

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

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

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