Have spent an entertaining afternoon trying to understand how photographing moving water works. I read about it and tried it out variously on the water coming out of the shower head – very unsatisfactory white background – and then some deeply unpicturesque and pretty unsuccessful attempts at the weir in Emberton Park. Came home and then read some more – and found that my camera has a few helpful settings already programmed in!
So here one extreme (fairly slow) and the other extreme (fairly fast) with the camera sorting out the rest – taken at the Olney Mill race.
And then I bought a new camera. I was going to buy a little compact point and shoot with more zoom than the Pentax – but John had watched the Gadget Show – and they did a bit on digital bridge cameras. The Sony came out overall best and most expensive, naturally – but the Panasonic did really well too and I couldn’t afford that either so I bought one!
And it’s great! It seems reasonably simple to use, I don’t speak f-stops and ISO levels and stuff – but it has pictures and presets and joysticks and nice easy buttons to press. The results may not be especially great phtography, but it is fun.
I took this hellebore picture in the garden and then took out the background – and that was fun too. There will be no time for blogging from now on!!
Life seems to have been too busy to update the blog (or the website!) recently – and I really should be in bed.
Have taken on a commission to do a website for Jennys fledgling business and I just need to link to it here. Found what seems to be the ideal = cheap but with good reviews specialist WordPress host – which means that I can gradually handover control of the CMS to the client and be on hand for technical support.
Hope it works – in the meantime here it is: