Sunday, 22 September 2013
An Afternoon at Eastbourne Harbour
I spent yesterday wondering around Eastbourne's Sovereign Harbour snapping pictures of marine life.
Monday, 9 September 2013
Photo Challenge #1 "Complimentary Colours"
I found this awesome website the other day. A new photo challenge every Tuesday. Click on the link for more information.
Photo Challenge
This week's challenge involved taking a picture where the two primary colours contrasted with one another. Here is my entry...
Photo Challenge
This week's challenge involved taking a picture where the two primary colours contrasted with one another. Here is my entry...
Sunday, 8 September 2013
Saturday, 7 September 2013
It's supposed to be a fajita...
I'm far from the world's best photographer and even further away from being the world's best chef, but tonight I mixed the two...
Shooting Fruit
So by some random internet miracle (or just some weird cyber internet hacking system) I have clocked up 37 page views on this blog despite just one post.
16 from the USA and 2 from Serbia, the rest are British.
How are you people finding me?!
Anyway, I picked up my camera and started shooting shiny fruit - because, you know, shiny fruit is always worth a photo.
Despite owning the DSLR camera for about a month now, I am only just starting to fully understand how to set the correct exposure. Taken indoors on manual mode the ISO was 2500. I don't own a tripod so a quick shutter speed was needed (1/80s) and I used a large aperture (f5.3) to let in the maximum light.
I heard that setting a high ISO should be avoidable due to the disadvantage that a higher ISO=more noise but I feel this photo looks sharp enough for my liking. I suppose if I wanted to zoom in on the image in post-production we might begin to see some of that noise.
In other news I handed back Splinter Cell Blacklist to Blockbuster after a week's rental. Brilliant game that is probably worthy of a buy rather than just a rental. Co-op was the most enjoyable mode but the Spies vs Mercs and Single Player were also at a very high standard. Despite this there is one glitch in the Co-op's latter missions that disallows you to progress through the mission - it is very surprising the developers allowed the game to be released with such a major technical error. Nevertheless, a great game that gives a nice change from the typical shooter.
16 from the USA and 2 from Serbia, the rest are British.
How are you people finding me?!
Anyway, I picked up my camera and started shooting shiny fruit - because, you know, shiny fruit is always worth a photo.
Despite owning the DSLR camera for about a month now, I am only just starting to fully understand how to set the correct exposure. Taken indoors on manual mode the ISO was 2500. I don't own a tripod so a quick shutter speed was needed (1/80s) and I used a large aperture (f5.3) to let in the maximum light.
I heard that setting a high ISO should be avoidable due to the disadvantage that a higher ISO=more noise but I feel this photo looks sharp enough for my liking. I suppose if I wanted to zoom in on the image in post-production we might begin to see some of that noise.
In other news I handed back Splinter Cell Blacklist to Blockbuster after a week's rental. Brilliant game that is probably worthy of a buy rather than just a rental. Co-op was the most enjoyable mode but the Spies vs Mercs and Single Player were also at a very high standard. Despite this there is one glitch in the Co-op's latter missions that disallows you to progress through the mission - it is very surprising the developers allowed the game to be released with such a major technical error. Nevertheless, a great game that gives a nice change from the typical shooter.
Cuban Música!
Buena Vista Social Club - me gusta!
I found out about this 1 hour 40 minute documentary from travel magazine Wanderlust and what a discovery! Buena Vista Social Club interviews and records the musicians and music from the Cuban band of the same name.
The music featured is arguably some of the most beautiful and real music I have ever heard. A mixture of country, soul and jazz the experienced Cuban musicians, who play a wide variety of instruments, found International success in the late 1990's.
The wonderful Ibrahim Ferrer, the "Cuban Nat King Cole", was a highlight of the bands early days days and despite his sad passing in 2005 the band still tour worldwide with new and veteran members.
The documentary also features clips of Cuban street life that has just heightened my desire to visit the country even more.
Introducing Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo of the Buena Vista Social Club...
I found out about this 1 hour 40 minute documentary from travel magazine Wanderlust and what a discovery! Buena Vista Social Club interviews and records the musicians and music from the Cuban band of the same name.
The music featured is arguably some of the most beautiful and real music I have ever heard. A mixture of country, soul and jazz the experienced Cuban musicians, who play a wide variety of instruments, found International success in the late 1990's.
The wonderful Ibrahim Ferrer, the "Cuban Nat King Cole", was a highlight of the bands early days days and despite his sad passing in 2005 the band still tour worldwide with new and veteran members.
The documentary also features clips of Cuban street life that has just heightened my desire to visit the country even more.
Introducing Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo of the Buena Vista Social Club...
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