Confident about mono

I am feeling more confident about my mono work and my landscapes. I think one thing that I can then do would be to sell mono landscapes. Hopefully they could sell as posters, cards and postcards.

I got an amusing shot of my son the other day. He found a scrap of material and he put it over his head. It reminded me of a picture of Lady GaGa I saw not too long ago.

Got some old pictures

Now that my partners computer is not working there is a spare monitor. I was then albe to put the laptop into his monitor. I can now access the stuff that is on the laptop.

It is always interesting looking at old photographs. It is a good way to see where I have improved and see what I did right then. Or maybe to remind me of something that I did then that I no longer do now and that I could start doing again.

It was also reminding me of a time when I did not use RAW. I could not imagine every using JPEG again as I think RAW is awesome but there was a time when I did not know about it. I need to find out how to edit JPEG files so I can also make the most of those pictures as I have found some nice pictures that I took.

It is also nice looking back at the spring and summer months and all the pictures of sunny days and flowers. Sometimes it feels when you are in those months that you have not had much of a spring/summer until you look back on all of the pictures and realize just how many days that we did have.

I wonder what I will have learned by the time next years flowers have some through.

Here is a picture of a Buttercup that I took in May:

Getting organized

I have started getting all of my magazines and stuff that I got from the photography course organized.

I have got most of the magazines in one place and I have got a folder to put the stuff in.

My son was not well a few weeks ago. I got a phone call to go and collect him from school. He lay on the couch and I wrapped him up in a sleeping bag. It was not too long before he fell asleep. He only falls asleep during the day when he is ill.

putting my college stuff together

I have decided that now that my college course has ended that I need to get all of my college work and put them together in a folder.

I have found one bit, so tonight I will be off to search for the rest of the stuff that I was given.

When I was at college on Tuesday I applied to get an ILA (individual learning account) the pack arrived today so I must make sure that I will it out so that I can get the next photography course paid for.

This was a shot that I took of the sunlight coming through the trees:

 

Sleeping beauty

Ok so I am biased but I managed to edited another picture tonight before I go to bed.

Learning to stop being so harsh

Last night was the last night of my photography course. I got a certificate as well.

I learned about layers.

I also learned that I need to stop being so harsh on myself. It really does not matter that others understood quicker how to get the sky transfer before I did. I did it in the end and that is what is most important.

I will be going on the advanced photography course in January. I think it would be good for me to get one it. I would also like to take a Photoshop course to help me with the editing.

I think I will have to look at the Photoshop book tonight once the younglings have gone to bed.

My confidence is beginning to return though. I am beginning to believe that I can become a professional photographer. I am still not sure what I will be doing but I just know that there is something out there that I can do.

I have also started thinking about outdoor portrait photography. I am not sure about children's photography at the moment but I think I will leave an open mind so that I start off doing something with a view of developing the skills at a later point.

I got this shot of the moon tonight. It is a lovely full moon. I am looking forward to getting a bigger lens so that I will not have to crop in so much. I am much happier with the shots that I have been getting. At least I have been able to capture the detail.

I got this shot of the younglings while we were walking to nursery and school. I always like seeing them walking along holding hands and I cannot resist taking shots of them doing so. It is also good experience at taking low light shots.

 

This is a shot that I got of the sun rising this morning. I am going to learn how to make a good job of cloning the line out of it.

 

The frost is here

Today is the first frost that I have seen this Autumn/Winter.

I love taking pictures of frosty mornings as it looks so beautiful.

Yesterday there was a full moon. I thought it looked so fu when I had collected my eldest from school.

 

 

 As we are getting closer to the shorted day the days are a lot shorter. I was able to catch a funky sunset last night as I was walking home from collecting my eldest from school.