Monthly Archives: May 2012

Weekend photography tips: how to shoot in manual

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If you have a dslr camera and are shooting in auto this one is for you.  Listen to one woman's first steps to moving towards manual settings here.  Then pop over here to learn about that 'little line thingie' which is your light meter.   An explanation like this one was also the first thing that really clicked (no pun intended lol) for me when trying to get out the gate with manual exposure.  

Getting that little line centered won't guarantee you capture the image you envision creatively.  You need to really understand aperture and shutter speed for that.  But it will help you get a technically correct exposure from which you can begin to experiment. It is that all-important first concept upon which everything else rests.  Start with that little line thingie. <g> 

 

more links:

Camera Simulator app

Understanding Exposure

Beyond Snapshots

First look at Cambridge

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This makes my inaugural England post from our whirlwind house hunting trip.  Such a jam packed visit that the only tourist pictures I got were from the car.  Since there are a remarkable number of roundabouts in that fine country and since driving on the other side of the road in traffic made things just a smidge confusing at first, I had lots of opportunities to get up my shots as we circled the college area moving ever closer to the exit each round lol. 

April was quite a month let me tell you.  Catching my breath just a bit this week as we enter round two here in May.  Lots of challenges converging simultaneously, the sort which tend to make one's hands wring and feet pace.  What to do? What to do?

 I listen to my gypsy friend who reminds me  - just do the next thing.  

I hope you have a friend like that.  I hope you too remember to just do the next thing when the water gets choppy.   And maybe take a few pictures too.  I think it helps <g>

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perfect drudgery…. not

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"We housewives often in the course of our work come up to bare unwitting prospects and we exclaim, “Oh, it’s perfect drudgery!” But stay, come round this way, view your work from another standpoint. Ah, what a change! Heavens light is upon it; sacred memories arise, glad songs are heard and we trace where high art has been at work. Best of all, our work need not be likened to a ruin, but a place filled with happy human souls. Don’t have one-sided views of your work, view it all round. Have a truly high idea of  your work, and you will never commit the great mistake of thinking it drudgery."

By Charlotte Skinner,  The Housewife, 1886.

Do visit Brocante Home for the entire essay!