Subject of the Day: Juanita Flora - Daisies

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Taking my new lens that I absconded with on late Friday night, I wandered around with my wife and took photos while taking the dogs for a walk.

This 85MM 1.8f canon lens gave me a new appreciation for prime lenses as well as some killer clarity on the photos themselves.

I continue to use the manual settings in finding the right exposure. I only had to throw away a few frames this last time.

One new thing I did learn was the power of shooting in RAW, but I am still torn on whether to continue to use this format. The basic editor on the Photoshop Elements software I have does not really have a lot in support of RAW, but I will keep fiddling around with it.

Subject of the day: Park benches

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Sitting lonely all on its own.

After reading just a small portion of the book, "Understanding exposure", I ventured in to using the manual settings on my camera. While I do not fully understand how it all interlaces just yet (I fell asleep last night reading), I was able to pick up a few critical things to make the exposure of my photos appear to come out correctly.

As simple as it sounds, watching the exposure and light associated was as simple as watching for bracketing in the view finder. As I shifted the dial, I was able to see the immediate result on the exposure. Now to just learn how to keep a steady hand for those just long enough exposures.

I am going to keep playing around and finding out what to do next.

Subject of the day: Mailboxes - As mail does arrive

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In an effort to continuously improve my photography, I will be doing my best to take photographs every day and look for new ways to improve my basic understanding of the attributes of my camera.

If you have ideas of the types of subjects that would be interesting to you, I would be happy to focus on on subjects as I read them.

Continuous light and a bit of the sky line

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I went off in the middle of the night and checked out if I could make the cool effect happen by working with long exposure times. I took the instructions that I had from the fireworks display and played around with settings. This was the first foray in the some night shoots.

Day at the park with a good friend!

Yet another day at the park

Another day at the park