From the monthly archives:

February 2008

TPB Monthly Round Up #2

by Mandy February 29, 2008

It’s time for TPB (The Photographer Blog) monthly round up, I can’t believe it’s the end of the month already.
This month I have enjoyed exploring other photographers sites, here are three of my favorites:
Natalie Norton Photos, I first read a guest post that Natalie had done on the Digital Photography School blog. I like her [...]

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Looking at Size and Quality Settings

by Mandy February 27, 2008

Have you ever wondered why every time you transfer a photo to your computer it is so large. And wondered why, I know I have. Is it a camera setting or the photo editing software that you are using?
Size Setting
But then I noticed I have a size setting on my camera, in other words setting [...]

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Image of the Week #10

by Mandy February 25, 2008

This week in image of the week:
This is a photo I took recently near to where I live, the sun was just setting. Shooting into the sun has silhouetted the scene nicely and I used the grass in the front of the picture to give some depth to it.
It wasn’t a planned photo I was [...]

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Do You Have a Flickr Account?

by Mandy February 22, 2008

I have to admit I didn’t know anything about Flickr until very recently. The first thing I learned was that it is part of the Yahoo Group, and I learned that when I heard about Microsoft putting a bid in for Yahoo.
So why am I interested now?
Well it’s not because Microsoft may be taking [...]

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Project 365

by Mandy February 20, 2008

Could you take a photo a day for a whole year?
I have recently read on Photojojo about this Project 365 – take a photo a day for a year. It was originally started by Taylor McKnight back in 2004 and he has recently done it for a second time. Photojojo are encouraging everyone to [...]

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Image of the Week #9

by Mandy February 18, 2008

This week in image of the week:
I seem to get onto to a topic and then get stuck on it! I have another gate this week, but a very different one from last week.
This is an old Church gate, actually one of the gates to get into Birkenhead Priory one of the oldest buildings on [...]

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My Digital Camera ISO Experiment

by Mandy February 15, 2008

Following on from Wednesdays post about digital camera ISO I thought it would be good to stop talking about it and give it a go.
So I did, but seeing as I didn’t have any low light shooting opportunities coming up I decided to use my mouse as a substitute.

The photograph on the top is taken [...]

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What is Digital Camera ISO?

by Mandy February 13, 2008

Back in the old days when I had a film camera, ISO was to do with the film and it’s speed. I generally used ISO 100, 200 and 400, for bright conditions, cloudy conditions and all round conditions respectively.
It’s a little different with digital camera ISO
What is digital camera ISO?
Digital ISO gives an indication [...]

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Image of the Week #8

by Mandy February 11, 2008

This week in image of the week:
This is one of the first photographs I took on my digital camera, using a mini tripod resting on a low wall and using 2x digital zoom.
What attracted me was the old wooden gate that seemed to be disappearing into the green foliage around it. I like gates and [...]

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Camera Colour Features v’s Photoshop

by Mandy February 6, 2008

My camera has an option to change the colour settings of the camera to full colour, black & white or sepia. So I went out to give them a try as I have’nt used them before. These three photographs are the result. It was a dull day and it was raining so I picked a [...]

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