some thumbnails of my illustrations

some thumbnails of my illustrations
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Monday 21 June 2010

A lovely new toy!


I've been playing with my fantastic new camera - a gift from Tony, my lovely, lovely other half, who managed to scrape the money together from what was left over after trading in 3 guitars to finally get his beloved Les Paul...! ( A long awaited love!)
I've been so frustrated for so long by my pathetic little 3px camera, and missing my tempremental old 35mm that I loved years ago...









These were just taken on auto with the macro setting just to try and get the hang of the camera - I need to read the hugely complex advanced guide so I can work out how to use the manual settings, but I'm so impressed just as it is! I think I'm going to have a lot of fun!

6 comments:

  1. Great Pics, Carrie. What brand of camera did you get?
    Cenya

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  2. mmmm - FUN! My camera doesn't have macro, would have loved that, but its amazing still what I can do with it as long as I can hold my hand steady. I bet you're going to LOVE yours. Happy shooting.

    And happy solstice!

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  3. How exciting, your images will no doubt be great reference material for your artwork. Next you will be getting to grips with Photoshop, or maybe you are already a whiz?

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  4. Hi folks!
    Cenya, it is a... (had to go and look)Canon powershot S5IS 8.0 mega px!
    And I doubt it Valerie! I'm not great at photoshop, haven't got the patience or the skill! I just use it for cropping and adjusting brightness/contrast and image size, I think I'll be sticking to brushes and paper!
    And yes of course - Happy Solstice indeed! What perfect midsummer weather too... We've been working so long and late we've hardly seen it unfortunately... Time and season turn inexorably!
    Carrie... :-)

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  5. I love your photos very much!

    The green-in-green-photo is great!

    Have a wonderful day and a very nice weekend!

    Greetings from Germany,
    Katrin

    P.S.:
    I love photography in the nature too!
    And I have added a small photo with a rotted trunk and a clover sheet inside on my blog - maybe you would like to come over for a short visit ... ?! :-)

    All the best,
    and a great day!

    Katrin

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  6. Congrats on the new camera--they're such great fun--and congrats as well on having such a beautiful place to photograph!

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