Recent content by CarolF

Looking to get back in shooting now following knee major surgery 4 1/2 years ago. At my 1 year follow up, my consultant told me he was pleased with progress and I could do what I wanted . . . 6 weeks later I conceived our twins! Bit of a rocky pregnancy resulting in the near loss of one, and me...

I copped out on this one really. It's a case of grab 3 things, set-up and shoot. A trio of things to do too!

This one only came to me last week. I'd had a daffodil snap off in the garden and it's been sat indoors for a week or so. Having soaked up all the water it could, it has effectively finished its life.

I've been trying to think on this one for a while, but with not much luck. Whilst doing some tidying up around the house, I came across some old tacks and the rest, they say, is history. My idea on this was that the tacks are order, but the odd one out provides chaos to an otherwise ordered shot.

Thanks Ray. I am still around (somewhere)! Must get my butt in gear and pick this up again. I have a few weeks still on the camera to process so hopefully I'll find the 'round tuit' soon.

Am soooo falling behind now! I was hoping to make more of the feather in this shot as it's one of the few we have from our budgie. Life's pretty quiet without her, but we are slowly moving forward. I do swear I hear her playing with her mirror or swing every now and then though - maybe we have a...

I'm mega allergic to coffee - Mick Jagger lips and swollen throat kind of stuff. Just the smell of 'proper' coffee for too long makes me bigtime vomit - I've learnt to hold my breath and breathe through my mouth (which unfortunatley dries out the through and it starts to swell). It probably...

I really struggled with this one. It would be easy to open door of wardrobe, spare room, garage, cupboard etc and take a quick snap, but I wanted to put some thought into it. Another macro-type shot this week of sugared almonds. I need to put some more thought into my shots and hope I can get a...

Thanks for all your comments. I've fallen a bit behind which I didn't want to do . . . it's the start of a slippery slope to failing completely and with week 8 now out in the open I've got some serious catching up to do.

I tried a few things with this, but I think I need to try and get my head around some theory before I go much further with the macro capability of my 70-300. This is my reshoot at ISO400 at f11, focal length-180mm, 2.5 sec exposure. I also tried a 30 second exposure at f36 to see how noisy it...

Thanks for the comments. The more I look at this, the worse I think it is! The dof has been bugging me, so I've been having a play to see if I can do any better . . .

Sorry Paul, I didn't mean it to come across like that, please accept my apologies. Full EXIF is f/11, 8sec exposure, focal length 238mm, no flash, ISO 800 I'm just off to see if I can do any better.

EXIF says ISO 800

Another macro shot from me this week! :lol: I had a number of ideas for this, but settled on Hard Drive. It had been dropped anyway, so I kept it with the idea of taking it apart and shooting it to death. I could possibly have got more of the drive in focus, so if I get time I may reshoot this.

Thanks Dawn, I'm still struggling to get into the swing of things so to speak, but hopefully the more I perservere, the easier it will get. Thanks ladies! My open book was more of a 'filler' as I really wanted to get further than last year's dismal performance, so I'm reasonable happy with...