1. Ransoms (Wild Garlic)
2. Nikon D700, 14-24 f2.8 & Tripod
The only way I am going to get better is by using my Equipment. As well as developing some form of eye for framing an image it will help improve my technique. Once I have captured something on the memory card I can then start to adapt it using Apature, Capture NX or Photoshop CS4 and then see what happens when it gets printed out.
Then I need to find somewhere to talk with people who can tell me how I'm doing. As well as online I have started to test the water with local camera clubs and also chat to a few professionals. The problem is that from the outside I am seen as Faustian which means that in person people don't say much and online comment is limited to I like that or don't like that.
Yesterday I spent 90 minutes looking for the above ditch and then standing in/over it to get a few pictures of Ransoms (wild garlic) see the bottom image above. This was my second expedition to find the wild flowers in the past week as they offer a different challenge to my recent pictures of Bluebells. The results is the image at the top which I am now trying to tune using one of the three editing packages. Once I am happy with what I have produced I guess I can start entering the outcome into competitions to judge my progress. However the feedback is only positive in that you get no feedback. Sending the image to one of the many photography magazines for criticism has as much chance as me winning the Lottery this week so that I can buy more lenses.
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