Thursday, May 6, 2010

Shiny


I must admit, I've gone a bit head-over-heels for this photography thing lately. I promise I will get back to sketches soon, but in the meantime you can head on over to my flickr page and check out my latest photos.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Butterflies

Why hello dear blog! Sadly I have no new drawings to show, but I did recently purchase a Canon T1i digital SLR which is FAB and I positively drool over it whenever I take it out of the bag. So here are some of the first photos I took with it last weekend.
Jason and I went to a butterfly sanctuary out in Chelmsford and took photos for a friend. I busied myself trying to capture butterflies and tried to focus on getting good color shots. The lens I was using was good for closeups, but I would prefer something with a slightly bigger depth of field as most of my shots came out too blurry - with the focus of the picture on the leaf IN FRONT of the butterfly I was trying to photograph. >.<;





Now, I really wish I'd gotten a better shot of this one, as the pink behind the butterfly (which was someone's shirt) really nicely contrasted the butterfly itself (which was also moving).
Here are a couple non-butterfly photos. I found a house that had these great lion statues outside their front porch. So I made them black and white and went for that aged look. Could probably look better in Lightroom than Photoshop.