Day 32 - 1st Feb 2010

Ok well there are going to be 2 images.

1 day 32, and 2, day 31 substitute as I missed my Australia week theme photo.


Day 32 - we were playing outside in the sandpit. For once the wind was blowing Kayla's hair out of her face not into her face. I got some great images. I really like this one. I had to crop it just a little as there was something distracting and it was taking it away from the image, but I still kept the portions.
I was really happy with the photo's I took. I was using manual mode, and I found that I had to over expose all the images by 1 stop for them to look good. Why? Because the light meter was reading the light in the background (was brighter), and not the foreground (this would be the umbrella of the sand pit). I did take a couple of images with the correct metering, but they were just all underexposed in the face.

Day 32 aka day 31 is the clothes line. Now why is this Australian? Because it is an aussie thing to have a Hills Hoist clothes line in the backyard. Ok so it's not the old school metal ones (they don't make them anymore :( but I does fit with the Australia week theme.



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for more info on the Hills Hoist click here

Day 30 - 30th Jan 2010

Well in my previous post I said that my work was crap. Still kinda is and I need to improve, so I will keep photographing.

Day 30's image is that of a pod. Of an aussie tree, don't ask what type cause I have no idea.

Not the best but fits with Australia week.

Day 29 - 29th Jan 2010

Went over to my MIL(Val) house she has a native garden. So lots of things to photograph. It was windy though, and I mean windy! So it was hard to hold the camera, focus and hold the subject to keep it still. I had to use my archery instincts and wait for the wind to die down. In hindsight I should have used my tripod. Stupid stupid stupid me! So the images that I thought were awesome worked out all yuck. Once I figured out my iso problem as well I noticed that when I would put the light metre on the right exposure, it would over exposure it. So I had to manually underexpose it so it didn't look washed out.
Overall this one ended being the best out of the bunch. I still had to sharpen it, Oh well I learned from my mistakes. Learned a lot that's for sure.

Kangaroo Paw


And a bonus one. It's an Australia native plant, but I can't remember the name of it.

I like it, but it's noisy, the iso was 1800. I had it set to 200, and I checked it, but it went to 1800. Needless to say I changed the iso off auto and left it at 200. I'm learning new things about my camera everyday, and my lens too for that matter.

Day 28 - 28th Jan 2010

Well today I made ANZAC cookies to go along with my Australia Week theme.

Now for those of you who live overseas you may be thinking 'What the hell is an ANZAC cookie'.

Well let me give you some background. ANZAC stands for 'Australia and NEW Zealand Army Corps', which was established in World War 1.

Loved ones of the ANZAC's wanted to send care packages, but being that things had to go via boat they didn't want things to spoil. So 'Anzac' cookies were created. They are made using rolled oats, flour, coconut (i don't put these in mine, but it is an option), sugar, butter, golden syrup, bicarbonate of soda and boiling water. Learn more here

There are a zillion recipes out there for anzac cookies. I got my recipe from my high school cook book (yes I still have it, the book is about 15 years old now!).

I will share the recipe later. So here is the image.
I used my light tent again with my macro lens. I love them both :D

Day 27 - 27th Jan 2010

What's more Australian than an Eucalyptus tree!

So that's what day 27 image is. Didn't have to walk far to find one (the primary school across the road, which we are there everyday has one).

Processed it as a HDR

Day 26 - 26th Jan 2010

Australia Day!

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

I've been thinking of all things Australian. I have lots of things in mind so I have been shooting lots of different things just in case some things don't work out.

I had finished shooting for the day, when I realised that the primary school across the road has an Australia flag. I thought well it's appropriate, so off I went and took a photo of it. It was a bit windy too (which is what you want with a flag). I only had to tag a few, and this is what I got.



Happy Australia Day all!

Day 25 - 25th Jan 2010

Was stuck for a theme this week, so I put it out there on facebook. My lovely dad suggested Australia Week. So I thought, what the hell. I have a list of things that I can photgraph, most of which I get to use my light tent, which I got to use for the 1st time today. I love it. I used it outside as it was so sunny I figured best to use natural light.

So here is today's image.



You're not Aussie if you don't have Vegemite in the pantry.