26 January 2016

A Year With My Camera {DSLR - Aperture}

At the beginning of the month I made a 40 things to do before 40 list with no.32 being; use my DSLR properly. My blogging friend, Ali, promptly sent me in the direction of A Year With My Camera on Emma Davies' photography blog. Having received Emma's weekly emails and lurked a bit on the Facebook group, trying not to feel overwhelmed by some of the photography on there, I thought I had better get on with it!

I got my DSLR back in September 2014 and played around with it straight away but clearly did not know what I was doing. I googled a bit and found some tutorials and fiddled with the settings but never had much structure in my self teaching. Hopefully, with Emma's workshops, I will now get to know my DSLR much better and actually have some understanding about how it works.

This week the focus was on aperture; a setting I have used before as I love getting those 'blurry in the background' images - I know that's not technical speak but you know exactly what I mean! Ideally I wanted a bright sunny day for this but the weather wasn't playing ball so I made do with what I had. I had a go outdoors taking photos on the highest and lowest aperture settings at that given time.

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