moving over to flickr

I've decided to stop blogging here and move over to

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caradunn/

much better! \o/

Reflections Study - Bathwater with Ducky

Date: 07.007.09 11:49 Shutter speed: 1/125 Exposure program: Manual
F-stop: f/5.6 Aperture value: f/5.4 ISO speed ratings: 400 Focal Length: 49mm

I've been meaning to take this shot a while now. Our bath jutts up to our window and the ducky family always sits on the window sill... (Their cute to have in the bathroom, but 30 somethings shouldn't actually bath with them right?) The light from the window reflects the ducks onto the water and I thought it would work on its own, but I thought it needed one of the duck in the water... I love the little ripples he's made, it really helped the shot I think.

Reflections Study - Alley Walkers

Date: 07.007.09 15:07 Shutter speed: 1/50 Exposure program: Shutter priority
F-stop: f/5 Aperture value: f/4.9 ISO speed ratings: 100 Focal Length: 41mm




Reflections Study - Street Puddle - Upside down

Date: 07.007.09 17:30 Shutter speed: 1/13 Exposure program: Shutter priority
F-stop: f/16 Aperture value: f/5.6 ISO speed ratings: 100 Focal Length: 55mm

One of my favorite alley/streets in London, its a tiny alley just off Leicester Square with a few antique bookstores and a medium who reads tarot cards in the window, when its been raining it always has a huge puddle that reflects the buildings and a lamp post quiet well. I still have no idea what I'm doing settings wise :-( Must read a book or sommat! The second shot is upside down, awesome fun taking this one, it was bucketing down with thunder and lightning I've only seen twice before in London, and I had my trusted Birkenstocks on again :D I ran back to the ally when it was raining hard and waited round the corner for a break in the rain.

Reflections Study - Mooring Tower

Date: 29.06.09 14:51 Shutter speed: 1/640 Exposure program: Aperture priority
F-stop: f/6.3 Aperture value: f/6.3 ISO speed ratings: 200 Focal Length: 55mm

Drab drab drab! I don't really like this kind of shot. Perhaps if I had wellies I would have had more fun up close and personal with the big smelly mooring tower. As it was I had my white birkenstocks on and wasn't going near the Thames low tide muck in them. I've tried to add a bit of 'drama' with a 50% Gaussian blur overlay. Not sure its doing anything for or against it. Will go back and visit smelly tower at a better time of day me thinks.

Reflections Study - Truck Windscreen

Date: 29.06.09 17:59 Shutter speed: 1/1600 Exposure program: Manual
F-stop: f/4.5 Aperture value: f/4.4 ISO speed ratings: 800 (doh!?) Focal Length: 34mm

The focus was off here. Is it me or is it hard getting the reflection in focus? I tried for a short while and this is the best of the lot. I took this because I like the difference in sky behind the truck and what it was reflecting in the window.

Reflections Study - Mini Side View Mirror

Date: 29.06.09 14:37 Shutter speed: 1/250 Exposure program: Shutter priority
F-stop: f/5.6 Aperture value: f/5.6 ISO speed ratings: 320 Focal Length: 55mm

Tungsten lighting worked quiet well outside here. The car was all shiny blue so I think it added a nice metallic effect to the shot. Damn those rain drops! I regret not having a cloth to wipe some random persons side view mirror down. Can I do that? O.O

Reflections photography study

Right! So I have a brand new camera.

A Canon EOS 450D. Its light and comfy and came with a pretty decent lens.
Today was my first day out with it. (It wasn't a very long day as London is actually having some weird thing called a heat wave and I didn't understand it and started panicing and ran back home!)

But I got three shots in all that I've started my reflections study on.