Almost Winter

September

Truly Spring!

Hi everyone,
I hope you had/are having a wonderful easter weekend. It is beautiful here. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, and the sun is shining.
I am sitting on my back step eating coffee Haagen Dazs and watching the cats prowl through the garden.

My Morning Walk

Just a few shots from my route to school.

Sunrise

I dislike having to wake up when it's still dark out but getting to see this almost makes up for it.

Peekaboo

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!! Thanks to everyone who has frequented this blog. There will be much more to come in the new year.

Local Tourist Assignment

This assignment was to choose something or somewhere we walk by everyday and don't normally notice, and explore it with our camera. We were to make a series of three postcards and write a note on the back of one of them.

I struggled with this assignment because my whole roll of film turned out overexposed. I did what I could to save some of the shots but I would have liked to be able to pick three completely different shots rather than two being very similar.

Oh, and there is a shoe in the second one, it's hard to see in the scan.

Cat Portraits

I've just been playing around with my camera. I am constantly amazed at the shots that I wouldn't even have tried before because I know my old camera couldn't do them and yet they work perfectly with this one. Particularly low light shots.

A New Camera!

Well, I probably don't have to say how excited I am.

So many options and settings and whatnot.

I'll be sad to say goodbye to my old camera, though. I have had it for so long. But it will be in good hands with my mum.

It will be different not being able to just throw my camera in my pocket. I guess I will get used to having it hanging around my neck.

I really struggled with the decision of which one to buy. My last camera was a Canon and I suppose I was feeling some loyalty. It came down to how they felt in my hands. The Nikon just felt sturdier.

So I guess you'll be seeing better quality pictures on here from now on.

Tea

Public Gardens

Cameras

In photography we learnt how to use the Mamiya which is a medium format camera. It shoots large square negatives and there are only twelve shots to a roll. It doesn't have a built in light meter so we have to use a separate one.

You see the image by looking down into the hood.

This is what it looks like with the hood up and the bellows all the way out.

I am glad to have the chance to learn how to use this camera but I don't think I will switch to using it for all the assignments. It simply takes too long to set up a shot when you have to figure out the light meter and then you only have twelve shots to play around with.
So I am still using the Pentax as well. This is the lens I have on it right now.

Well, it's a sunny day. I should get dressed and go take some photos because I need to develop and print two rolls by thursday.

The Darkroom

I took these sneaky pics in the darkroom at school. I could only do it because I was alone in there. You aren't allowed to have anything that casts a light.

This is really hard to see but it is an enlarger that you use for printing.