Must try harder!

Just spent a very hard working week in Yorkshire on a workshop with Guy Edwardes, Sheila and Gareth.  The weather was fairly kind to us - with only one morning when it rained, and then we "played" with out computers.  More images from the week will follow when I have time to process them.

In the meantime, I realised I don't use my camera enough.  The controls aren't instinctive.  So - to try to address this problem, I hope to go out every day and take photos, if only to reinforce what we learned this last week.

To start with - here are some bluebell shots I took yesterday, and processed today.  

The first in this series.  Taken at about 8.00pm on the last night of the workshop.  The exercise was to maximise depth of field.  The idea is to have everything sharp, from front to back.  Now to try to do this myself, without help!!

The above two pictures were taken at the same location on the same evening.  No help to get the depth of field right!
The bottom image was taken at about 9.00pm - which explains the darker tones.

Taken back in Devon on Sunday.  Not a world-shattering image - but trying the hyperfocal technique I learned, and putting it into practice before I forgot how to do it!!

Something different!  Tried my hand at focus stacking.  Using my macro lens, I hunted around for a good bluebell flower, then proceeded to focus on different parts of the flower heads.  Back at home, I then processed seven images, gradually building a final image with front-to-back sharp focus on all the flowers.

Assuming you're sick and tired of bluebell snaps - here's something different!  Thanks to Gareth, on the workshop, who inspired us to have a go at this!  Wide angle lens, and looking up at the trees in the bluebell woods!  We had great fun for quite some time!!