St. Michael's Mount

As I promised, a separate post for my day out in Penzance and onto St. Michael's Mount. Here I discovered how much I enjoyed taking aesthetically pleasing images, especially when on the mount itself looking back at the mainland.

I was thoroughly pleased with the weather on the day, which resulted in having beautiful sunshine with barely any clouds to be seen, which provided a look of something in the mediterranean rather than the south of Cornwall.

Here I shall provide just a small number of images as I managed to take a surprising number over the two days at the Eden Project and at St Michael's Mount. These images were also taken on my Canon 450D with the standard 18-55mm lens:

A Trip to the South

Around this time last year I spent a week in Newquay with my family and from here I travelled to both St. Michaels Mount in Penzance and the Eden Project near St. Austell for the opportunity to take some photographs.

I shall let St. Michaels Mount have its own post and here I shall upload a few of my images from the Eden Project:

I took these images on my Canon 450D with the standard 18-55mm lens which came with the camera and once again, I would have used the auto function on the camera or the preset functions that are available.

Here I discovered that I enjoyed taking macro images, which I soon learned is that the image taken is a close up of the object being photographed.

Considering I did only have my standard lens, I am quite pleased even now with the results I managed to get that day.

I am also glad that my camera came out working after we went into our first of the domes, which was the rainforest dome. ...warm, sticky and no breeze to cool down in. The lens fogged up when we first stepped in!



The First Images

After a busy weekend and a couple of days in college, I figure I should actually keep my word and start updating this blog...

Just over a year ago I bought my first digital SLR camera - a Canon 450D. A pretty standard and common model but it was recommended, cheaper and just what I needed to set me going in photography.

Having played around with my new 'toy' inside my home, I went down to the beach at sundown to start practicing my image taking. Admittedly then I took the shots using the Auto function - hey I hadnt had it long...

A First Time For Everything

Considering I work on both saturdays and sundays, this weekend isnt really the best to start a blog.. Especially now I got myself into working bank holiday monday too.... :/ However, I shall try to update as much as I can over this long weekend.

One thing I will ask is please be patient with me.. as the title suggests, this is the first blog I have created and so I may take a while to get used to what I am doing. (Basically, future apologies for any changes in layout, posts etc.)

For now I shall leave you with one of the images I included in my portfolio when applying for my course at Truro College. This was before I got my DigitalSLR so considering this was taken on a Fujifilm Finepix Z10fd (that one which came in many different colours) compact digital camera I am quite pleased with the results: