New love?

Today I recieved my Nikon D7000 , an upgrade from my Canon 600d , and already I love it. It felt so natural in the hand and as my bridge camera back from 2012 was a Nikon, when I was first getting into photography , well it just seems that it's meant to be. I'm destined to be a Nikon user. At least in the digital world. I took a few test shots outside using the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX and it was so nice to use. 

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-Ella-

Instant Photography Project , Photo 3

I took this photograph in my nans garden , two reasons I mainly took this is because I had already tried photographing flowers with this camera (for the project) and they hadn't turned out because the camera is a fix focus camera so it stays at the same focal length all the time and so when I tried to get close ups of flowers it was a lot harder than I expected...so I instantly thought to shoot these, I shot them because when I see these flowers I relate them instantly to my grandparents because of them being in their front garden , so it has a little sentimental value behind the photo too.

I also really like how vibrant the purples are against the green leaves and the colours compliment each other perfectly so I thought it would make a great addition to my project.

-Ella-

Red & a Daisy

Following on from my last post and reflecting on some of my flower & nature shots has really rekindled my love for that particular subject matter. I have always liked to experiment with photographic genre, I've never really stayed focus on one thing for too long which I'm quite glad about because it's really encouraged me to step out of any forming comfort zones and I think that in itself has the possibilities to develop more skills within the medium.

I have also started to use lightroom again as my main editing software which I forgot how much I adored using!

(still on the hunt for the second roll of film)

-Ella-

Nature shots

Gutted. I've lost my 2nd roll of film which was ready to be processed! you know you're a photographer when you can't settle because you've lost a roll of film. ahh. So in the meantime I've loaded my om10 with a black & white film (only 12 exposures this time just whilst I find my other one) hopefully it won't be too long before it turns up.

Anyway here's some nature shots.

-Ella-

Light & Time

Light & Time , what a perfectly titled project now that it's Autumn!.

 My favourite thing about this time of the year is the light (especially when it's highlighting all of the beautiful coloured leaves that quickly surround us). It's my favourite time of year to photograph so here are some of my image's from this exciting new project.

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You might be thinking that these photograph's are all a bit 'mismatched' and you'd be right in thinking so. My first shoot for this project I decided to photograph various things that relate to both or either Light & Time and that may be the only link between the different photographs but that's the only link they really need. 

Photograph 1:

An image of my hand with a stroke of light. In this image my hand represents the element of time. With time my hand will age.

Photograph 2: 

Time being Autumn in this case, the leaf has fallen because its that 'time' of the year. Taken on the window shelf directly facing the light.

Photograph 3:

An image of an instant photograph capturing a moment of light 'in an instant'.

-Ella-

Deadly Delicate

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I thought I would share with you one of my favourite images of mine. I took this back in July and I also have it in black and white which too is very lovely. I'm not quite sure if its a moth or not however I found it in the house by the door and before laying it to rest in a plant pot I decided to take a quick close up shot, I was amazed at the detailing in its tiny body. How can something so small be so wonderfully detailed and beautiful? we see these creatures and many like it so often that we usually don't pay attention to its real beauty but when you stop to admire little things like this the world around suddenly becomes so much more interesting. 

-Ella-

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Same subject, different mood

Hey! so this is my second post on this blog. I'm totally up for people leaving comments or messaging me about what they would like to see on this blog? I could do an equipment review of my cameras or maybe talk about some of my polaroid/instax photographs from one of my favourite projects I did before summer? just anything you'd like to see really.


I'm conscious about writing too much in these posts obviously because I want to avoid boredom! So i'll keep them as short and sweet as possible without leaving too much out.

Here are two recent photograph's of mine, both of which taken of the same flower in the same location however one is clearly black and white and the other with colour. I decided to post these to show the difference editing , composition and props can have even when using the same subject matter.

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So as you can see, both images are of the same flower which is the main focus point however the editing was different as well as the camera angle which in itself can completely change an image. 

I'm a big fan of black and white photography so I thought to incorporate it more into my own images, I think black and white enhances the mood within the photo where as colour can sometimes be distracting from the message or emotion you may be trying to put across with your imagery. Often I think black and white can show more detail in the image too, which I believe is the case above.

-Ella-

“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.”- Vikram