#1day12pics - February

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On Saturday eldest and I should have been doing a Long Exposures workshop but rain, thick cloud and generally miserable weather stopped play. As it was the first Saturday of the month it meant #1day12pics had to be done from home.

Let there be Light!

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Part three of my photography course "A Year with my Camera" started this week and we're now talking about light. This weeks homework was to take several photos of the same object with the light source coming from different directions.

#1day12pics December

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#1day12pics takes place on the first Saturday of the month, so yesterday I chose to photograph all the plants still flowering in the garden. Friday night we had a really hard frost but yesterday was quite mild...the garden is more springlike than winter at the moment.

Composition - graphic principles

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Week 3 of composition at A Year with my Camera and this week we've been learning how to incorporate composition principles borrowed from graphic designers...whilst trying to remember and put to good use all that we have learned so far.

Single Focal Point

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Week 2 of Composition and it was all about critical subject placement, homework project was "A Single Focal Point".

Photo Books

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(Blogger is being a pain and not uploading any images at the minute so here's some writing!)

"Done is better than perfect"

Composition and Viewpoint

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We've moved from the technical side of photography to some of the fun stuff for the second part of A Year with My Camera and this week's homework was all about composition.

#1day12pics November

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#1day12pics takes place on the first Saturday of each month. This month I documented my day in pictures.

Part 1 Projects

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Two further projects to consolidate part one of A Year with my Camera.

Black and White Challenge 2017

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Emma has been hosting a Black and White challenge at A Year with my Camera this week, with a different prompt each day. I enjoyed taking part.

8 Autumn Photos to Shoot this Month

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Emma at A Year with my Camera set the above challenge at the beginning of this month. I love the colours of Autumn and my camera generally goes into autodrive at this time of year.

Consolidating

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Home work for this week was to consolidate all which we had learned to date and practise our new found skills. These prompts appear in the book "A Year with my Camera" part one, which I have bought my son for Christmas!

Promises, Promises!

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A Year with my Camera promised to get me off auto in six weeks...a bold claim to someone who had no clue about the workings of a camera! At three-four weeks in I still didn't think it was possible...but here I am at six weeks and my camera has been on manual most of the week!!

I even have some photos to show for it too:)

Metering

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Metering was the subject of last weeks email from Emma at A Year with my Camera. I took one look at the title and thought urrrgggh this sounds complicated!!

F-stops, Shutter Speed and ISO....

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Numbers, numbers and more numbers....all set to confuse you!

#1day12pics October

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Loving this idea of taking 12 pictures in one day....the first Saturday of the month. This month was my first time taking part. I choose to take a leisurely walk around the garden with my camera and my iPhone to get these pictures.

#Make 30 Photos

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#Make 30 Photos was set as a precursor to "A Year with my Camera". It was a fun way to get to know the other participants on the course and explore aspects of photography which may have felt out of your comfort zone. The prompts also made you think out of the box...there were no right or wrong interpretations. These are my 30: