My Photography Thread

[Erin Loves Dwarf Hamsters]

Some of you know that I am a massive lover of photography and I want to get into the world of fashion photography sometime in the future as a career, so I thought I would share some of my favourite photos with you here they are mixed genre so photos of everything and anything. So far all of my photography skills have been self-taught, but after months of saving some point this year I will be starting my online university course in the subject which lasts 6 months to a year depending on how I do in each module and how my personal tutor thinks I am doing. I would like to have attended an actual university to study but because of personal and financial reasons it's just not something I will ever be able to do so I have spent a long time finding the best course available that results in uni-equivalent diplomas

My current camera is the Nikon D7000, it is my 4th camera and I love it so much but having only had it a few weeks I have yet to finish reading the instruction manual or fully understand what each button and menu does, I'm getting there though! So here are a few of my favourite photos and there will be plenty more to come, the quality should improve once I have mastered this camera so bare with me

These were taken around the village I live in -





These were taken at a Jubilee fayre yesterday, a local owl keeper brought his owls to show and had about 6 or 7 of them in an open gazebo -

[Willow's mummy!]

I love these, especially the owls - elder son came in & saw the first owl & asked if it were a cuddly toy! Did you clean up the background with editing or were they taken against the black background?

My parents are both keen competing members of their local camera club, & I find I am increasingly looking at photos with a more critical eye due to hearing their informed criticism of their own photos

I like the different angle for the poppies on the remembrance slate (I'm guessing that's what it is?), and the bleak loneliness of the monochrome trolley in the car park.

[Erin Loves Dwarf Hamsters]

The owls were actually in a dark green tent and it just happened that at the angle the sun hit them and the way my lens caught the light the background looked almost completely black, I did drag the levels down a mark or two in photoshop to make the owls stand out a little more though

Posting the photos here has made me spot the glow on the left side of the telephone box and it is really bugging me now, I used a smaller monitor when I edited it and I think I feathered the selection too much... time to send that one back to post-prod

I could spend hours criticizing my photos, I think once you really get into it it can be hard not to find something wrong but that is when you know you have found a truely perfect photo, when you can't say a thing about it

[Charley101]

Amazing Erin

[Willow's mummy!]

Lol, mum & dad have gone from taking snapshots of us all the time, through posing us - balanced family group to sing happy birthday to a grandchild, & now sigh & say the lights not quite right when we take snapshots! At least with digital cameras you can get instant results & tweak as needed to sharpen it up to the image in your head.

[Charley101]

I really love the red telephone box. Such an iconic image!

[suga]

Stunning photos Erin. Love the phone box and the trolley picture. Its amazing what you can do with a camera and how a picture can say so much.

[Poptart]

Wow these are amazing! I really want to be a photographer after i finish highschool (people and animals, but mainly animals haha) and so far im okay...no where close to you! Maybe im over critcal on myself.... but i really hope ill be as good as you

Those owls look beautiful, and the phone booth photos look so pretty. I love how the phone booth stands out in the frst one and how the red fades in the second

Good luck with the course!

(Really hoping this post doesnt come off as whiny and such, i dont intend for it to. My apologies if it does )

[gutterglitterxx]

Beautiful pictures! And beautiful owls.

[souffle]

They are lovely Erin.
Photos should make you feel something and somehow the phone box made me feel sad Almost like is had gone past it and like all the paint is peeling and windows broken and it is left behind by the advance of the mobiles - unwanted.
So there you are - it worked
The owls are lovely too.