Playing with the panorama function on my phone’s camera…
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Almost Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Fun, Gadgets, Nature, Photography, tagged iPhone5, Kentucky, Nature, Panorama, Photography, Spring on May 21, 2014| 2 Comments »
Almost Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Fun, Gadgets, Home, Photography, tagged fisheye, iPhone, macro, Nature, Olloclip, Photography, wideangle on September 25, 2013|
More Olloclip fun:
Chestnut tree through a fish-eye:
Wide-angle hay:
Macro love:
I did absolutely no editing on this one. The sun was just at a perfect point.
Almost Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Fun, Gadgets, Home, Photography, tagged iPhone, macro, Nature, Olloclip, Photography on August 28, 2013|
Almost Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Fun, Gadgets, Photography, tagged fisheye, iPhone, macro, Olloclip, Photography, wideangle, Wordless Wednesday on August 21, 2013|
Playing with my new toy…an Olloclip iPhone lens.
Regular photo:
Wide angle lens:
Fish eye lens:
And my favorite, the macro lens: 
Thoughtful Thursday-Favorite Things Edition
Posted in Gadgets, My Thoughts, tagged Canon EOS Rebel, Digital SLR, Helene Dujardin, Plate to Pixel, Thoughtful Thursday on January 19, 2012|
Up until the last few weeks, all of the photos on this blog were shot with a super-zoom compact Sony H7. C and I have had this camera for about four years or so and were really pleased with it. It was simple to use, but it also had a lot of different options if you didn’t want to shoot on automatic.
C & I are both photography fans and he has been wanting to buy us an digital SLR for a year or two, but I was too cheap to do it. Well, I finally gave in and we bought one as our joint Christmas present because C told me he was going to buy it for me if we didn’t buy it together. He can be stubborn like that! 🙂 So during Thanksgiving weekend, we ordered a Canon EOS Rebel T3i with a 18-135mm lens from Amazon while it was very much on sale.
Wow is all I can say! WOW! This is one awesome and complicated camera! My mom and dad had a film SLR when I was growing up and I remember trying my hand at photography back then. I would try to shoot “artistic” shots of flowers and my Cabbage Patch dolls. Then I would use my allowance to have them developed. Isn’t that funny? Several times there was a finger or even a toe or two if I was shooting down in the pictures, but I was hooked.
This is not something you take out of the box, turn on, and then start shooting beautiful, gorgeous shots. Nope, there is definitely a learning curve involved in this. Thankfully, another Christmas present I received will hopefully help with that. I had been wanting to improve my food photography for a while even before we decided to upgrade our camera so I asked my in-laws for the book “Plate to Pixel” by Helene Dujardin. I have just started it, but in the few pages that I have read there is a lot of information. Ms. Dujardin’s shots are so pretty and I hope to be able to duplicate some of the beauty with practice. She has done seminars at The Pioneer Woman’s ranch and I wish she would do one around Kentucky because I would love to have more instruction.
So bear with me, folks. The photos on here might get worse before they get better, but I am trying my best to learn the ins and outs of our new favorite toy!
Picture Perfect Cooking 