Scroll down to have a look :) Any comments for tips and advice on the pictures I've taken would be great.
Sunday 29 September 2013
A week away in the Sun
Lyndon (my partner) and I booked our holiday to Kos back in January so we've been waiting a long time for it, but I hadn't bought my Nikon DSLR back then. Since my purchase back in June, I've been keen to capture new and different things, so our holiday to Kos (as well as intending on being a relaxing one) felt like a great opportunity to capture some images I can't necessarily in the UK. These last few weeks prior to going, have had me really excited about what I might see. The holiday didn't start so relaxing when I realised I'd forgotten all my bikinis, and bruised the bridge of my nose after swimming into a step on the first day.. But after that we had a fantastic time; trying the local Gyros and kleftiko, getting lost wandering through the streets of Kos Town, and we also managed a day trip to Turkey. You can actually see it from Kos as it's only 11miles away! When we found out one of the Seven Wonders of the World was in Bodrum, I had to go get some snaps. I guess that means I'll have to go see the others now! I'm not usually your stereotypical tourist who loves all the cultural sites and views but I also had to get some of the amazing sunset from our balcony, alongside a few of the harbour and more.
Scroll down to have a look :) Any comments for tips and advice on the pictures I've taken would be great.
Heres the sunset from our apartment
Not quite sure what this building was, but I liked it
These grasshoppers were huge!
The Turkish flag
Lazy Bones
Some of the ruins of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Our hotel pool at night
Scroll down to have a look :) Any comments for tips and advice on the pictures I've taken would be great.
Tuesday 17 September 2013
In the beginning
Hello again! Thanks for coming back!
I guess I should probably tell everyone about how long I've been interested in photography for and a little about why I have begun this.. quest, into photography.
Being also very new to blogging, I'm struggling a little with how to even start this and explain! So I'll do my best. Sometime in the last 6 months, my interest in photography changed. I guess I should given you that standard line that most photographers probably say:
"I've always been interested in photography, ever since I could hold a camera I was snapping everyone and everything I could!"etc.
I guess that's kind of true. My friends from university will certainly agree, and the 10,000 photos i've accumulated on facebook also backs this up. Before university I loved my disposable cameras. Especcially the underwater ones! Probably didn't take the best shots with those, but I sure had fun with them and I still have a suitcase of printed photos that i've brought with me to the 9 houses I've lived in, in the past ten years. At the age of 18, at university, was when I purchased my first digital camera. Thankfully, I bought insurance, as my ability to accidently break a camera was at it's peak, and I therefore worked my way through about 7 or 8 digital cameras. I've certainly learnt to look after my cameras a lot better since then, although I still buy insurance just in case. My cameras ranged from Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm and more, (other makes are available!) which gave me a flavour of what I liked best, and at the age of 24, I guess I just decided that it was something I wanted to take more seriously, and why not! So I made the decision that for my upcoming 25th birthday, with the help of friends and family, I was given enough money to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera.
Choosing a beginners DLSR camera: Making the step from a standard £60-80 digital camera to a DSLR camera was a big step for me. I wasn't sure where to begin, and I certainly didn't want to rush this decision as I planned to spend a few hundred pounds. I knew I wanted either Nikon or Canon- personal preference and for me, as much as it annoys my partner, I base a lot of my purchases on reviews by other people. And thats what I did. I spent a few months whilst saving and waiting for my birthday, reading review after review until I had narrowed it down to two. I figured there was no point going into Dixons etc and looking at them, because as a beginner, I wouldn't have known what I was looking for, and I'm one of those people that worries about looking silly in the shop! I also didn't want it to have looked obvious I didn't know what I was doing and end up getting sold a camera that wasn't right for me. So lots of reading later, I ended up with the Canon D600 and the Nikon D3200. Now it was time to go to the shop. I won't bang on about this for too long. I'm not writing this from the direction of "this is what should you do because I did it and now I'm a pro!" because that would be ridiculous. Many others may feel comfortable just heading to the shop and asking lots of questions, but I think as a beginner, it's easier to look online first. I think I'm starting to babble, so I'll get to the point: I bought the Nikon D3200, and so far, we're living happily ever after - see photo to illustrate happyness. This was my first blog about my quest to become... a photographer? We'll see. I'll pop some photos on the next blog of the fun i've had with it so far and you can see what you think.
Thanks for reading! :)
Alice Newton xxx
Please forgive the poor quality of the photo as obviously to take a picture of me with my camera.. I cannot use this camera! And instead have an awful digital camera (I won't say which one!) to attempt a quick timed photo of me ...plus I've also just gotten out of bed.
I guess I should probably tell everyone about how long I've been interested in photography for and a little about why I have begun this.. quest, into photography.
Being also very new to blogging, I'm struggling a little with how to even start this and explain! So I'll do my best. Sometime in the last 6 months, my interest in photography changed. I guess I should given you that standard line that most photographers probably say:
"I've always been interested in photography, ever since I could hold a camera I was snapping everyone and everything I could!"etc.
I guess that's kind of true. My friends from university will certainly agree, and the 10,000 photos i've accumulated on facebook also backs this up. Before university I loved my disposable cameras. Especcially the underwater ones! Probably didn't take the best shots with those, but I sure had fun with them and I still have a suitcase of printed photos that i've brought with me to the 9 houses I've lived in, in the past ten years. At the age of 18, at university, was when I purchased my first digital camera. Thankfully, I bought insurance, as my ability to accidently break a camera was at it's peak, and I therefore worked my way through about 7 or 8 digital cameras. I've certainly learnt to look after my cameras a lot better since then, although I still buy insurance just in case. My cameras ranged from Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm and more, (other makes are available!) which gave me a flavour of what I liked best, and at the age of 24, I guess I just decided that it was something I wanted to take more seriously, and why not! So I made the decision that for my upcoming 25th birthday, with the help of friends and family, I was given enough money to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera.
Choosing a beginners DLSR camera: Making the step from a standard £60-80 digital camera to a DSLR camera was a big step for me. I wasn't sure where to begin, and I certainly didn't want to rush this decision as I planned to spend a few hundred pounds. I knew I wanted either Nikon or Canon- personal preference and for me, as much as it annoys my partner, I base a lot of my purchases on reviews by other people. And thats what I did. I spent a few months whilst saving and waiting for my birthday, reading review after review until I had narrowed it down to two. I figured there was no point going into Dixons etc and looking at them, because as a beginner, I wouldn't have known what I was looking for, and I'm one of those people that worries about looking silly in the shop! I also didn't want it to have looked obvious I didn't know what I was doing and end up getting sold a camera that wasn't right for me. So lots of reading later, I ended up with the Canon D600 and the Nikon D3200. Now it was time to go to the shop. I won't bang on about this for too long. I'm not writing this from the direction of "this is what should you do because I did it and now I'm a pro!" because that would be ridiculous. Many others may feel comfortable just heading to the shop and asking lots of questions, but I think as a beginner, it's easier to look online first. I think I'm starting to babble, so I'll get to the point: I bought the Nikon D3200, and so far, we're living happily ever after - see photo to illustrate happyness. This was my first blog about my quest to become... a photographer? We'll see. I'll pop some photos on the next blog of the fun i've had with it so far and you can see what you think.
Thanks for reading! :)
Alice Newton xxx
Please forgive the poor quality of the photo as obviously to take a picture of me with my camera.. I cannot use this camera! And instead have an awful digital camera (I won't say which one!) to attempt a quick timed photo of me ...plus I've also just gotten out of bed.
Sunday 15 September 2013
Hello!
Hello there. My name is Alice Newton, and I'm here to tell you about why my photography is going to take the world by storm!
Ok, perhaps not.
I've started this blog, to document and record my journey from, I guess "nothing" in the photography world, to.. well I don't know what the ending is yet.
See I've read lots of photography blogs and they are all fantastic to see how well people are doing now they are a professional, or perhaps now they are so involved with their hobby that is photography, maybe they can't remember how they got there.
So, I figured I would start a blog now, while I'm still learning, in the hope that maybe others might be interested in what kind of things there are that help someone along their photographic journey.
I hope you enjoy reading :)
Ok, perhaps not.
I've started this blog, to document and record my journey from, I guess "nothing" in the photography world, to.. well I don't know what the ending is yet.
See I've read lots of photography blogs and they are all fantastic to see how well people are doing now they are a professional, or perhaps now they are so involved with their hobby that is photography, maybe they can't remember how they got there.
So, I figured I would start a blog now, while I'm still learning, in the hope that maybe others might be interested in what kind of things there are that help someone along their photographic journey.
I hope you enjoy reading :)
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