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Camera Challenge 3 – Triangle Of Light – Understanding Shutter Speed

Camera Challenge 3 – Triangle Of Light – Understanding Shutter Speed

by Katy Cameron | 23.03.2015 | Camera Challenge Posts, Camera Challenges 2015

Last month we enthusiastically embraced the first side of the Triangle Of Light, Aperture, and this month we’re going to move round to Shutter Speed.  The main purpose of this month is to see the effect that different shutter speeds can have on different elements...
Camera Challenge 2 Review Triangle of Light – Understanding Aperture

Camera Challenge 2 Review Triangle of Light – Understanding Aperture

by Katy Cameron | 09.03.2015 | Camera Challenge Reviews, Camera Challenges 2015, Photography, Tutorials

This month’s challenge was to start understanding the ‘Triangle Of Light’, beginning with aperture.  The main idea was to show what the effect is when your aperture is increased or decreased, particularly when close to the subject of the photo. This is the setup I...
White Balancing Your 50 Shades Of Grey – Camera Challenge Bonus Post

White Balancing Your 50 Shades Of Grey – Camera Challenge Bonus Post

by Katy Cameron | 06.03.2015 | Camera Challenge Reviews, Camera Challenges 2015, Photography, Tutorials

Now that we have moved away from full auto mode and the presets in our camera challenges, there are a few things that we need to consider apart from the aperture and shutter speed in order to ensure a good photo. The first thing you need to consider is the metering...
Camera Challenge 2 – The Triangle Of Light – Understanding Aperture

Camera Challenge 2 – The Triangle Of Light – Understanding Aperture

by Katy Cameron | 23.02.2015 | Camera Challenge Posts, Camera Challenges 2015

Well done everyone with the last challenge, this month we’re going to have some fun playing with aperture.  Now you know those photos where there’s 1 thing in focus and everything else is a pleasing blur?  (The Japanese call it bokeh, and apparently the arty farties...
Camera Challenge 1 Review – Using Pre-sets To Compare With Full Auto

Camera Challenge 1 Review – Using Pre-sets To Compare With Full Auto

by Katy Cameron | 09.02.2015 | Camera Challenge Reviews, Camera Challenges 2015, Photography, Tutorials

This month’s challenge covered using the pre-sets on your camera compared to full auto mode.   The main point of this exercise was to start to try and understand the ‘Triangle Of Light’, which is used to describe the balance needed by the 3 main settings that you...
Good Camera Practices – Camera Challenge Bonus

Good Camera Practices – Camera Challenge Bonus

by Katy Cameron | 30.01.2015 | Camera Challenges 2015, Photography, Tutorials

One of the things that’s often missed in the ‘how tos’ of camera use is how to hold yourself and the camera, and also how to compose and take the shot, so I thought I’d do a wee bonus post for those of you doing the camera challenges. Holding Your Camera The first...
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The last of the holiday photos have finally been p The last of the holiday photos have finally been processed - can we be back in a pool in the sunshine next week please? Our final meal was 'Up the hill' at the Mas Des Vignes, with a champagne cocktail alongside a cod ball amuse bouche at sunset on the terrace and another fabulous dinner of burrata with tomatoes and white truffle shavings, followed by beef fillet with potatoes, a cheese plate with fig jam and a desert of peach, cherry and goats cheese sorbets, with a few petit fours for the road. #jackdoesmasdesvignes #jackdoesprovence #jackdoesfrance2021
Reminder that you have until tomorrow night to boo Reminder that you have until tomorrow night to book into the next Basic Maintenance Class on 02/10. This will be the last one of this year, but if you can't make this one, we have gift vouchers which can be used on both products and classes, in case you want to put in a good word with Santa for next year! . . . . . . . #thelittlestthistleshop #sewingmachineshop #sewingmachineparts #machinecare #sewingmachine #onlineshop #singer221 #singer222 #singerfeatherweight #sewing #sewcialist #lovesewing #lovequilting #sewist #sewingblogger
Her indoors has been back at work for 3 days now, Her indoors has been back at work for 3 days now, but I applied a sharp paw poke to her nether regions and got her to process last Thursday's pics, the 2nd to last day of the holiday. 1. For fans of Peter Mayle's Hotel Pastis, this was the actual, real life bank in L'Isle Sur La Sorgue, a town whose historic centre is an Island. 2. - 3. The town is known for its antique shops and Sunday antique markets, as well as having a Thursday 'regular' market. It also has funky wee shops down random alleys, but it's very welcoming! 4. LT's mum requested crêpes for lunch, and in France that means restaurants with leanings towards the region of Brittany, regardless of where they are in the country and that therefore your galettes (savoury crêpes) are served with teacups of cider big enough to bathe in. 5. The galletes are always huge, and the best ones come with an egg in the centre which oozes yolk over the rest of the toppings (in this case ham and reblochon cheese) 6. LT's dad felt he should also sample the sweet crêpes, you know, just to be equitable. Unfortunately that meant lots of other 🐻 to share with... 7. We ended the day at the Delices Du Luberon shop to stock up on all the tapenade #jackdoeslislesurlasorgue #jackdoesprovence #jackdoesfrance2021
Just a wee reminder for anyone wanting to attend t Just a wee reminder for anyone wanting to attend the next Basic Maintenance Class on 02/10, the last day to book in will be 27/09 as there are things I need to send out ahead of the class. Just click on the link in the picture to take you to the booking options ☺️ . . . . . . . #thelittlestthistleshop #sewingmachineshop #sewingmachineparts #machinecare #sewingmachine #onlineshop #singer221 #singer222 #singerfeatherweight #sewing #sewcialist #lovesewing #lovequilting #sewist #sewingblogger
The early morning sun starts to creep over the tre The early morning sun starts to creep over the trees at one side of the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek. The area was at the centre of the failed Operation Market Garden in September 1944, when Allied troops attempted to seize the bridge over the Rhine in nearby Arnhem before the retreating Germans could blow it up. During the operation nearly 46,000 men would be killed, wounded or captured between the two sides, but Oosterbeek in particular saw three quarters of the British 1st Airborne division lost. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 1,684 Commonwealth service men are buried or commemorated here, of which 243 are unidentified, along with 79 Polish, 3 Dutch and 4 non-war related graves (including 3 former workers at the cemetery). That is the current known numbers, although Allied soldiers are still being uncovered in the surrounding countryside even in the 21st century, after which their remains are interred here.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Each year on the Sunday following the 17th September, a memorial service is held and local school children lay flowers on the graves.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #commonwealthwargraves #cwgc #oosterbeek #netherlands #migrationmonday #migrationmondaylt #travelphotography #canon7d #mycanon #canonuk
Round 2 of yesterday's adventures. 1. & 2. Moliè Round 2 of yesterday's adventures. 1. & 2. Molière and Corneille don't look entiretly thrilled about the prospect of the opera starting up again... 3. 6. & 7. Some of the crazy painted fake windows around the centre of the city 4. LT's dad's favourite hat shop ever, he has hundreds of photos of it and bought a beret from it this year 5. Umbrellas over alleys are so passé, zoom in to see what's in now... 8. & 9. Are actually the 2 different courses from lunch at the Vietnamese restaurant, but someone wolfed down the 2nd course before taking a photo (we were distracted by the comings and goings of the sapeur pompiers up and down the alley we were seated in - LT) 10. The other famous bit of the Palais Des Papes #jackdoesavignon #jackdoesprovence #jackdoesfrance2021
The staff have been slacking badly here and have o The staff have been slacking badly here and have only just sorted out yesterday's photos, can you imagine?! (There was a horrific thunder storm that lasted for hours late yesterday afternoon/evening/night - LT) Anywho, yesterday we went to Avignon and pottered about, which is to say that someone's mum has no sense of direction and we got a whole tour round the walls of the city on the way to the market (which is nowhere near the walls of the city 😂) before walking all over other more recognisable parts. 1. Part of the Palais Des Papes - we always park underneath the square here 2. I should have just stayed here at the sweet shop when I saw it, it was all downhill from here! 3. A yarn bombed bike outside a cafe in the non-touristy parts of the city 4. When you've been doing up the walls and then you just stop, quite inexplicably, in the middle of a section... 5. Someone seems to have been saying balls to the Palais de Justice... 6. Back in well known parts I found the perfect wee tent, but no-one would buy it for me. It came with a sleeping bag and everything! (The shop was shut and it was a model - LT) 7. A lovely, cheery flower shop in the rain 8. The carousel which has been there forever (at least 30 years) but there weren't many kids wanting a go in the rain #jackdoesavignon #jackdoesprovence #jackdoesfrance2021
Went out for a dead posh lunch today at L'Oustalet Went out for a dead posh lunch today at L'Oustalet in Gigondas which has ⭐s and everything! You can tell it's dead posh because of the 3 extra courses you don't order and don't appear on the menu but appear by magic in front of you... 1.a wee glass of Beaumes De Venise while we contemplate the wine lists. Yes, lists, each tome behind me is a list, 1 white, 1 red. 2. The first magically appearing wee things, an olive ball an some super thin crackers as appetizers 3. Magical appearance number 2, an amuse bouche of nasturtium leaf wrapped green stuff with a courgette foam and pea shoot (some people forgot to take notes from the waiter while I was posing) 4. Starter with roasted aubergine, smoked tofu and lapsang souchong jelly. 5. Waiter, there's a fish in my celeriac! Someone's mother, the ex French teacher, has a poor track record on fish recognition in menus. As penance she had to swap it for her ravioli made from yellow courgettes which all made a yummy main course with the celeriac, celery, potato discs and celery foam, while no doubt horrifying the chef 6. After LT's parents chickened out of the lists and went for the sommelier's choice with each course, giant bottles kept turning up. 7. The cheese course wasn't your usual dods of different things, but a big pile of pecorino shavings on top of a moussey thing that no-one caught the name of 8. The bottles started getting disappointingly smaller... 9. Dessert of sheep's cheese foam over stewed rhubarb 10. The petit fours of confit local fruit and nougat #loustalet_gigondas #michelinstar
The second of the holiday's stunt quilts gets a sh The second of the holiday's stunt quilts gets a showing off, my long awaited #plaidishquilt - pattern by @kitchentablequilting which I made a bit bigger for big bed size (around 104" square). Fabric is all from my stash, including newsprint backing (formerly a shiny new duvet cover which I opened up and made up to size) and black and white stripey binding. Pieced and quilted with @aurifil but *gasp* I nearly exhausted my cone of 2021 piecing it. Fret not though, I had a spare in the wings 😂 . . . . . . . #quilting #quilt #iquilt #sewing #sewcialist #lovesewing #lovequilting #isew #sewist #sewingblogger #quiltblogger #blogger #aurifil
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Reminder that you have until tomorrow night to book into the next Basic Maintenance Class on 02/10. This will be the last one of this year, but if you can't make this one, we have gift vouchers which can be used on both products and classes, in case you want to put in a good word with Santa for next year!.......#thelittlestthistleshop #sewingmachineshop #sewingmachineparts #machinecare #sewingmachine #onlineshop #singer221 #singer222 #singerfeatherweight #sewing #sewcialist #lovesewing #lovequilting #sewist #sewingblogger ... See MoreSee Less

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