Digi photo group has been discussing how best to use your camera …

At our last group meeting, we repeated a session we had done at a much earlier meeting, when we just experimented with our cameras, testing just what all the controls actually did!  Chatting with each other and explaining what we knew and asking about what we did not fully understand, proved to be really useful.  So on a sunny but cold Sunday I went (very slowly!!) on a Stephenson’s coach to Bridlington …

As the day was so bright I added a polarising filter to the ultra violet one permanently fitted to the lens, along with a lens hood for much of the time.  The problem with these is remembering that they cut off your corners when on the nearest lens depth!  Apart from cropping and some automatic adjust, the photos seen

here are as taken  –  the point of the exercise was to take the views in different ways, through the camera setting, and not to revert to changing things in a programme afterwards.  We had talked about depth of field and manual settings, so many shots were taken to try out these techniques.  So what I took is what you see ..  hope the contrasts are of interest.

PS: I titled the images and hoped the titles would come up when you hovered your mouse, but that doesn’t seem to have worked unfortunately.