Playing with my camera

I just decided to pick up my camera and take some shots. Clickon them in case you want to see them with more detail.

Capturing True Emotions - photography class by Val Westover & Stephanie Adrianna

I attended Capturing True Emotions - photography class by Val Westover & Stephanie Adrianna yesterday and had such fun. I finally took out my new Nikon d7000 and had learnt lots of controls. I am presently also taking online class at karenrussell and lol have taken beginning class 1st part from Candice Stringham at Jessica Sprague too.
This was a surprise from hubby who said I should maybe go as there is nothing like being live - when the person is in front of you to ask doubts and get it cleared . How true that proved. I knew the theory but lol to turn it to practice. Nothing beats that as I learnt a lot of setting on my camera.
Also when we are in a group lots of fun things are possible. I enjoyed the "safari" part of the class a lot!
we were asked to play with each settings they asked us to do and record and then compare.
It did not matter if some shots turned dark -was blurry etc etc as the whole point was to learn how each settings affected the picture
So here are some of my shots. I will later add the camera settings. Do click on the picture to see it enlarged.

This was at the class before the play  - with 50 mm 1.4 nikon lens.

The rest was at Waterwall at Houston and taken with 18-105mm kit lens.

The Bench at the park. we were asked to take a shot with particular setting. I decided to bend and take pictures but just look how just a little bit of change in angle - changes the view a bit. So learnt an additional thing  that take more than one picture at different angles.

Same settings as previous but on water bottle

This following one was metering experiment

Now came the shutter speed & panning with slow shutter speed

Now comes higher shutter speed

Then I had an unexpected model

Then came what I call Facebook fun. Fun portrait for facebook :) . Val standing on bench and taking their picture while everyone was pointing their camera at them. It was so fun.

Well instead of just pointing I took a picture too here

While here I was the subject

Photography challenge - Sweet Vice

This week's challenge at the cricut circle board is your sweet vice as I call it.
This was shot with my Nikon d5000 in aperture mode with 50mm 1.4 nikon lens. And I think the it was 1/60 or 1/90 at f1.8
Here is one of mine

Photography Challenge - Feets

Thought I would post photography here as it falls vaguely under design doesn't it? Anyway this blog is empty as I am not doing much digital stuff as my old laptop is breathing it's last. I tweaked and tweaked and got atleast PS to work so here goes - a photo for the cricut circle MB photography challenge hosted by my friends Myamagoo and Beth217.
Theme is Feets and of course what better feet than what this blog is named for
Papillon feet

Long time!

Hmm. Long time since I posted anything in this blog. I have been busy! watching videos of various classes. Yep a long list of catching up to do. So it will be a while till I create something! Meanwhile I did make one change- I decided to change the logo a bit. I still wanted the logo to represent my butterflies ie my papillon babies and so like their tags but the name was almost lost within so changed it to go around instead of inside the papillon figure.
Also well to show that this is a scrapbooking site and not about dogs (lol) I added a small scrapbooking album. Yeah! I am beginning to love illustrator!!

How to use the Digital Kit

People have asked me if I am going to make videos on using the kit. I will not be doing that as there are tons of videos already there. Click on JS button on the right sidebar and it will take you to the website where you can take the up & coming class by JessicaSpraue to learn to use kits using adobe elements or photoshop.
But you can also just print out the elements and use it as Hybrid :) . Pages can be dragged and dropped in word and sized to 8 x 8. Turn off the page margin options by going to page layout as they are usually 1 inch and you do not want that to print on 8.5 x 11 paper if you want a 8 x 8 page. You also have to resize other elements till they fit. Best way is of course using a photo editor like Gimp which is free or  adobe photoshop elements or photoshop

Welcome

Welcome to my Digital Design Blog. As my sister blog - TheBugBytes is solely for Cricut Gypsy this blog is for Digital Scrapbooking Kits.

Here is my very first kit called RainDance. To download this kit click on this link -

  http://www.jessicasprague-m3.com/downloads/ArtofDigitalDesign/kits/PR_RainDance_FullKit.zip

Hope you like this kit.