Etsy

I've recently started to sell my items on Etsy again. I'd tried it before but didn't try hard enough! So I'm back again with new images & a new look & I'm going to give it my everything. So far I've been on Etsy 10 days & I'm slowly creeping up to my first 1000 views. So I'm getting views, just not sales, but I hope this will happen soon.

So my products are mainly framed prints but I also have a wall calendar & Christmas cards for sale. I also have a winter themed print set available too!

Click the photo below to visit my shop :)

Fisheye

I recently got a few films developed that I'd had lying round which spanned a few years. Let me tell you, it wasn't cheap to get them developed but it was oh so worth it! So here's a few from that batch of images. Hope you enjoy! 

The camera

Autumn 2011

So last year I did a post at the beginning of Autumn showcasing a few images of the previous year. This year I'd like to do the same :) Tune in next year for 2012's images!

2010A set on Flickr

Star trails

 Star trails are a little complicated to do but can be very rewarding.

I did this shot by setting up my tripod in the garden & by using Stellarium (a free program available to download which you can set up to show you the night sky in your area) I could find where Polaris (the north star) is. I pointed my camera (a 7D with a 18-55mm kit lens) at Polaris, keeping the corner of the house & the tree in the frame to add context & shot 4 exposures, each with differing times hence the brightness of the trails varying.

If you have dark enough skies, there's no need to keep stopping & restarting the shutter. My reason for doing this was because the skies in my area are polluted by light from Manchester which was magnified by the sky being a little hazy too.

I put the 4 expsosures together in Photoshop using this tutorial*.

So in short, simple star trail shots are achieved by using a tripod, remote, camera & lens & taken long exposure shots (30 seconds each is sufficient enough but the amount of photographs taken will need to increase if you want longer trails) & then the individual shots are combined in Photoshop.

Obviously this is just my way of doing these shots, you can find your own ways of doing it to adapt your style.


* http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS1E389632-4B37-425e-8EAB-1384C0B432D3a.html