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digital photography

I took some photos today, with my new digital camera (man I'm still smiling over being able to say that!) while waiting for the home delivery ice-cream man to come along our street. I deliberately took one with the intention of turning an ordinary photo into a better one, just to prove to myself that I can indeed take an interesting shot, and that not all the decent ones are the result of pure arse or luck.

Raw Photo:

After I'd played around with it, but only a little bit:.

Now I'm not even close to being able to call myself even an amateur at this point, "interested party" when it comes to photography would probably be more appropriate, but I must say I'm mighty pleased with myself for these! I took the photo with the modified version in mind. I liked the lines, and thought they would look great in black and white, and they do. I'm learning more and more about the Gimp program everyday and it's fantastic. For those of you that don't know what it is, it's basically the Open Source equivalent to Photoshop. I can't wait to see what I can do in a few months once I've learned a bit more about all the functions it has to offer. I'm really looking forward to it actually!

Here's one of the other pics I took too....untouched in anyway except a little cropping. I'm learning what all the settings on the camera do still, so don't critique me too much ok? I just loved the colors and I'm very impressed with how the camera handled them, and the light. Not bad for a little digital compact hey?

I can see I'm going to have fun with this photography thing, just the outlet I've always wanted for my creative side I think, between taking the photo's and messing around with them. I WILL do a course for it one day, this is just way to much fun and satisfying somewhere deep inside my heart and soul for me to not do something about it.