Craftsy’s Photographing Flowers with Harold Davis
Wow I can not believe it’s been ~14 months since my last post! I have been crafting but it has taken a back seat to my studying which I completed in December 2015. Hopefully I now have more time for crafting this year :). I have set myself some life goals and one of them is to improve my manual photography skills especially in macro photography. I am a BIG fan of Craftsy so naturally I looked for a suitable photography class there. There are a lot of wonderful photography classes with two classes on Flower Photography. I couldn’t decide so I went with Photographing Flowers with Harold Davis based on reviews. I am enjoying the lessons I have done so far. I’m currently at Lesson 5 and have gained enough knowledge to have a go in taking close up pics of some flowers in my garden. Here are my attempts: These photos were scaled down and saved at a lower resolution for my blog because of my slow Internet speed. These photos look so much better at the original size and higher resolution! The details are amazing when you zoom in especially the first photo. When you zoom in the original, you could see the fur (is that the right word?) on the outside of the pink hibiscus bud! I should add that our 5 1/2 year old Sony DSLR camera died on us this week so we had to buy a new DSLR camera. We went with Canon EOS 760D with a kit 18-135mm kit lens. I am slowly familiarising myself with the camera and I’m loving it!!...
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