This Season I Shall Mostly Be Using My 50mm

Have been using the Nifty Fifty a lot recently. It has been used for the majority of pictures featured on the blog so far this year.

I really love it's low light and shallow depth of field capabilities and the fact that it's a 50mm prime lens means that you have to move around a lot more to get the shot that you want. All this for under £100 - In my view, a must for any amateur photographer.

Here are a couple of quick examples of the shallow depth of field that can be achieved using this lens.





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Music For Love

OK, so I had been planning on a love / romance based photograph for today (Valentine's Day) but I've been too busy to come up with anything :(

So not to disappoint, here is a photograph from my archive entitled - Love the Mixtape

Let There Be Light

I am currently giving my bathroom a new lease of life as it's one of the few rooms that I have never done anything with since buying the house. So far this project has included putting in a new (and much bigger) shower and enclosure, re-plastering and decoration.

Today was the day when the new lighting was put in. The old ceiling rose (and bare bulb) was removed to make way for some new down lights.

With lighting on the mind I thought the other day that I'd never taken a picture of a naked bulb so thought I'd give it a quick go! Here's how it turned out.



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I Love Cake

It was my birthday last week and I went out with some friends for a meal and some drinks to celebrate the occasion.

Two good friends got me a lovely Belgian chocolate cake and it was so nice I thought I'd capture it in a photo before I polished it all off!

The picture is actually made up of 3 photographs merged together within Photoshop.



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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz!

Driving back through the fog in to Salisbury the other night I made a quick pit stop at the Mercedes Benz garage to take a couple of quick snaps.

With the fog, it was quite an eriee night and I was trying to capture that in photos. That didn't really work but here are a few of the shots anyway!







Looks like their fancy lights need a bit of a clean!

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Tunnel Through The Trees

This tunnel through the trees is located on the road to Grately.

I drove down there a few times recently and thought it would make a good photograph as the road is really straight, it seems to go on forever and the trees really do resemble a tunnel when driving through.



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