Rejoicing In The Rain

Today has been a day of sudden rain showers. 

Most people view rain as bad weather, but it depends on your viewpoint. For me it was an opportunity to try out my camera and see what I could do in the early stages.

In this shot I was trying to get the focus on the rain on the window. It took a few attempts to work out where to stand so that I wasn't in the window reflection and to get the actual drops showing, not the background. 

I then went into my photo editor and did a black & white picture.

For this one I used a blurry filter, trying to highlight the central raindrop. 

I found a setting to change the colour. I've not done this before, so thought i'd give it a go. 

Finally, I used an overlay frame to get the transparent sort of frame. 

It's amazing how one simple photo of some raindrops can look so different. I know I still have a long way to go and there's probably a whole lot of other things I could do with this photo alone, but it's a start and I've really enjoyed it. :)

The Very Beginning

I have always been an arty person, but one area I have overlooked for a long time is photography. 

Due to ill health I have become housebound, and this changes your whole perspective on life. 

So over the last year, without really thinking about it, I started taking more and more photos on my mobile phone camera. Trouble is, it's very limited in what it can do. As soon as you start to zoom, for instance, you lose all definition. This was leaving me very frustrated. 

Yesterday, that all changed. I now have a blue Nikon L810 bridge camera. 

It was a bit of a risk, as I wasn't sure how into photography I was going to get. I've never been into technology in a huge way. 

But today is my first proper day of starting to play with the camera and I love it!!! 

Every few minutes I'm seeing something and trying out a shot. I think i'm going to become a photo nut!

The great thing about this as a hobby is I can take photos when I feel well enough. I can also take photos sitting down and it doesn't take too much energy. And playing with the photos on my computer again is fairly low-energy too! 

I hope you'll enjoy seeing what I see, a world through my camera. 

Watch out for more posts soon!

Thanks for reading :)