Tiny Whale With A Halo

Today, after admin, I have been playing with the water splash kit that steveng kindly loaned me for our camera club practical session next week.

I'm not cut out for this sort of thing. I learned a lot though. I'm going to need both of the lights, and much higher shutter speeds than I anticipated. Also it would be good to have someone squeezing the water from the eye dropper to enable the photographer to concentrate on the shutter release. I couldn't ask my usual glamorous assistant as she was fast asleep on the sofa. Also I don't think I will bother with any coloured backdrops as you can just change the white balance temperature and tint in Lightroom. Thank goodness for Lightroom noise reduction too.

I didn't get any decent water droplet images and anyway I thought the scene needed something in it to add interest. Why not my tiny whale I thought, then I can tag it for Tiny Tuesday too. Whales are animals aren't they? And they like water.

Back to camera club - last night went reasonably well. We had 26 members turn up (lower than usual) to watch a video presentation, The Heart Of The Photograph. It was a bit laborious and verbose at times, but there were some interesting ideas about what makes a 'good' photo. I could sense people shuffling about a bit in their seats and a few sneaked out before the end. Overall though it was OK, and we saved the speaker fee, which can go towards the rather high costs I'm looking at next season. 

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