Foody Experiment Part 1

Over the last couple of days, I've felt the need to have a go at food photography and reading this blog post on Digital Photography School gave me a few steps in the right direction also. I'll be using those tips more in the next couple of days to try to improve.

Another part to this blog post to come soon!

Victoria Embankment Gardens

While I was taking part in the Mayor of London's Skyride, a brillant event well worth doing,  I took some flowery snaps of the Victoria Embankment Gardens (self explanatory the location hopefully!) and they look really colourful and exciting. Here's a couple and as usual, the rest are on Flickr.

Looking good eh?

Up close bike parts

After some encouragement, I experimented with taking really full the frame shots of my bike. I was really impressed with the picture of the cogs at the back of the bike pictured below.

Here's another couple of my favourites:

Hope you like, more from me soon.

Pixlr Photo editor

I don't think I've mentioned that I've recently been using Pixlr and Pixlr O-Matic to add great effects to my images. Pixlr O-Matic is brillant for beginners like me to add filters and various other effects to images from your computer or a webcam. I don't think the webcam is my cup of tea being honest!

One example where I've used the online software (more available on my Flickr photostream - check the tags) is this bird bath picture in my garden.

I suggest you start to use it if you're a beginner like me!