Day 23 - 23rd August 11 - Out of Focus

Today I finally had the time to play around a bit with the manual settings on my camera.  A few years ago I did a photography course and I have dug out my notes and had a read but I have no idea how to do these settings on the digital and I actually didn't take the best notes so will have to start doing some internet research to make up a file on how to use all these settings. 

I mucked around for about an hour trying all the different settings on the camera and again most of the photo's came out too dark so I did have to edit them a bit to make them lighter but I really like this photo. 

It is of a a beautiful butterfly hanging on my wall and below are a few of the other shots I took.  I am going to try and expirement alot more with the manual settings now and see how I go, could be interesting!!!.  The biggest issue is having the time to take shot after shot until you get the right one, it's ok on the weekend but on weekday's with a limited timeframe between getting home and getting dark, it could be interesting.  Next mission is to dig out my tripod and start using it regularly.

ciao donna