The Bad Photographer » Sunshine http://www.badphotographer.com Donald Jackson's Photographic Journey Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:08:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Comeback http://www.badphotographer.com/2010/02/the-comeback/ http://www.badphotographer.com/2010/02/the-comeback/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:25:27 +0000 Donald Jackson http://www.badphotographer.com/?p=123 So you’re probably thinking I’ve been lazy. Alas I have not been, I managed to get a small hair on my camera‘s sensor. In addition to this something happened to the USB port so I could not transfer any images to my PC. Anyway, I have the camera back, USB still not working but I do have a card reader and some compatible cards now so that I can copy some photos again.

I went down to the promenade as it seemed like quite a nice sunset on the go and I managed to come up with these photos, let me know what you think? I am definitely considering a genuine ultra-wide angle lens to make sure these photos are as good as they deserve to be.

I also took a few shots the other night with my cousins, I wasn’t super impressed with the results but I’m putting them here just for completeness sake :)

]]> http://www.badphotographer.com/2010/02/the-comeback/feed/ 0 The Trip to the Farm http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/12/the-trip-to-the-farm/ http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/12/the-trip-to-the-farm/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:30:50 +0000 Donald Jackson http://www.badphotographer.com/?p=112 So today I went with my family to my Dad’s farm just outside of PE. I was testing out a new filter that I bought, a circular polarizer to see what effect it had on the photos. It had positive effects, but I was simply unable to capture the scenes that I was hoping to. I think its definitely time for me to take a photography course. Anyway, there are some spectacular views there so I thought I’d upload some of the shots I took on my day out there.

]]> http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/12/the-trip-to-the-farm/feed/ 2 The Beach http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/12/the-beach/ http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/12/the-beach/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:34:23 +0000 Donald Jackson http://www.bad-photographer.com/?p=71 I was having a tough day getting my brain into gear so I decided to take a few hours off to get some inspiration. I headed down to Camps Bay beach in Cape Town with my camera. I saw this little boy playing on the beach and managed to catch this snap of him. For those of you in the know, you’d know I am not a fan of child photography but I thought this came out too well!

I was testing out a new mode on the Canon 7D which is called “Creative Auto” which has some presets, in this one I intentionally blurred the background as much as possible. I quite like it.

]]> http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/12/the-beach/feed/ 5 The Johnny Clegg Concert http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/11/the-johnny-clegg-concert/ http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/11/the-johnny-clegg-concert/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:09:58 +0000 Donald Jackson http://www.bad-photographer.com/?p=61 My sister invited me to come to the Johnny Clegg concert for a bit of a party. Unfortunately I had quite a busy weekend so I decided to take it easy and take my camera along. I liked this photo, even though I didn’t take it. It’s of my sister and I and just captures the mood of the entire day. You can check the rest of the photos out here.

]]> http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/11/the-johnny-clegg-concert/feed/ 0 The Sunshine http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/11/the-sunshine/ http://www.badphotographer.com/2009/11/the-sunshine/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:57:29 +0000 Donald Jackson http://www.bad-photographer.com/?p=55 I was at Alex’s house-warming party and she requested I bring my camera. It was another awesome day of spring in Cape Town, and her friend Lorien suggested the technique for taking this photo. I think it really turned out well and that’s a great happy face!

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