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December 2016
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Photographers Resource |
ISSN 2399-6706 |
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Issue No: 155 |
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Some Christmas cakes can become quite large.
(This photo also shows that you can
take photos on your iPhone).
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Everyone at
Photographers Resource Would Like to wish
you a Very |
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Happy
Christmas and a successful
New Year for 2017 |
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Another year has nearly past us by and 2017
is just around the corner. The nights get dark early and it's colder, but
that shouldn't put you off photography. Christmas and all the parties and
functions you attend will provide plenty of opportunities to snap family,
friends, colleagues and the office party 'funny' or 'awkward' moments. If
going to a party lugging your camera is not seen as the done thing, then
today's smartphone cameras provide an image quality quite suitable for
website use, and sharing with your friends online. When using these
cameras it is tempting to let them 'auto' snap and for most occasions this
is perfectly acceptable, but don't forget to put your photo techniques
into practice.
If you are of sturdy stock and can brave
the evening chill then there are lots of possibilities on your doorstep,
with many towns and cities lighting up some of their streets with festive
lights, winter wonderlands with their ice rinks and fairgrounds as well as
dramatic weather photos. Not everything shuts down for winter, and we have
an
always
open
article which gives you some ideas of photo opportunities to look out for
over the coming months. So if you fancy getting out and about together
with our list of
always open heritage places
there is something for everyone. |
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Bourton on the Water,
Gloucestershire
Every year a very large Christmas Tree
is placed in the River in the centre of the village. This photo was taken using a star filter, to pick up the
effect of the street lights around.
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I love living in the countryside and
being able to see the Red Robin, so associated with Christmas,
searching out for food in my garden, as well as using our large hedges
for shelter. But also when you get the frosts there is ice, frosted
cobwebs, dramatic mists and ice patterns in the garden pond or on the
car windscreen.
So from this you can see there are so many
opportunities available and there is no need to put your camera away
over the winter, as long as you can brave the colder temperatures you
can continue to increase your photo collection, take the opportunity
to try out new skills, and make use of the attractions open. |
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The Robin.
Adorning many a seasonal Christmas
Card, but also will be found foraging in our gardens and in the parks
and countryside on those special days out during the winter months.
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If on the other hand you're not so keen to get
out and about over the winter months, or at least not every weekend then
over the coming winter months perhaps it is time to take on some good
housekeeping tasks. We all do it, we spend our time taking gorgeous images
but spend very little, if any, in organising them, or even backing them up.
So perhaps during the winter months it is time to make sure we have our
photo stock in order.
It is all too easy today to have thousands of
photos on your computer or in the cloud, collected over many years.
Eventually your cloud storage and computer's hard disk fills up and then you
invest in an
external
hard drive
or other devices to store them on. But once you have all these photos how do
you go about finding them again. It's not easy, very few of us are
librarians and are any good at indexing or filing. Even less of us like
backing
up our photo collections,
and very few do it. The extra time you have indoors over the coming months,
may be the best time to sort out, back up,
organise and index
your photos for future prosperity. We also have other articles
you might find helpful for this task, including;
metadata,
keywords and captions,
using
flags
and filters.
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A Frosty Winter Morning |
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See You Again
in 2017 |
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We are continuing to upgrade this
website
It is taking
time, but in the background we are continuing to move from a Microsoft
based website to something much newer and more flexible, run on our Apple
systems. Our Windows computer is often difficult to start and should it
fail, before the new system is live, we will allow a gap of a month or two
to occur rather than waste time setting up outdated systems as a temporary
measure. So if we go missing for a while please check back regularly as we
will be back.
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