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Toast of the Town Photography Workshop

13 Sunday Jul 2014

Posted by masquerade21 in Glasgow, Photography, Scotland

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Blogger Event, blogger meet-up, blogger workshop, bloggers, Buchanan Street, cone-head statue, Dreghorn Photography, Edinburgh bloggers, flowers, George Square, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games, Glasgow bloggers, ISO, Joes Bloggers, lion statue, Millennium Hotels, photography, pigeons, Royal Exchange Square, Shutter speed, Statues, Toast of the town #toastofthetown, workshop

So on Saturday I was lucky enough to attend the Toast of the Town photography workshop hosted by Millennium Hotel in George Square ( a gorgeous hotel, see for yourself at http://www.millenniumhotels.co.uk/millenniumglasgow ) in partnership with Joes Bloggers and Dreghorn Photography.

The workshop was very useful and I learned how to properly use the ISO and shutter speed settings on my camera. I also learned the most important rule of photography – NEVER USE AUTO! 

We learned the basics about ISO and Shutter speed and then we got to practice with our cameras to reinforce what we had learned.

I am so glad that I learned about how to use my camera’s shutter speed settings because now I can go from this:

20140712_130837To this :

20140712_131028We also learned how to pick the right background for portrait photos. My partner for background exercises was the lovely Laura from http://www.lifeasanhourglass.com/  and here are some of the images I took of her :

20140712_12373720140712_124116Then it was time to break for lunch.

20140712_132738I had a haggis bon bon, a mini burger and a venison sausage hotdog. I have never tried venison before but I was very impressed with the venison sausage, it was a little tough but tasted great. There were also gorgeous looking desserts on offer but I was too full to go and get one.

After lunch we visited George Square, Royal Exchange Square and Buchanan Street and were let loose to put our lessons into practice and take interesting photos.

I spent most of my time experimenting with what I had learned about ISO and shutter speed so I took a lot of rubbish photos but there were some that I liked:

Photos from George Square

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Photos from Royal Exchange Square

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Photo from Buchanan Street

20140712_150527At the end of the workshop I was given a nice goody-bag by Millennium Hotels which contained, among other things, a camera cleaning kit which will be very useful 🙂

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To see the pictures taken by other bloggers  during the workshop checkout #toastofthetown on twitter.

Thank you to Millennium Hotels, Joe’s Bloggers and Dreghorn Photography for a great workshop, I learned a lot!

Thanks for checking out my blog 🙂

 

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18 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by masquerade21 in Uncategorized

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Beauty, Fashion, flowers, Nails, Tutorial

Nail It With Flowers!
I came across this post which had gathered together 10 floral nail tutorials which look really cool. Since some of my followers post a lot about nail art I thought I would share this. This was reblogged from http://sweetfancydesigns.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/top-ten-floral-manicure-tutorials/

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