Here's my Festive Portrait photos I took for CJ's photography course. I'm not keen on taking pics of myself there's always something I don't like.

Day 1 Balancing Act was playing with the WB Settings with Flash on and off. The pictures for this Assignment are in the past few posts as Uploaded them as I did them. I learn't that with the type of light we have in our house Tungsten is the best setting to haveing on indoors. And I'm finding I'm always playing with the WB settings before taking a photo where as before I had kept my camera set to WB Auto and Auto Flash.

Day 2 Spell It Out - Assignment to take a photo that speaks to the viewer.

I took this photo at Tescos whilst waiting for some photos to be printed. This was only a quick go so I'm sure when time is on my side I could do better.

Day 3 Custom and Practice. The assignment was to try some photographic rules and breaking them. Have to say I don't think I quite got it but these were the photos I submitted, they were of my youngest making xmas cards at a Christmas Crafts course were attending.

I set my Camera to Auto Flash and WB Tungsten but the photos came out rather yellow. Need more practice. I like the angle of the shot though in the first picture.

Day 4 Illuminations. Assignment to try and take some photos of pretty lights. Here's my attempt and personally I don't feel I did too well. The following were taken with Auto Flash On and WB set to Cloudy

As you can see they didn't come out very well especially the cable lol. The following are take with Auto Flash Set to Off and WB set to Cloudy

again with Auto Flash off and set to WB Cloudy. But I wobbled the camera by accident but love the effect lol.

Ok and this is where I got left behind :( and it was only a 12 day course. I'm hoping to play catch up over the next few days. I have my assignments and info to refer back to saved on my computer :)

Next up Shabby Princess has a free Recipe Card and Hybrid Folder for download on her site here - http://shabbyprincess.com/downloads/holidayrecipe/holidayrecipecollection.asp

and I can't take credit for the recipes on the following cards either as I found these on www.bakerella.com, fab site definantly work a look. I'm intending to make the chocolate chip cookies hopefully tomorrow if I have time or monday.

I have finished my Cat Sculpture which I will try and post later Just need to upload the photos and resize them so they will upload.

Day 1 - Playing around with WB settings. The following were taken using the Fill setting and Flash On. Again not sure on a favourite, they have all turned out very similar. I suppose Day Light or Fluorescent worked the best if I had to choose.

Day 1 playing with WB Settings with Flash on and set to Slow Sync. Think Fluorescent might been the best one in this set of photos.

Day 1 Again been playing with the WB Settings and the following photos are take using Auto Flash.
Not sure which is the best out of these as they all look the same to me lol.

Cheryl Johnson's Twelve Days of Christmas Workshop

Here's my attempt to day one, had a play with my camera with the WB settings - Cloudy, Tungsten, Fuorescent, Day Light and Auto. These Images were done with the flash off.
Tungstan I think was the best setting with the light I had in my living room this evening.

Here are my Final pages for my Holidays in Hand Class, just need to insert the writing and pictures, Wish me luck :).

Will probably make a start on the filling in over the weekend, as I have a few other projects that need my attention. I've got to catch up on three prompts for Cheryal Johnsons 12 day Photography Course, I will explain more in my next post. I have a cat and owl wire sculpture to complete by Tuesday next week and got to do the middle of my Calendar though its useable as is lol.

Here's my Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Holidays in Hand pages. So 13/25 LOs done lol. I will get there lol. I'm actually shocked on how many LOs I've completed using only two kits, it's a record for me. :)

Made Mince Pies yesterday with my boys and a friend, have to say they tasted great but looked a little like road kill mince pies after the difficulty we had getting them out of the trey lol. Today me and my friend helped the boys make some Christmas Cards, My eldest was definantly on a roll with his. They were really simple for the boys to make. I bought a pack of 40 sheets of card for a £1 and a bundle of wrapping paper and 2 extra sheets for £1.24, So all in all a bargain and we helped the boys cut the pictures they wanted to use and helped fold the card ready for the boys to stick their pictures on. My eldest also attempted some writting which was fab. We will be continueing with some more makes as the days go by in our prep for xmas :) And when I get the chance I'll post some piccys.