London.

I had a trip to London last weekend (a very belated birthday present from February!) to see Shrek the Musical and see Covent Garden. I decided to take my camera along and get some practice in. I chose to take my Fuji instead of the Nikon I now tend to use. This was mainly because the Fuji is quite a bit smaller and lighter than the Nikon and I thought it would be easier to carry around with me. I obviously got the Nikon because a setting on the Fuji does not work properly but I thought if I just avoided that then it would be ok.

The day turned out to be a bit of a disaster, photography wise. Whilst I do love the Fuji it is just not up to the same standard as the Nikon and I have to say I did struggle with it a bit. I think this is because for about eight months I have been continuously using the Nikon and I found it hard to switch back to the Fuji. Obviously using the Nikon has become second nature to me which is one of the things I hoped would happen when I first started this course. The quality of the images produced was just not up to scratch either, I just could not seem to get the focus right on it. The images at the time were crystal clear as far as I could see, but once on the laptop they were distinctly blurred. Maybe this was down to feeling under pressure to shoot quickly or does the camera now have a problem with the focus also? I am hoping that it is the former and will be properly testing it out.

I think that this was a valuable experience even though things did not turn out as I hoped they would. I have realised that I am more in tune with my camera than I had previously thought, which has given me more confidence. However, it would be nice to be able to switch effortlessly between cameras!

These are only a few of the images I took, I wanted to show an overview as some are fairly similar. Also as I used the Fuji it does not tell me the settings I have not shown them here.