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simoncookerussell
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Thanks for that, perfect response to what I wanted.

And as for composition, as I said earlier, all my pics are generally cropped 1×1 for IG, being as IG and my iPhone got me interested in photography, and working in a 1×1 environment is harder than full frame.

As for the blurred background pics, i did those before I read the book, Understanding Exposuer, and I had no idea what DOF and a apertures were about, I only ever shot on full auto, CA and P.  it’s a very frustrating hobby to have, especially when I have no other outlet to get info apart from the Internet, were you see what you want to accomplish, but are mostly left with the “how the f#%* did he do that” feeling.

I like that pic also that you posted with the drain pipe, funnily though, it’s over saturated to the hilt, that drain ain’t blue 😉 and I get what you mean about the lines in the photo, but that was taken way back when I just started, wasn’t thinking about lines and so forth. I will from this day forward post all my pics, IG and Flickr in full as shot aspects, at least then I can’t hide behind the 1×1

If you really want to see where I started and where I have ended up in this hobby, go through my IG account from begging tomost recent, and the first pic will tell you exactly when I started this hobby. At least you may get an idea on any improvements.

thanks for your time and help I hate Fauxtography. I’ll have another attempt at that Pic and see what I can do with it now.