Nothing like a bank holiday for getting stuff done, I’ve been busy all day but I thought I’d put together a good stuff post before I forgot. Featuring a couple of Easter themed links from across the internet. Enjoy!
Quit hiding your cables, dress them up! Via unplgged
Annie’s eats does chicken and shrimp jambalaya, we’re having a deep south cook-off in our kitchen in the next couple of weeks. We’ll have gumbo, jambalaya, red velvet cake, corn bread, sweet p’tatos & all manner of cajun goodies. Think we’re doing a sausage jambalaya!
To keep the blog ticking over in this busy period, here’s a draft I’ve had for a while. Enjoy!
So, my weapon of choice (uuum… what’s the term for camera? you know, like an axe is a guitar?… anyway) is a canon 400D (that’s XTi to some). And whilst I love love love it for all it’s worth, I do love my lomography and vignettes. Sooo I once saw this tutorial on how to make your DSLR into a pinhole. Nifty, thought I! So here we go!
Here’s your ingredients
1 DSLR camera (or, a camera with convertable lenses)
1 spare body cap (don’t use the one that you actually use, cos we’re gunna drill holes and shit)
Thin aluminium or thick tin foil
Here’s the tools you’ll need
Coarse sandpaper (try 20 or 40 grade)
Dremel/hand held drill/power drill
Thin needle
black marker
electrical tape (darkest colour you can find)
First things first, you want to sand off the name from the body cap. There’s no real reasoning to this, other than it gives you a nicer flat surface and looks tonnes neater with the finished lens. Use you rough sandpaper, or one of your dremel attachments, then finish with a finer grade.
Then, drill a hole through the very centre of the body cap, quite a small hole is best! On the inside of the body cap, over the top of the hole, stick your thin aluminium/tin foil using the black electrical tape. Through the centre of the hole, and the aluminium, use the finest needle you have to poke a tiny little hole. TADA! You’re done.
Here’re some photos I took using the said pinhole lens, have fun playing with you camera settings for this one! Long shutter speeds and a tripod are most definitely your friends. I also really like the dirt spots, but they also make me feel like a bad camera mother.
Yesterday was such a nice day, Adam and I decided to get out of the house for a bit… somewhere that didn’t involve supermarket shopping, DIY stores or parents’ homes. We headed to a local historical beauty spot called Oakwell Hall. It’s a small manor house that was built in the late 1500s which has a tonne of surrounded land with some prescribed nature walks, a cafe, a shop, and a bazillion dog walkers. We strolled along the nature trail (which is only short at 2miles) and then walked around the house garden for a while. Have some photos…
Sunshine!
A rare ‘couple’ photo.
Pretty thistles. I’m loving the bokeh on my tamron lens, it’s so much smoother than on my canon lenses!
Hi, I'm Kim. Between being a web designer and making pretty things I'm mostly interested in Creatures (regular and crypto), geekiness, my inner domestic goddess, drawing and coffee.
