Outfit of the week #2 - White Floral Dress

Its really starting to feel like summer now! I checked the weather today and its supposed to be hot and sunny all week! Yesterday I spent the majority of the day in the garden practising my photography skills and reading. It was a wonderful day, and during the day I realised I wanted the outfit I was wearing to be my outfit of the week; my white floral dress bought last year toward the end of summer. Due to when I bought it I wasn't able wear it that much, so I was thrilled at the chance to wear it in the hot balmy weather.

Dress - Last years summer collection dress at new look. 

Hat - My Granddads (he left it by accident!)

Footbed Sandals - Next £20 (a great cheap alternative to Birkenstocks)

Watch/activity monitor - Misfit wearables, Misfit shine. Amazon £64.67

I had a lot of fun doing this shoot, all of the photographs were taken using a tripod and self timer on my Nikon D3100. There were a lot of mishaps; blurry images or me not being in the right place or too much light making me pull weird faces! The ones I chose were the better quality images, however I still think some of them could be better focused, and definitely better posed! I felt a bit more comfortable taking these photographs than last time, as there was no one around but me, however I still felt uncomfortable looking through them and editing them, hopefully like I've seen other bloggers say, it will become more natural.

p.s In some of these photos I tried my best to have a straight face, but as I've mentioned before I have a bit of a resting bitch face so I'm not really that mean... its just my face!

Charlotte x

Photography Practising With a Tripod

Hey! I'm so happy! I've nearly finished my degree! I can't believe how quick its gone, but I wont focus on that for this post I just needed to mention it so I could mention that my blogging should get right back on schedule in a week! I'm so excited to be able to post here more often, especially as summer is coming up so i thought i would get some practice in taking snaps. Now I've never used a tripod to take picture but I've been wanting to try it for a while to improve my picture quality and it just so happens I found my Dads (which I hope he remembers saying I can borrow it!). So when a break in the clouds appeared today I ran outside camera and tripod in hand, the light didn't last for long so I didn't take many pictures but I realised how much I love using a tripod! I honestly don't know how I took some shots without one! Anyway, here are a few of the snaps taken :) 

As you can see Jubbley (my cat) was the subject of most of my pictures today, I fed him a treat every time he did something photo worthy so he enjoyed the process to haha. That's how I managed to get him on the table; bribery! I love taking photographs of flowers but there was a distinct lack of blossomed or live flowers so I ended up taking snaps of just the one, I just can't wait to take more pictures on Wednesday while Owen and I go walking, sort of a celebratory were free from assignments! walk haha. Hopefully I will be uploading more in the next week or so, along with a post about the walk. Just a short one from me today but I hope you enjoyed it non the less. 

Charlotte x