Lepe

Some people like to relax the day before the spend a whole weekend riding a fixed gear bike around one of the hilliest towns in England. Not me, though. I go on ten mile walks with my family.

In semi-related news; I want an alpaca now please. Do they need a lot of space? Could one live in my garden?

I've completely changed the way I shoot in the last couple of weeks, and I really like it. I changed to black and white RAW which means my camera only shows black and white previews, but I still get full colour RAWs. I also switched to aperture priority with maximum ISO of 6400 (because I can) and minimum shutter of 1/50s. Metering is either spot or centre-weighted. So far, I haven't had a single crappy exposure from it, and I spend a lot less time setting up my camera to take a photo. I'm pretty pleased about this because I've missed so many opportunities tweaking my exposure.

Having black and white previews also cuts chimping back (the photo won't be representative of what comes back, I just use it to check the exposure now and once I trust aperture priority a bit more, I'll hopefully stop all together).