What Marrah did while I took pictures...

And I totally forgot to add one of my little gal, Marrah, and what she was doing while Mommy was so diligently doing her homework... hehehe... so here she is...

Task 2

This one turned out pretty good... interesting to look at anyways... I didn't get a chance to do the Bokeh twist but maybe next time I'm out for a walk with a napping baby...

Disable your flash, set your camera to MF, AV f3.5, ISO200. Find a long edge - your table, a countertop, the fence in your backyard, a bannister, a windowsill. Standing in the same spot at one end, manually focus so that you have 3 images with distinctly different focal points along that straight edge. If you're feeling adventurous and want to take your shooting to the street, this would be a really fun one to do in a grocery store in the soup aisle or in the library along the bookshelves! If you really want to challenge yourself, find a table or countertop that has a distinct end - something about 6-8 feet long. Try adjusting your aperture so that the entire length of the edge is in focus, but drops off suddenly at the end so everything beyond he table fades off into Bokeh oblivion...

Task 1

Okay, here we go... baby is sleeping (yay!) so Mom has time to post her results from her DLS Exercises:

For task 1: I used baby toys in my kitchen simply because that was the most readily available item and a tidy enough area to set them up in - not necessarily pleasing to the eye but it works... Had to use a tripod to deal with camera shake but it seemed to help and I didn't have to up my ISO. The pictures aren't perfect but they are done...

TASK 1

Find a nice bright spot to take a picture - a kitchen, bedroom, or living room floor with lots of natural light would be ideal, or this could be done outside. Set up a series of 7 similar or identical items in a row, each about 12 - 18" apart from each other. Be as creative as you like - they could be anything from beer bottles to baby bottles, Hotwheels, Barbie shoes. You could make a train of some sort with your kids. You could put pinecones on the snow. You could ask 7 friends to stand in a row. Really, the sky is the limit...

Disable your flash, set your camera to MF, AV f3.5, ISO 200. (Remember, your zoom may need to be at the widest angle to get to f3.5!) Standing at one end of the row, focus on the object closest to you. Take one picture. Note how many of the objects are in focus at f3.5, and adjust your aperture one f-stop at a time until ALL the objects are in focus, WITHOUT readjusting your focus. How many f-stops did it take you? Note the light and what the camera set your shutter speeds at - did you have to deal with camera shake at all? If you had trouble getting pictures with higher f-stops, what would your options be for increasing the shutter speed without altering the depth of field? Hint - law of reciprocity only has 3 parts: light intensity (aperture) sensitivity (film speed) and duration (shutter speed).

My favourite photos from my last photography lesson...

Hello all,

Thought I would post a few of the photos I had taken at my last photography lesson... so here... have a peek!

P.S. Hope, I am still trying to work on the exercises... but fussy babies make homework difficult! ARRGGHHH! (hehehe)

My first post...

Hello all,

Well here is my first official post. I am taking photography courses and our instructor encouraged us to start a blog to showcase our pictures and how things are going so i thought "why not?" and here it is.

Feel free to take a look at my pictures and critique them. I'm still learning so they are not going to be perfect but I can always use some constructive criticism. I've added a couple pics that I have taken of my DD and DH that I like... DD is getting tired of me taking pictures of her but now that I've turned off the AF flash, she's a little happier! (Thanks Hope!)