For Mother's Day, hubby took me to the local electronics store and let me pick out a new camera. I've been wanting one for a while, but finally took the plunge and bought a digital SLR camera. (I have no idea what that means, so don't ask!) Now that I have a fancy camera, I figured I better learn how to use it. So I found a link to Two Peas in a Bucket, which offers a FREE 12 week Photography class online, with reading materials and "homework" each week. Here is a link to the classes if you are interested.
Can you see the difference? The first picture the only thing in focus is little leaves. The picture on the right has the leaves in focus, as well as the branches all around the leaves.
But the more fun pictures are the ones I took today. Today the lesson was on shutter speed and ISO. ISO has to do with lighting...higher ISO for darker areas (think indoors) and lower ISO for brighter areas (sunny day outdoors). And then there is shutter speed...the higher the number, the faster the shutter closes. High numbers help freeze and capture action. So the homework was to take a picture of water from the kitchen sink falling onto something. Again because of bad lighting, my homework didn't turn out the best, but I ended up with a really cool picture anyway! I had my ISO set really high since I didn't have any natural light.
I had to do some lightening in Photoshop for the high speed picture, but hopefully you can spot the difference.
But the true work of art came when I decided to use the flash to try to get more light.
So far I have learned about aperture and ISO and Shutter Speed. Adjusting the aperture adjusts the amount of the picture that is in focus.My pictures didn't turn out very well because I didn't have good lighting. But here are the pictures I took for homework:
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| Low Aperture = Small area of focus |
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| Large Aperture = Large area of focus |
Can you see the difference? The first picture the only thing in focus is little leaves. The picture on the right has the leaves in focus, as well as the branches all around the leaves.
But the more fun pictures are the ones I took today. Today the lesson was on shutter speed and ISO. ISO has to do with lighting...higher ISO for darker areas (think indoors) and lower ISO for brighter areas (sunny day outdoors). And then there is shutter speed...the higher the number, the faster the shutter closes. High numbers help freeze and capture action. So the homework was to take a picture of water from the kitchen sink falling onto something. Again because of bad lighting, my homework didn't turn out the best, but I ended up with a really cool picture anyway! I had my ISO set really high since I didn't have any natural light.
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| Low Shutter Speed |
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| Fast Shutter Speed |
I had to do some lightening in Photoshop for the high speed picture, but hopefully you can spot the difference.
But the true work of art came when I decided to use the flash to try to get more light.
1 comment:
photography is the best. you'll get the hang of it in no time.
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