Friday, March 30, 2007
Fun with raindrops
Weather has been dreary here. Rain and snow. On the way home brake lights from the car in front of my lit the raindrops on my windshield in an eerie red. That was my inspiration for the following photos. I made my husband drive me around in the rain without using the wiper blades in order to get them. I am very pleased and thinking about having them printed 12X16 as a set.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Heaven
I am in heaven. Photographically speaking ofcourse. My lovely D80 has come in and it is love @ first use for sure. I had a portrait session w/a family on Sunday and took my new baby for a test drive.
I read an exceptional article by Ken Rockwell that really hit home. It discusses how it is important to understand shutter speed, aperture, ISO etc...and how they all work. HOWEVER with over 150 years of photographic technology built into your camera shooting on Manual is probably more work than is needed. So I armed with my D80 I shot this session in "p" mode.
Experiment gone totally wrong. I used auto ISO which allowed me to take pictures in places I could not have before. Which one would have thought was a good thing. However the reason why I would not have chosen those particular places or poses is not because I did not have the ISO to do it, but rather with that ISO came grain which I hate.
The photos came out compositionally well. However they are not crisp, not clear, not the caliber that I would have expected from a professional photographer.
Back to the drawing board, armed with my manual I go forth learning from my mistakes.
Here are a few photos for you...
I read an exceptional article by Ken Rockwell that really hit home. It discusses how it is important to understand shutter speed, aperture, ISO etc...and how they all work. HOWEVER with over 150 years of photographic technology built into your camera shooting on Manual is probably more work than is needed. So I armed with my D80 I shot this session in "p" mode.
Experiment gone totally wrong. I used auto ISO which allowed me to take pictures in places I could not have before. Which one would have thought was a good thing. However the reason why I would not have chosen those particular places or poses is not because I did not have the ISO to do it, but rather with that ISO came grain which I hate.
The photos came out compositionally well. However they are not crisp, not clear, not the caliber that I would have expected from a professional photographer.
Back to the drawing board, armed with my manual I go forth learning from my mistakes.
Here are a few photos for you...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Expecting...
The most wonderful husband in the entire world bought me a Nikon D80 last night! It should be here within a week or so. I am so excited I can hardly contain myself! For those of you who don't shoot Nikon or just haven't heard of the D80 here is a quick breakdown of its features:- Introduced in August of 2006
- 10 megapixels
- 23 jpegs per second
- 2.5" LCD
- A millon great in camera features
I just agreed to take some child photography photos for a woman and I am crossing my fingers that it comes in before then!
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