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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Aperture, F-Stop, Focal Length, ISO, Shutter Speed

All are new vocabulary words for me as I venture beyond the automatic settings on my Canon Rebel T2i camera, which so far I completely adore for the speed and clarity of the photos. But the auto settings just aren't cutting it for me. I had that with my point & shoot Sony compact 8MP camera (minus the fast shutter speed). There are so many buttons and dials on the new camera, it's pretty intimidating. So I started fiddling with it a bit last night, and boy, was I a kid in a candy store! This thing rocks! It also helped when my 3 year old subject became much more cooperative after I started paying him in mini marshmallows.

These next shots were taken with no flash and it was almost pitch dark with an overcast night sky (no tripod either, unfortunately).

2 comments:

Aimee said...

Super cute photos of James, such a smiley kid.

Eileen said...

Your kids couldn't be any cuter! I just want to kiss them to pieces! Hope to see you soon!
PS one of the newer fire fighters went to Cal Poly and played softball out there too. If you all come out this way, we'll all have to get together! Oh and he worked at the Apple Farm when we were out there for your wedding!