Manual Mode Monday 4/52

Joining in with Sarah, albeit uploaded a day late!  I took advantage of Pip being occupied with the tessellation shapes and maths manipulatives:

F5.3, 250, ISO 1600

 

I also made use of Pip sitting near the window and I love the way the light is reflected in her hair. I think I was lucky with this shot as a higher ISO setting has the downside trade off re camera "noise."  I just wasn't thinking straight and could've captured the same effect by altering my shutter speed instead, as in all things it's a learning curve.  At least I'm operating in manual mode pretty much all of the time and I'm no longer troubled by fiddling around with the camera settings and observing the different effects.

 

 

 

Manual Mode Monday 2/52

Joining in with Sarah for another photography exercise:

F5.6  1/20 ISO 400

 

I followed a "trick" from another blog in engaging the child in a conversation and snap away.  I preset the camera and then used the back screen rather than the view finder, certainly less intimidating for the person being photographed!  It worked!  Pip who is normally " camera shy" quite happily told me a story of what she was drawing and amongst all the pics taken this is my favourite.

 

 

Later that day I had thought about tinkering with the photo in Adobe Lightroom 4 which I downloaded on a 30 day trial ... well I spent over an hour tinkering and then gave up and went to bed!  I figured that shadows under her eyes (due to fighting a cold) and the tell tale signs of tea around her mouth were par for the course around here!!  I haven't totally given up on Lightroom but in the grand scheme of things I'd much rather be knitting than, photo editing.

 

 

Here are the other shots taken during that time:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks Sarah for the Monday challenge and of course your pic of Posy Pie is as always adorable ... you should hire out your photography services for sure!

 



Manual Mode Monday

I'm joining in with Sarah this week as she shares her enthusiasm for all things photographic.  It was just the tonic I needed as today has been another "black cloud" episode, gotta be the hormones, as in all honesty the kids have been great and for that I'm thankful.

I am very lucky to have a talented photographer husband so he walked me through some of the settings but at the end of the day it was me that took the shot (courtesy of a tripod and the remote control!)

F 5.6, 1/6, ISO 400,

 

 

 

This image was taken late on in the evening so I opted for monochrome as it is the most forgiving re "camera noise".  The aperture was the lowest that this lens would go but Dave has ordered a converter for one of his old lenses that should enable the aperture to drop to 1.8 when necessary.

 

 

Thanks Sarah for lifting my spirits and challenging me to actually pick up the camera and play with the settings.