My New Toy

Hello?  Is anyone still out there?  After 3 1/2 months of not posting on the blog...here I am!  I got out of touch with posting because I lost our digital camera (oops!), so I had only a few pictures that I had taken on my iPhone for a few months.  Then, for my golden birthday in late December, Aaron surprised me with a wonderful gift - a shiny new DSLR camera!  I had only used point-and-shoot cameras before, so I was excited about the chance to take some more creative pictures.  Thankfully the camera came with four classes so I could learn how to use it; so for I've taken two.  I've had a lot of fun playing around with the camera, but I still have a lot to learn!

So, going forward, the blog will still be for family updates, but it will also be a forum for me to participate in some online photo link-ups. 

I will get a lot of use out of my new toy to take pictures of William, and of his new baby brother/sister due to arrive in early August!

This week I am participating in You Capture, and the topic is "Circles".  This was an easy topic for me to photograph because William's prized possession is none other than a roll of blue painter's tape! (seriously...not at all joking).  You may notice that the roll of tape has seen better days; that is because it has been dropped in the bathtub and chewed on by a friend's dog, among other things.  So, without further ado, I reveal my first photo experiment on my new camera.  Bear with me and Enjoy!  (if any of you photographers out there have any tips/advice, please feel free to comment!)



My boy and his prized possession.
(1/200, f/4.50, ISO 3200)



Shutter speed way too slow on this one, but it still turned out kind of cool!  I mean, I totally did that on purpose.
(1/8, f/6.30, ISO 400)

 

We live in an old house with poor lighting, so I had to raise the ISO, but then the image gets a bit grainy.  Arg!  I've been trying to avoid using the flash indoors, but maybe I need to?
(1/200, f/5.60, ISO 3200)

 

The only item William will allow in his stroller is his roll of tape (and occasionally his favorite book).  If you put a baby in there he will immediately throw it on the floor.  What a great big-brother-to-be!
(1/160, f/3.50, ISO 1600)

Here are some other circles I found around the house.  I tried to utilize window light that I learned about in a tutorial over at The Creative Mama.  I would love to use William as my subject for the window light photos, but he won't stand still in front of the window long enough for me to take a picture!