Slice of Life Saturday: Aperture

I haven't been doing very well with my goal of taking pictures everyday.  The cold makes me hide inside and most of the pictures I take inside, I'm not super proud of.  They are usually of my dogs.

But lately I have been taking pictures for my black and white analog class.  The first assignment that we have done is just the technical assignment.  I did this class in 2003 my freshmen year.  I remember when I took it that I had no idea what I was doing with my camera.  After practicing with all of the functions on my DSLR for the passed year, I already know what is going to happen if I change the aperture.

Let me show you.

This is with an aperture of 4.5.

This is with an aperture of about 16.

Notice the difference? It is in the focus. I love shooting with my lens wide open. And that means that I like to take pictures with my aperture at about 4.5 or 5.6.  I love to keep the depth of field really shallow. It helps me to keep the attention on the subject.

See it again here.

This was with an f/stop or aperture of 4.0

And this one is about 27.  The blurriness comes from the slow shutter speed that I had to use.

I'll even show you it one more time because...well...I love this subject.

4.0 for this one.

And this one is 27.

Hopefully I can make the photos look this awesome in the darkroom.

I hope you enjoyed the examples.  Have a great weekend!

I Heart Faces: Winter Wonderland

This is my third attempt at I Heart Faces.  I've noticed that 90% of the winners use children (And they are amazing photographers), so I thought that I would stretch myself and use a picture of a child.

Check out some other awesome entries here:

Slice of Life Saturday: Editing

I have written about my father before. This is what we look like all the time.

Well, with all of our Christmas presents came a CD of images he captured during the passed year.  I was so excited to get to edit some of his pictures (with his permission and blessing of course).  This weekend, I got to spend my time editing images.

Isn't this girl lovely?

I Heart Faces: Smiles

This is my second entry to I Heart Faces. I feel kind of out of that loop though. Most woman put pictures of their children...I should get me some of those.

This is a pictures of my friend {D} on her wedding day. I normally don't use textures but I thought, "What the heck? Could be fun."

Slice of Life Saturday: Water Proof Camera

For my anniversay in June, my husband and I went to a near by town of Eden. We did some jet skiing and I decided to get a disposable camera. Today I finally got some of the photos developed. Something about these grainy photos makes me feel like it happened in 1995.

Because you have to get at least one finger in the way photo.

Slice of Life Saturday: In San Francisco

Christmas in any big city is an experience but if you can get to experience the season in one of the biggest, you are bound to love it.  San Francisco was great because...hey, it is warm in California, even by the bay.

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I hope all of you had a safe holiday! Now it is time to get into 2011!