Homework Assignment Week 5 - Indoor Lighting

This week was a bit of a struggle for me.  The lighting in my house isn't the greatest and the windows that i do have good lighting coming through have blinds on them that can't be raised so I have shadows from the slats on everything.  I did manage to get a picture of my youngest daughter that I think turned out pretty good.  I had her stand in the doorway facing the window that was about 10 feet across the room.  I know that my shutter speed is lower than it should be but I wanted to keep the ISO @ 400.  Since she was facing the window I didn't have any shadowing and my walls and door frame are white so I had the natural reflectors.

ISO - 400

Aperture - f/4

Shutter Speed 1/50

This next picture I had her stand in the front doorway to get her silhouette.  I had my aperture down as low as it could go and still couldn't get the background to blur any so the cars that are parked across the street are a bit of a distraction.

ISO - 400

Aperture - f/4

Shutter Speed 1/4000



 

I didn't get a still life.....SORRY!

Week 4 Homework

 
This side light photo was actually taken by accident just about a week ago.  This little girl was turning one and I was having a hard time keeping her in position to take a few pictures before we started the cake smash photos.  She kept crawling away, into the light.  I finally gave up and just started shooting.  I was very pleased with the outcome.

Side Light 

I didn't have a very pretty subject to try and get a sunburst picture with so I used the skyline view from my front yard.   This picture has not been edited.  It is straight out of camera.

This picture is a little different.  I think the lighting was back lighting but it was also coming in from the side.  It has not been edited and is straight out of the camera.  I have no idea why her left eye looks so funny and dark blue.  I think that the sun spots are ok, but the focus isn't the best on the subject. 

Back light / Side Light
Aperture f/8
Shutter Speed 1/800
ISO 400

This picture was taken as a little boy was walking through a little tunnel.  I like how it turned out but I wish his legs would have shown up better.   

Silhouette

Aperture f5/6
Shutter Speed 1/800
ISO 400

Sunburst

Week 3 Homework

It's been one of those hectic weeks.  So, I'm going to apologize in advance for the totally BORING pictures you're about to see. 
In this first picture I was trying to use the grout lines to line up this shot.  Does it look a little underexposed to anyone but me?? 

This next picture is my rule of thirds picture.  I have it posted twice.  Once up close and another full body (scarecrow body).  I wanted the depth of field in the picture but with the full body shot I could never get it.  With my 50mm lens full body seemed so far away, so I went and got my 18-55 mm lens and took the full body shot.  It has an aperture of 4.5 but I still could never get and DOF on this shot. Any suggestions?

Ok, I have a real model now.  This adorable little boy belongs to a friend of mine.  Seems like everytime the camera was infront of him he would turn and run the other direction.  I did capture him peaking at me through the fence though.  So this would be my Framing Shot.

Week Two Homework

Should I have been able to get the colors to match up in the top two photos?  I kept trying but nothing seemed to work.

After several attempts of trying to get a good focus on my dogs, this is what I ended up with. 

Wanted to try something in the house so I took a picture of our ceiling fan. I love the implied photo. I wish I could say the same about the frozen one. I tried to freeze the motion, but was having a hard time getting enough light into my camera. As you can see I have my ISO all the way up to 6400 and still too dark. How do people shoot indoors at ISO 800????? I just don't get it? :(