Category Archives: Photography

Babies to Big Boys

  By Amanda | February 10, 2013 - 7:21 pm | , , ,
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Just a few short days after we discovered this, Will took it upon himself to try to climb out of his crib.  Monkey see, monkey do! After some deep breaths and maybe even a few tears we headed out, brought some big boy bedding (and a video monitor) and converted the boys cribs into toddler beds. Just like that!  In the blink of an eye my babies are big boys.  I can’t believe it.  I remember, like it was yesterday, the first time I laid them down in those cribs.  How teeny tiny they were and how huge the crib … Read more →

Photo Friday – Putting it all Together

  By Amanda | February 8, 2013 - 5:46 pm | ,
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Together, aperture, shutter speed and ISO make up what is called the exposure triangle.  And your job, when you shoot manual, is to make those three settings work together to give you a properly exposed image with the desired affect. Let’s review- Aperture: A low F-stop is a large opening that allows alot of light but provides a shallow depth of field.  A high f-stop is a small opening that limits the amount of light but provides a deep depth of field where more of your image is in focus. Shutter speed: A slow shutter speed exposes your image to … Read more →

Clickin Moms Blog Circle – Close Up Portraiture

  By Amanda | February 2, 2013 - 8:00 am |
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I am part of a really fun project with thirteen other talented and wonderful women.  We met on Clickin Moms and are participating in a 2013 blog circle.  Every month we each will post about a given theme and link to each other.  I look forward to getting to know each of these women a little better over the course of this year and I hope you’ll join me by clicking through our blog circle.  The talent in this group of women is amazing.  You will be blown away! This month’s theme is close up portraiture. I just adored this … Read more →

Photo Friday – ISO

  By Amanda | February 1, 2013 - 1:18 pm | ,
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So far we have talked about Aperture and shooting in Aperture Priority mode. We’ve talked about shutter speed and shooting in shutter speed priority mode. There is a third way to control light with your camera and that is ISO.  ISO, in digital photography, is how sensitive your camera’s sensor is to light.  The lower your ISO is the less sensitive your sensor is.  The higher the ISO the mores sensitive it is.  Higher ISO settings are generally used in low lighting situations to give you the ability to increase your shutter speed. The standard ISO setting is 100 and … Read more →

Photo Friday – Shutter Speed Priority

  By Amanda | January 25, 2013 - 11:26 am | ,
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This is the second of my photo Friday posts.  Last time I talked about turning your camera off the automatic setting and playing with aperture priority.  Aperture priority was  my preference when I first started playing with my camera. However, there is another setting that allows you some control over the look of your final image while the camera figures out the rest of the settings. Today I’m going to look at shooting in shutter speed priority.  Shutter speed priority let’s you adjust the shutter speed while your camera figures out what the correct aperture is to give you a … Read more →