I am celebrating right now!!! I just spent over two hours absorbing details about shutter speeds, f-stops, metering and ISO. If I don't practice all that I've just learned, I'll probably forget it all, but I have lots of good notes so hopefully I'll retain some of the information!.
The "class" was at Ryan's former pre-school teacher's house which is near a city park. What's best about this whole thing is that I got some family pictures out of the deal. After sitting around her kitchen table and seeing all of the information on paper, we went to the park (where I had Mike meet us with the kids) to practice taking pictures. My family ended up being the "subjects" while the rest of the group took pictures, adjusted their settings, figured out the best lighting and messed around with keeping everything in focus versus blurring the background. In the meantime, I have 5 ladies with a dozen or more pictures of my family on their cameras! Some of them turned out REALLY cute...I can't wait to get my hands on them.
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Here are some of the pictures I took while playing around with my camera. Not on "auto" - I was using manual settings, people! I feel like such a hot shot...
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(Keep in mind that the kids are actually swinging while I was taking the pictures. The shots of the kids are a little dark, but I was still practicing.)
#60 is checked off of my 101 Goals in 1001 Days list!
The "class" was at Ryan's former pre-school teacher's house which is near a city park. What's best about this whole thing is that I got some family pictures out of the deal. After sitting around her kitchen table and seeing all of the information on paper, we went to the park (where I had Mike meet us with the kids) to practice taking pictures. My family ended up being the "subjects" while the rest of the group took pictures, adjusted their settings, figured out the best lighting and messed around with keeping everything in focus versus blurring the background. In the meantime, I have 5 ladies with a dozen or more pictures of my family on their cameras! Some of them turned out REALLY cute...I can't wait to get my hands on them.
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Here are some of the pictures I took while playing around with my camera. Not on "auto" - I was using manual settings, people! I feel like such a hot shot...
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(Keep in mind that the kids are actually swinging while I was taking the pictures. The shots of the kids are a little dark, but I was still practicing.)
#60 is checked off of my 101 Goals in 1001 Days list!
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6 comments:
I like the last shot of Mike ...good bokeh!
How fun! Someday if I have the patience, maybe I'll do something like that.
Mmmmmm, nah! I'll just pay you to use your talents for me. :-)
seriously, very cool, chica.
xoxoxoxxo
Good for you! I would LOVE to take a class! I wish someone around here with knowledge like your friend offered it!
Wow. That's so neat Katie! I have a camera on my Christmas list and hope to take classes so I can learn how to use it. What kind of camera do you have?
Love this! So I want to enroll as one of your students via online since I just bought the same Canon...I think. It is the Rebel XSi. My lenses are 18-55 and 55-200. I would seriously LOVE any insight! katieksu at kc dot rr dot com!
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