Lisa's Learning Log

So I am having a lot of fun with picture editing as well as taking pictures. I put some pizazz on this one. It's SRT's sunflowers she's been nursing from seeds. I thought I would take a picture of it so you could see how much it has grown since the last time I took a photo of it (the first photo is published in A PICTURE A DAY posting) and didn't like the background so I intensified the highlight slide button which eliminated the ugly backing and turned it white and then I overly saturated it. Hey, this is ART!! Right?


bokeh?

BOKEH!

ANGEL OF LIGHT

It is amazing what one will do to imitate a craft. This photo was taken in my living room with a black blanket draped over a card table and set on it's side and arranged colored Christmas lights to hang down all over the backdrop. The angel was placed on a board on a chair over five feet away. I set my camera on macro and zoomed in close and used a floor lamp to light her up. This is what I got. The hexagon shaped came out that way by chance.
1/4 sec; F/4.5; ISO 64

PHOTOGRAPHING FLAME STUDY: DPS wrote an article about taking a picture of a flame on a candle and gave some ideas on how to do this, so I decided to give it a try using whatever adjustments I needed to make on my Nikon P80. Here is my flame gently blowing in the wind...
1/8 sec ; F/8.0; ISO 64

APERTURE STUDY: I had SRT and KJT sit a few feet apart on our living room floor so I could focus in on SRT and make KJT blurry in the background. It was taken indoors with the natural light coming in from behind me through the sliding glass door to shine on SRT. KJT, because he was in the middle of the room came out darker than I wanted. I should have shone a little more light on him somehow. I should have liked to try it outdoors but my volunteers were not that willing to go out in the cold. I like how they are both doing their own thing, whatever that was, while they posed for me and while doing that, they both happened to be looking down.