Clayton was so excited to finally go on his first trip to Bulls Eye (an indoor range and gun shop). He enjoyed the opportunity to try out a .22 revolver, but can't wait to move on to a rifle instead.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
Saturday, October 10, 2015
I'm finally getting around to posting last week's pictures when I should be working on this week's instead. Oops. Anyway, I am still working through The Unexpected Everyday. None of these pictures have had any editing done to them. I wanted y'all to see them them straight out of the camera.
SS 1/125 | f/4.5 | ISO 6400
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Tip 04: Window Lighting
Prompt: Besides candid moments, it's nice to have a portrait of your child at each age.
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This was my first attempt with window lighting (well, our front door actually). I totally blew it out with too high an ISO, but I LOVE Shelby's silly face here!
SS 1/125 | f/5.6 | ISO 400
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I decided to retry the window lighting challenge a couple days later. I didn't count these in my 365 challenge, but wanted to go ahead and show them here anyway. These were taken inside with the blinds all the way up and close to the window. Paige wouldn't give me a normal smile, so I tried to make her laugh by saying "don't pick your nose" - and she proceeded to stick her finger right there! It made us both laugh!
SS 1/125 | f/5.6 | ISO 400
SS 1/80 | f/5.6 | ISO 400
SS 1/80 | f/5.6 | ISO 400
SS 1/250 | f/5.6 | ISO 200
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Tip 05: Aperture - Shooting Wide Open
Prompt: Capture little details that showcase who your kids are at this age.
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This was my first attempt with Mercy's hands. I used my 18-55mm, and it only goes down to f/3.5. I didn't get that low in this picture because I had zoomed in a little. So I retried with picture below.
SS 1/100 | f/3.5 | ISO 200
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Shelby's little foot on her bike.
SS 1/250 | f/5.6 | ISO 400
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Tip 06: Metering Mode
Prompt: Capture your kids favorite outdoor activity.
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I totally didn't get metering mode at all. The Unexpected Everyday said to check your camera's manual to see how to change/set it, and I couldn't find mine. I'll have to read up on that more another time. I went ahead and took some pictures of my kids playing outside. This one was one of my favorites!
SS 1/60 | f/5.6 | ISO 200
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Tip 07: Focus on the Eyes
Prompt: Capture your child laughing.
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Paige wasn't feeling great, so she certainly wasn't in the mood to laugh. But I wanted to take a picture of my brown eyed girl anyway.
SS 1/125 | f/13.0 | ISO 200
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Tip 08: Limb Chopping
Prompt: Play peek-a-boo to capture true excitement and joy.
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Paige in the spiderweb climb at Lawrenceville Lawn. I didn't follow the prompt at all, but made sure to not chop off the body at any weird point.
SS 1/30 | f/3.5 | ISO 200
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Tip 09: Custom White Balance
Prompt: Capture the quiet peaceful moments while your child sleeps.
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Once again I didn't follow the prompts. I also didn't quite get how to adjust my white balance as well as I hope to. My missing manual would help me figure it out, but I need to find it first. I did take it off auto, and changed it to the different settings I was in. This and metering mode are two I'm going to wait to read more about later (after this challenge is over).
SS 1/30 | f/5.6 | ISO 400
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Tip 10: Reading a histogram
Prompt: Photograph your kids hands at work.
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Cheyenne at Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland. I picked this picture as my one for October 10th because of the histogram. I didn't know how to show it on here without taking a picture of it on my computer and I didn't feel like doing that. But it was in the good range described in The Unexpected Everyday, and I liked the way it looked. :-)
Saturday, October 3, 2015
This week has been an interesting one! My grandma is here visiting from Arizona, so we've been doing a lot more than normal. I also decided to start reading through The Unexpected Everyday and trying my hand at the challenges within it to start using manual mode on my camera. Obviously that's been my goal all along, but I've been scared to try especially with the thought of messing up chances to get pictures I really want. So, it's taken me this long in this 365 project to actually step out and give it a try. I'm pleased to say my camera has remained in manual mode for the majority of this month so far! (I did take it off to get some family pictures with G'ma as I didn't want to try to figure it out with those.) The first four pictures are from the last of September, with the final three being the beginning of my October challenge (keeping up with the book and the 30 days of prompts they give).
I missed Sunday, so this from our trip to the zoo on Monday. I forget what these are called, but they are so pretty!
Bethany and her kids and all mine went down to Zoo Atlanta with mom and G'ma. We had a great time!
On Tuesday it was raining (again) and so we went to see a neat - and free - Lego exhibit at North Point Mall. They had ten large displays plus a few extra smaller ones and a build and play area. This was the Lego model of the White House (a close up of part of it anyway).
Shelby being silly waiting for Clayton to read the Bible with her.
SS 1/125 | f/5.0 | ISO 3200
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Tip 01: Focal Point
Prompt: Change your focal point to focus solely on your child's feet.
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Okay.....here goes the beginning of manual mode pictures. For those of you that have been doing this longer and want to offer some advice, I'll gladly take any you can give me! This was taken indoors on a rainy day. I actually did this prompt the same day as prompt two (as you'll be able to tell), trying to redo the one I didn't really like that I took the day before. Both days were rainy, but I waited too late in the evening the first day for it to turn out even remotely well.
SS 1/125 | f/5.6 | ISO 6400
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Tip 02: Catchlights
Prompt: Capture your child in their favorite dress-up costume or playing pretend.
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While Cheyenne is in her costume, you can't really tell in this picture. And if those are considered catchlights in her eyes, I don't honestly know. Plus I completely blew this out with a far too high ISO (which thankfully Bethany shared with me that a high ISO, while allowing more light, will also produce too much grain). I'm still not sure what caused the funky coloring. The lighting in my house is poor - even more so on a rainy day, but I don't know what exactly I could have changed.
SS 1/125 | f/16.0 | ISO 6400
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Tip 03: Rule of Thirds
Prompt: Capture the things your child does early in the morning.
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This was one tip I actually already knew about. I know this isn't the best of pictures to show it, but I was trying to follow the prompt too, on yet another rainy day, and I ended up using the flash as well. That must be how my aperture got so high, because I know I didn't set it at that! But then I'm still completely new to all this, so I don't know much about how it all works together. Anyway, I couldn't get the lighting right for Shelby's bottom bunk bed, hence the flash. She was in the process of making her bed and I asked her to get dressed first so I could take a picture. She wanted me to take one like that though - covered up with Pinkie Pie!
Friday, April 24, 2015
In April Shelby learned to ride a pedal bike. She had started on a balance bike (a bike with no pedals or training wheels) and was really good at that, and she could also pedal a tricycle. So she finally tried the two skills together and did great!
Shelby was upset because she couldn't start pedaling on her own! (She learned that skill a few weeks later!)
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