I don't use facebook, but

here is an interesting article on Facebook & Your Photographs for those of you who do.

ISO <3

It's amazing what having a proper ISO will do for you.

I wish I'd dropped the shutter speed on this and allowed a tiny bit more DOF, but I still love it.

Light!

In the office/library/craft room there is this ugly, ugly, ugly textured yellow glass window alongside the fireplace. It is long and narrow, and lets in highly directional light that does little to actually illuminate anything but a handful of bricks.

In the interests of snatching it before it went away, I snagged the children out of the backyard for light experimentation. I ignored the ragamuffin tangles and the lunch smeared all over their faces. My lens is not fast enough for quite this low light, so I had to crank up my ISO (ironic, neh?) to get anything workable. I knew that I'd be clipping into the blacks, but I was hoping to get something fairly tenebristic and so went that way rather than clipping into the whites. I think that in the future I can drop my ISO a bit and sacrifice the shutter speed in order to do so. They weren't moving overly much. If I can cram an adult into this little corner, I might have even more success with it.



Things start innocently enough.

It's easy to be patient with your mother when you're busy hamming it up.

The patience is wearing thin.

After ten minutes, the process has melted down entirely.
Imala looks like a bored thug, and Lore has set himself to a fine display of dramatics.
I let them go, made note of my settings, and left it at that.

I am sick again. I have midterms this week. YARG. I blame this:



Damn kids. Get off my lawn.

Taken on the front porch. Yes that's me in his eyes. I've decided to leave myself there.
Evening light. 50mm . f8@1/400
1600 ISO (hence the noisy bits)

On a more positive note, I've learned that much of my frustration with my photographs is due to some default setting in my camera. I keep setting my ISO to 400, and it keeps switching it around. It took me a while to notice, but I was suffering from a great deal of frustration with the noise in my images (such as the one above). Apparently, in addition to setting the ISO, I have to turn off the auto ISO feature. Now whose bright idea was that??

Hopefully I'll feel well enough to shoot something I like and get it printed in time for my QoL assignment. I have not been terribly happy with any of the ones I've taken specifically for this assignment.