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.