Views of a Steeple

Week 3 more or less brings me to perspective. I've been thinking about what we learned about moving your body instead of your lens or your subject, especially important when your lens won't move. Molly, for you I am going beyond my one or two sentences and including all the settings.

Here's a lovely steeple against a very blue sky with scatter clouds. I'm a little far away. I was taking care to the sun behind me - hadn't I always heard to keep the sun behind me? I had just changed to matrix/evaluative metering to get the sky. F2, 1/3200, ISO 100. Focal point for all pictures is the cross at the top of the steeple.

The next one I got closer, but with the exact same settings.

For the next one, I got really radical. I shot into the sun. I just wanted to see what would happen. The settings were all the same. The blue sky was totally washed out - has a totally different effect.

It was a fun exercise but as we were leaving (and I'm in the back of the van looking at them all in the shade), I decide I have to get out and try one more with a higher aperture. This one is at F6.3, 1/2000, still ISO 100. Very different look and probably my favorite. One rule tossed aside.

This last one is just for fun. Wished I had gotten a little less hat, and a little more second eye but I'm learning, right?

Close Ups and Blurring

Today my new lens came.  My self-assigned assignment was to fill the frame....

and to blur the background.

It's a good thing I have a model who likes to pose.  Shooting totally on manual isn't as easy as it looks.  Composition comes later.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Molly drug me to another fun adventure.  I am determined that this photography class will be the gift that keeps on giving.  This blog is my accountability to take a photo each week and to be very intentional about it.  No more than a sentence or two.  

This photo is from class in a room with horrible lighting and the "crappiest lens" in the world.