Sunny winter day, 30 minutes before baby melt-down, courtyard behind the apartment building. That'll do.
Tuesday
Annabel + Nick + Aurelie
Sunny winter day, 30 minutes before baby melt-down, courtyard behind the apartment building. That'll do.
Blake (One Year)
Handsome Blake, featured a couple of posts back, turned one a few weeks ago. He's still ridiculously adorable.
Heartbreaker through and through, I tell ya.
Heartbreaker through and through, I tell ya.
Thursday
Fathers Day
Matt and Lorissa requested a few quick Fathers Day* shots with their seven week old twin girls and their other "baby," Jude.
As you can see, Jude was very into it.
Thanks for being totally awesome, guys!
As you can see, Jude was very into it.
The girls, however, not so impressed.
Thanks for being totally awesome, guys!*I discovered recently that it's "Fathers Day," not "Father's Day" or "Fathers' Day." You don't own it, ok dads!?
Friday
Demo: Aperture
I'm trying out a new demonstration-themed blog series. While you can use this as a tutorial, it's main purpose is to show succinctly and obviously what some photog-y terms mean.
First up: Aperture. I felt like I'd invented post-its when I figured out how to manipulate aperture effectively.
Aperture refers to the size of the opening of the lens. Smaller number = larger opening.
Aperture mainly controls depth of field (how much of the image is sharp vs. blurry). The tape measure series below is small, but serves as an effective demo.
@ f/1.8 - "Hey, sweet tape measure."
@ f/11.0 - "Look, there's a hammer too!"
@ f/22.0 - "You guys should really clean up your garden. It's almost summer!"
In order to make only the depth of field appear to change, I also had to change the shutter speed. As the aperture decreases in size (going from left to right in the images above), so does the amount of light (because the opening is smaller). Therefore, the shutter speed needed to decrease (i.e., stay open longer) to keep the images from getting darker as the aperture closed down.
Bam. Now you know aperture. Who knew it could be so easy?
These images and most on my site shot with 50mm f1.8 AF lens. This is an absolutely incredible way to spend $140 if you have it.
First up: Aperture. I felt like I'd invented post-its when I figured out how to manipulate aperture effectively.
Aperture refers to the size of the opening of the lens. Smaller number = larger opening.
Aperture mainly controls depth of field (how much of the image is sharp vs. blurry). The tape measure series below is small, but serves as an effective demo.
@ f/1.8 - "Hey, sweet tape measure."@ f/11.0 - "Look, there's a hammer too!"
@ f/22.0 - "You guys should really clean up your garden. It's almost summer!"
In order to make only the depth of field appear to change, I also had to change the shutter speed. As the aperture decreases in size (going from left to right in the images above), so does the amount of light (because the opening is smaller). Therefore, the shutter speed needed to decrease (i.e., stay open longer) to keep the images from getting darker as the aperture closed down.
Bam. Now you know aperture. Who knew it could be so easy?
These images and most on my site shot with 50mm f1.8 AF lens. This is an absolutely incredible way to spend $140 if you have it.
Saturday
Progress!
It's a long time coming, but I'm making some progress on my new site.
Here's a preview -
Each of those boxes opens up a gallery. It was quicker to get these set up than to upload a bunch of photos into blogger. I highly recommend bludomain.
I'm energized and motivated now, ready to get this thing into real live (no pun intended, website nerds) action. Go me go!
Here's a preview -
Each of those boxes opens up a gallery. It was quicker to get these set up than to upload a bunch of photos into blogger. I highly recommend bludomain.I'm energized and motivated now, ready to get this thing into real live (no pun intended, website nerds) action. Go me go!
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