I Heart Faces - Pets

This week over at I Heart Faces is Pet Challenge!  Well - I have to say - I have thousands of pictures of doggies!!!!  So trying to pick one was very very difficult.  I actually ended one with one that isn't my puppy - but his brother - out on a trip to play with his brothers.  Here it is:

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I Heart Faces - Beautiful Eyes

Another I Heart Faces Challenge - this weeks challenge is Beautiful Eyes.

I have so many pictures of my kids and their crazy beautiful eyes - here is my little man from this summer.

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Shutter Speed at the Fair

We went to the fair today - and I had way to much fun playing with my camera - go figure!

Here after the girls were done on the swings - I took some pictures at different shutter speeds:

Photo 1: taken at 1/30 sec at f/22

 Photo 2: taken at 1/50 sec at f/22

Photo 3: taken at 1/80 sec at f/22

Photo 4: taken at 1/125 sec at f/14

Photo 5: taken at 1/200 sec at f/11

Photo 6: taken at 1/1000 sec at f/5

Photo 7: taken at 1/2000 sec at f/3.5

Then I played with my oldest on spinning rides - panning on a slow shutter speed.  

This one was at 1/40 sec and f/11, ISO 100, at 55mm

This one was on a different ride - and I think my favorite of the day.

Taken at 1/30 sec, f/13, ISO 320, 75mm

You never know when will be a good learning experience - get out your camera - take it off of auto and have fun!

Doggie shoot today

My husband insisted that our doggie had a photo shoot today - so here are some highlights.

 

New Perspective

So - Day 3 - did pretty good - kitchen is still clean - ate three well balanced meals - but - the nice large glass of red wine and dark chocolate bar - may have set me back.

So - onto camera day!  I love getting out the camera - I took an obscene about of pictures tonight!  To narrow it down to like 45 isn't bad.  Tonight I was playing with perspective.  I was trying new settings and putting the camera in a perspective that I don't normally shoot at - on the ground - and then playing with the focal length.

Here are the first two I took tonight.  I pretty much shot blind and put the camera on the grass.

I really like this one - my middle holding her Lie Lie (lion) very mysterious.

One of my favorite from the night.  He looks so small in the big world.  The exposure was really good - getting the blue sky and clouds, the greens are good too.

This perspective was a little different than most of them - but this one was fun - I shot it at 18mm at my head. I know you don't normally shoot someone so close at 18mm because it distorts them - but - I kind of like that he looks distorted - adds to the charm.

The one on the left I think is fun - Mikey is out of focus in the far right hand corner.  The wrong thing is in focus - I like it.

This is fun too - at first I was upset that the corner of the picnic table was in the picture - but it gives the picture depth - I like....

Adding perspective with my kids at this age shows a big picture - makes them look so small in this big world.

I like this one - it's a lot closer - it was probably at 105mm from where I was vs. the 18-35mm that I was shooting at most of the time.  But - it gives yet another perspective.

Don't ask - I really love feet.  I like that the grass up close is in focus - and she is slightly out of focus.

This to me shows how small and crazy my little munchkins are! 

This looks dreamy to me - the tree's framing our free curb side swing. She is tucking in her lie lie (lion stuffed animal).  So sweet - innocent.  

On to the swingset!  I have a ton of pictures of them on the swings - but not from this vantage point.

Weeeeeee.......

The one on the right seems so pure to me....

Love this.....

At one point he was sitting in the truck - I missed this shot though.

This one makes me smile - I kind of like the totally out of focus of everything but the grass in front. 

A lost army man found in the sandbox.

This one if you don't look close - you'd miss my little man - but here's there - tiny in this big world!

I am having a lot of fun playing with my camera.  And I got a new lens - coming in the mail soon!!!

This spontaneous exercise really taught me to stop - and look at things from a different angle.  Not just with a camera in my hand - but with life in general.