Willette Photography & More is offering a free, online photography class this February, called The Joy of Love. There's still time to sign up, if you're interested.
Lesson 01 - WHAT THEY DO. We are supposed to take a picture of a loved one, doing something. I tried to incorporate natural light as the tutorial was about finding the light in your home and catchlights.
As I've mentioned in several of my latest blog posts, I have a Cannon PowerShot SD1000 point and shoot camera. I don't have much control over it, as it seems. I do have several options, one being adjusting the ISO to 1600 (max).
Aside from capturing a picture of Weeb doing something she likes to do (playing with her rainbow Slinky), I think the picture is a fail.
I can't adjust shutter speed or aperture, and the flash bugs my daughter's eyes. The ISO set at 1600 to try and deal with fading natural light just resulted in a massively grainy shot. No matter where I tried to get the picture, and from what angle, we have too much clutter in the house to be able to get a shot without a million things in the background. I also have a model who is not keen on modeling at the moment.
I won't lie, I'm frustrated and thinking this hobby is pointless, and suspecting I don't have the talent or patience to make this worth anybody's while. I thought this hobby might be good to interest me and Wonko over the dreary winter months here, but with dreary months, come lack of natural light, which I think is my only hope at good photos.
I'm determined to learn something, at least.
This photo has not been edited at all, aside from a 6"x4" crop, @ 72ppi.
It's a beautiful photo. And you can't help the lighting. The higher your ISO the more grainy your photo will be. This would probably be equally lovely and less "noisy" to you in black and white.
ReplyDeleteI thought about doing it black and white, but I wasn't sure if she did an automatic black and white with her camera or if editing with Photoshop was 'allowed'. I know she did that with the examples that were emailed, of her husband in his office.
ReplyDeleteI'm just hoping to learn enough tips to be able to help when we're outdoors and taking pictures, if nothing else.
When I'm feeling a bit more patient, I think I might try to learn more about the good camera.