THE JOY OF LOVE, DAY 12

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 12 - THE EYES. Weeb has great eyes. Again, Cannon PowerShot SD1000 point and shoot camera, limited options. But for late afternoon, indoors with little light, I did what I could. I used a tripod (which she kicked almost continuously), my camera's battery was dying (which prompted her to dilly dally and wiggle about as a result of my spazzy urge to hurry up and sit still), I was losing the natural light (and man, I hate high ISO with this camera - the noise is some kind of horrible!). I cannot wait for the weather to get nicer so I can photograph outside. Seems that outdoor photography and digital macro are quite good with this camera. I mean, it couldn't possibly be that the photographer needs to do a tad more learning. Right? Yeah, shush!

The lower photo is a much better shot of her face, but the photo came out really noisy in the edit and was too blurry, otherwise. Need to sharpen my sharpening skills. HA!

Wow, looking at these again online, they are REALLY grainy. I had an ISO of 400, too. I think it was just that they were a bit blurry (kid will not sit still!) and the sharpening has this effect. I need to learn some new techniques and possibly just try again with more light.

Edit to add: I'm adding this photo that I took the other day. Honestly, it captures the eyes much better and edited better than the two previously posted.