Easter

Because Easter falls on General Conference weekend, I dressed the kids in their Easter outfits this past Sunday and probably the weekend after too... the last photo is Malaki running to see his picture, his newest trick!

Super Fast

Malaki has figured out that the camera shows the most recent photo on the back of the camera and likes to run to see his photo. Today I was taking pictures of him playing and he ran to see his photo; problem was it was before I was done taking it.

Digital Scrapbooking

I've been thinking about switching to digital scrapbooking and I'm trying Stamping Up's version first. This is my first "playing with the program" try....

Class #3 - Full Manual

I don't think I have ever shot photos in full manual mode before now....the assignment was to shoot in full manual and re-do earlier shots of isolation and showing movement. It still takes time to set up my shots but practice makes perfect, right?

Freeze Frame

Camera! Action! What's your shutter speed? Our second class was on shutter speed, how fast or slow the shutter closes. We demonstrated this by capturing action (without camera movement) which is easier said then done. A tripod became my friend this week. Our homework assignment was 3 shots where we "froze" action and 3 where we showed action with a movement trail.

Action Frozen:




"Trail action"- in my opinion, a little harder to achieve

Photo anyone?

Many of you know that Tomas and I have a photography business and it's really Tomas's baby, I'm just the support staff. I do like helping him set up the shots and at least to me, I think I'm more help then hindrance. I do like picking up the camera and taking a few but I always shoot in full auto and really it's a hit and miss of what I produce. A few weeks back Tomas did a wedding and he handed me a camera (he set it up) and I just snapped away and I actually got a few great shots. And so the passion was born and I finally gave in to Tomas and agreed to take his photography class that he's been teaching at a local Parks and Rec. Our first lesson was on aperture, controlling the iris of the camera. In a nut shell, creating an isolation of a subject in a photo. We have all seen great shots of a person, or a flower and everything around it is fuzzy or out of focus. I walked around for 2 days and in my mind took some great shots but here are the ones that I turned in to my teacher :)

Olivia's Foot

Olivia is still not walking, she says it hurts and that it pulls at the scab. Tomorrow will be 2 weeks. By the way, I took these cool pictures of it :)