Year 2 - Day 33 - February 2

Tonight was my first photography class.  So far, we practiced holding the camera the right way and we learned about the "semi auto" modes on the camera dial.

The picture of a lady's head - portrait mode - Your subject will be nice and crisp, the background will be blurry

Picture of a mountain - landscape mode - Your whole picture will be in focus, foreground to background

Flower picture - Macro mode - You can get really clear close up shots, background won't necessarily be clear

Running Man picture - Stops the action - Not exactly sure when I'll use this...

Mountain with the Star picture - night time portrait - Enables you to take a picture of a person at night time and still have the background show up.  His example was girls on a balcony with Washington DC behind them - with this mode, you could see the Capitol dome in the distance.  With the regular portrait mode, you just saw them and then darkness behind them.

So this week I have to take a bunch of each type and send him the best.  The picture of the water bottle is none of these things.  Rather, it was an example of ... take a picture of something in the room and make sure you can zoom in at least 4 times on your LCD screen and make sure it's still in focus.  Lots of things look like they're in focus on the LCD screen and then when you get home & export to the computer, you realize they're blurry.