When did I get this camera again? December? And I hate to admit it but I have been stuck on the AUTO mode since then. I have many informative photography books and many informative photography websites bookmarked but then... I get all panicky... I can't keep all the lingo straight: aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance... I go all deer-in-the-headlights and flip it back to AUTO. Until today.
Lesson number one for me today is aperture. I shot these photos on Aperture Priority Mode so I could control the depth of field and let the camera choose the shutter speed for me. Happily. This photo the aperture is set at f/1.8, ISO 160, shutter speed 1/640 sec. I like the nice blurred background. Still need to work on focus though.
Now the aperture is bumped to f/3.2. More of the photo is in focus, less blur in the back...
And then the aperture is f/14. Crappy photo but it illustrates how most of the photo is in focus.
I walked all over my house trying to find ways to experiment with depth of field, trying to create some bokeh. (Bokeh: the blur or the aesthetic quality of the blur, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field.)
Dead Flower Bokeh.
Creepy Spider Bokeh.
Typewriter Bokeh.
Day of the Dead Bokeh.
Well, there you have it: day 1 of my photography experiment.
