because third grade is the very best year of them all

[topaz]

reading, originally uploaded by qwrrty.

Reading in The Java Room.

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[mhw.livejournal.com]

Aww, sweet!

[(Anonymous)]

What a difference the new camera makes! That's got astonishingly wonderful tonal range. Makes me lustful for a decent camera like the ones you, T, and D! have.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I'm tickled to death with it. But it's clear that a toy like this demands some study and experimentation in order to use it to its best advantage. (I knew that, but now I'm really getting to know it.)

This picture, for example, was one of a series that I took at different shutter speeds to understand how the shutter speed affects the picture. The camera's "auto" exposure took a picture that felt way too bright and brassy. Raising the shutter speed just a bit emphasized the shadows and didn't distract the eye with garish colors.

The other day I took about a dozen pictures of our radar detector at different aperture settings. Turns out that raising and lowering the aperture doesn't really make the picture dimmer or brighter, it just affects the depth of field (so the background is either in sharp focus or completely blurred).

It's lots of fun but I'm gonna need to take a lot more bad pictures before I feel like I know what I'm doing even half the time. :-)