Saturday, November 29, 2008

Fun with the camera...

Grandma Rita, Mike's mom, has graceously allowed us to borrow her old camera. It is a digital SLR (I'm slowly learning photography lingo :) ) with a couple of different lenses and a big flash. The big thing I wanted to be able to do is take pictures with something in the foreground in focus and the background blurry (I'm pretty sure that's the "f stop" setting, or maybe the apiture setting...whatever). We are not able to do that with our little point and shoot. We've been having a really good time playing. I'm also channeling my inner Jan Vokal and trying to learn Photoshop. She is an amazing photographer and extremely creative (http://www.vokalphotography.com/).

Here are some recent shots... Nikki is actually sound asleep in this one. She goes from frowning to smiling, it's pretty cute...

This is after we came back inside after hanging Christmas lights. She was all bundled up still...
Me messing around with Photoshop...

Hopefully as I get better, I can do these a little faster! This one took the better part of a morning!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrads, Jen and Mike. You have a beautiful daughter and take all the pictures you can, they grow up too fast. Want to wish three happy Holidays.
Chris Tongate
(arioch445@yahoo.com)

Beadbug00 said...

What a sweet little baby girl!! Congratulations on the new addition :)

Jess

Rita said...

Great job on your photography!! Of course, you have an excellent subject! Very creative!

Rita