Sunday Coffee Break (4:37 p.m.)

Here is my third (and last!) set of indoor photos.

4:30 p.m.: New Room, New Subject

Here is the link to my second set of indoor shots, taken in the kitchen.

A Dark, Dank Living Room (4:15 p.m.)

Here is my first set of indoor photos.

3:50 p.m. on a Cloudy Sunday Afternoon...

Here is the link to my outdoor shots.

White Balance

Our first assignment was to take a series of pictures using each of the camera's white balance manual presets: automatic white balance (AWB); Sun; Clouds; Tungsten Lighting; Fluorescent Lighting; and High Fluorescent Lighting. This was to be done with the flash disabled.

I decided that I would take a set outdoors and a set indoors. My husband agreed to be my model. The outdoor shots were not a problem. But I was really disappointed with the quality of the indoor shots -- even on the AWB and the appropriate (i.e Tungsten) settings. I ended up taking three sets of indoor shots, choosing a new location for the second and third sets, and experimenting with an inanimate subject for the second set.

At the end of it all, I deduced that the flash is just that important... and/OR that my home has some pretty poor lighting!

Hello!

This blog will serve as a method of "turning in" homework assignments for my Fall 2009 Digital Photography class. I love taking pictures, and over the past ?? years have taken some shots that I've been quite pleased with. Still, I know that I could have better results -- and more consistently -- if I learn more about how my camera works. I confess that I find the camera manual pretty mysterious, with its minimalistic explanation of settings and indications for the use of any particular setting. Its diagrams and pictures are also less than intuitive, to say the least.

It's my first time to create or post to a blog, so I'm anxious to see how I like that, too. This semester's experience with blogging will allow me to decide whether I'd like to keep up the blogging after the class is over.

So here we go!