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Last week I started teaching classes to the kids at The Hutch School. I have had such a good time teaching the kids and the best part is when we walk to the park to take pictures and I get a chance to get to know some of the kids.
This week the most amazing thing happened. While I was talking to one of the girls she told me a little bit about where they are from and how long they had been there. (Most of these kids have parents or siblings being treated at SCCA, Fred Hutch and Childrens) All of a sudden I realized why she looked familiar to me. She (and her sister who is also in the class) are part of the large family I photographed for Soulumination last month. I just LOVE that I get to see these kids again!
This weeks lesson was about Exposure. Not an easy concept so I touched on all of the elements and how you pull it together and then we went outside to play around and understand the concepts better.
I took this picture at ISO 12,000 which is very high. I shot it at night, in a room with royal blue walls mostly light by candles. Definitely NOT ideal conditions! I had to choose an ISO and it is definitely grainy but it adds to the ‘artful’ look to the picture. (Changing it to black and white helped too!)
It was easy to pick a nice fast shutter speed for the soccer picture because there was plenty of light. That helped me stop the ball in mid air. The picture on the right had a shutter speed that was fast enough to capture my girls but the water was much faster so it looks like a sheet instead of water drops.
Aperture priority is my favorite mode to shoot in. I like to use aperture to make parts of my images stand out. In this newborn picture I used a VERY wide aperture. You can tell because the bottom of the foot on top is nice and sharp but the toes on the other foot are already out of focus. That’s a very shallow depth of field!
To try some of these things out we walked to the park and I asked the kids to take the same picture at least 2 or 3 different ways. For example take a picture of a daffodil from the same exact spot but with three different apertures. Same for the shutter speed. What happens when you take a picture of your friend jumping off a jungle gym with two different shutter speeds.
If you are following along you should give it a try! Next week we are talking about composition. Stay tuned!