For a few days on our trip we stayed with my brother Jake and his wife Amy.  They live in Studio City in the hills above LA and have a really awesome house that I love.  My budding photographer came out and I took some really great shots. These are all straight out of the camera and have had no editing done to them.

I want to frame this picture for my bathroom or something:

Requisite Lucy pictures:

I love all the details in their house:

(I’m so mad this didn’t turn out):

Super Why!

DOF!

And later that day, after meeting Lynn, I snapped this picture out of the sunroof just for fun!

That’s the Hollywood sign

Today I’m thankful for my CAMERA!! I’ve been having so much fun with it! Today I wasn’t feeling well AT ALL but I had solo Lu duty after work because Shaun had volleyball.  Rather than sit inside and watch Super Why! I decided to let Lu play outside while I snapped some pictures.

I wish this was in focus but I still love it!

Model Lu!

What does it all mean?!?!

Airplane!

Hey Mama!

I did take some non Lu shots:

Dang Power Lines!

Spring is coming!!!!!!!!!!!

All pictures were done in M! Yay me!

It’s been cloudy and grey in Boise the last few days.  Actually today there are blue skies but Lucy is at daycare so no pictures yet!

Anyway to take pictures of a moving child in low light (not an easy feat!) I use a higher ISO (my cameras highest is 1600 and I normally use 200) and then a wider aperture (F4.5 on my camera) so that my shutter speed is faster (thanks for the tips Laura!). 

I think my results were pretty good!

The birdie boo!

And I took this one, for fun.

A group of friends and I are reading the book Understanding Exposure to better our photography skills.  I read the first chapter on Saturday night and was excited to play around yesterday.  All of these pictures were taking on M so I figured out the aperture and shutter speed.  It’s been so long since I used a manual camera that I had forgotten how to use the light meter-der!  Now it’s not so hard to take pictures on M!

White Balance:

“Shade”

“Tungsten”

“Cloudy”

“Cloudy” with a different set-up

I was playing with my shutter speed here and thought that this was a pretty picture.

Not the best picture by any means, but I love Lu’s face.

We’re in the thick of potty training!

Lu’s lunch.

Lu’s lunch companions (I wish Mo (the doll with red hair) was in better focus).

Tofu! (Love this picture!)

Cauliflower (playing with the focus):

This is fun!!!