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shoes and my manual settings

April 4, 2011

Just thought I’d share my manual settings for this fun shoe pic: ISO – 400 (evening in the shade) shutter – 1/160 second aperture – F 6.3 (larger aperture number to get all in focus) lens – canon’s 35mm 1.4L (lovely wider angle lens) camera body – canon’s 5D mark II And yes…I cropped the…

pics from our daily life

April 1, 2011

I recently did a blog post on my main photography blog where I posted a day at my home with my little family. You can see the full post here but I wanted to share some of my manual camera settings on some of my normal, real life shots rather than from a photo shoot.…

close up photography

March 22, 2011

I am growing to love my macro lens. A macro lens is a lens that allows you to capture images very close up. The other lenses that are regularly on my camera (my 50mm, 85mm, and 35mm) do not allow me to get as physically close to my subject or object and photograph them. This…

taking photographs in a hospital

March 16, 2011

I love taking photographs of a newborn baby in the hospital. I usually just take one camera, my 50mm 1.2 lens and my 100mm 2.8 macro lens. I also throw in my white balance target because hospital lighting is different. (You can get your own white balance target online here.) The light in a hospital…