What a difference a week makes!

One week ago, I knew a enough to take some decent pho­tos. I’ve had my DSLR for nearly a year now and I’m really happy with how far I’ve come with it. When I signed up for a new pho­tog­ra­phy class over at Scrap Girls, I knew it was just what I needed to take the next step in my skill level and to really get seri­ous about know­ing what I was doing behind the lens.

Last Thurs­day was our first class. The focus was on light­ing and how to achieve good light­ing. Ever since then, my mind has been rac­ing with how to get good light­ing in our home, what new toys/tools I want to get and count­less of other ques­tions I had for our awe­some instruc­tor and fel­low classmates.

Like any class, we had a home­work assign­ment for the week. It was to learn where in our house dif­fer­ent types of light­ing appeared and how to use them when we take pho­tos. In par­tic­u­lar, using the front door open to have nat­ural light­ing on our sub­jects and play­ing with all that goes with that.

Well, I decided that since it was a bit cold to have our front door wide open (and the fact that our house faces South), I would take advan­tage of the 2 large slid­ing glass doors we have that face the East. So, I caught some decent light this morn­ing thanks to the over­cast skies, and these were my results. Major props to Tyson for being a happy, coop­er­a­tive sub­ject this morn­ing. Amaz­ing what a lit­tle bit of bribery can do!  Here are some of my favorites, but if you want to see all of them, you can see them here.






This is my new favorite photo of him I think.

And…we’ve lost him!

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