The girls

The weather was so nice this weekend, so we did a quick little photo shoot outside.

Ella pictures

Ella has been the subject of my photography homework this week since I was sick all weekend and our evenings have been too hectic to take pictures of the girls. Hopefully I'll get a chance to practice with them soon. Plus, they lose patience with me after a few minutes! Here's a few pictures where I was playing with the Aperture to get shallow and deep Depth of Field.

You'll also notice in the first 2 pictures our new living room! The floors have been refinished, and the wallpaper was removed!

Excuse the crooked picture (not intentional), I was laying on the floor...

Photography Class

In March, our anniversary present to each other was a DSLR camera (Cannon Rebel T3i). And since I know nothing about cameras, I've only been using the Automatic setting to take pictures which seems a little like a waste.

So I signed up to take a 4 week photography class given by a local photographer. The class meets every Tuesday night from 6:30 to 8pm during September. We're halfway through the course and I've already learned a lot. Here's the results from our first photo assignment:

Slow Shutter Speed:

Fast Shutter Speed (I love her hair):
 

Shallow Aperture:


Deep Aperture: