Maria Riley

Sunday, March 2, 2014

122/365 Ice and Easy Bake Oven Pretzels

More yucky, winter weather. I took a few shots of the ice and then D and I made not-so-easy pretzels in the Easy Bake oven.

f2.8

1/160sec

ISO 800

121/365 "ettr" and high ISO

More exposing to the right. This one still has a lot of noise, but not as much as I'd expect from maxing out the ISO.

f2.5

1/160sec

ISO 12800

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Shot these in raw. It took a lot more tweaking than I'm used to, and my w/b was super off somehow sooc (Although I used my expodisc, I wonder if I accidentally didn't get it set...I have found that's easy to do with my camera's menu). The w/b sooc was very cool, so I'm hoping I didn't overdo warming them up. These are cropped a little closer than I had envisioned, but I didn't want the distraction of the floor in the shots and D had something in his hands he was playing with to help keep him interested.

f2.8

1/200sec

ISO 800

RAW

f2.5

1/200sec

ISO 800

RAW

119/365

I've been working lately to really get proper exposure, and also trying "exposing to the right" when shooting at high ISO to decrease the grain. I think it's working better for me, although sometimes I have to bring the highlights down just a tad. The only time it hasn't worked well is when there is a lot of strong contrast in lighting, then I tend to blow the highlights too far or get some very off skin and w/b. So, I am going to try to start shooting RAW consistently hoping that will help.

Also, I've been taking lots of photos of the boys just practicing trying to nail down getting tack sharp focus. I have a much easier time judging focus when I view eyes 1:1.

f2.8

1/100sec

ISO 3200

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

118/365 Both boys together..and looking at me!

I didn't get a photo in today, but I did take a lot throughout the day yesterday, so I'm posting from then. It's rare for me to get a photo of them together that isn't super awkward, and even more rare if they are both in focus (even soft focus). I just wish the color of the walls in this photo was not so close to their skin color...I think the b/w conversion helped, but still.

1/160sec

ISO 1600