Yesterday we woke up to negative 13 degrees and icy windows…but I spotted the sun coming up and thought I’d play with my Raynox.

And then I had a very special delivery later that frozen day.

Zan accuses me of loving my camera more than I love him….that’s not really true, but I must admit that I have fallen in love with it all over again…or maybe I’m just in love with that little “M” on the dial…*sigh*

So, I took this photo the other day….and I hated it.

It was just so blahhhh.

But I really wanted to like it, so I played.

Sprayed:

Red:

Black and White background:

High pass (whatever that means!):

And, Old Paper:

I *think* I like the sprayed and old paper best….any thoughts?  Was it even worth saving do you think?

I have learned:

* what a correct exposure is

* what aperture is, where to find it, what it does, and how to change it

*  what shutter speed is, how it is related to aperture and ISO (oh, yeah, I learned what the heck that is too!) , where to find it, and how to change it

* how to do that “isolated subject” thing

* how to use my Manual Setting!!  Yay!

Here’s a practice photo with an aperture f/5.6  and shutter speed of 1/25th second

And the same shot, with an aperture of   f/22 and a shutter speed of 1.6 sec.

And who knew that the smaller the f/ number, the bigger the opening?  And that changing one thing necessitates changing another???  Crazy I tell ya!  No wonder I’ve been clueless for so long! 

So cool!