Jeff’s Photographic Adventure

Here are a couple of photos I took last week that I kind of like. (Click on the image to bring up a full-size shot)

The first is just a monochrome of a flower outside my place. Not the cleanest picture or best composed shot, but it was one of my first real successes with playing with depth of field.

• Aperture : f5.6
• Shutter Speed: 1/40 second

This next image was taken at a friend’s house that same night. I wanted to mess with white balance settings and get a neat blur effect off of the pair playing speed scrabble, while yet allowing some focus on the words they were building. I think I did alright, thought there is certainly a bit of camera shake.

• Aperture: f5.6
• Shutter Speed: .3 seconds

These next two pictures are of the same subject… I LOVE cheesecake, and we had some over the weekend. I thought it would be a good chance to play with aperture again, but to see if I could get a really solid focus on two different parts of the same subject (note that the focus is different between the two images; the first image has a focus on the cheesecake itself while the second has more of a focus on the chocolate chips on top – which were delicious).

• Aperture: f5.6
• Shutter Speed: 1/40 second

• Aperture: f4.5
• Shutter Speed: 1/40 second

Let me know what you think. Again, this is my first batch and they’re unedited, so keep that in mind – but anything constructive is definitely appreciated!

I feel like I need to get a post up right now, just to validate the existance of the new blog.  I’ll be posting some pictures within the next few days, so hopefully there is something there worth looking at.  I haven’t yet invested in Photoshop or another serious photo editor, so what you see at this point is going to be directly from the camera with no modification as of yet.  I’ll eventually get there on the photo editing front, but one step at a time, right?

I recently returned from a trip to Utah, and I have a couple pictures from the trip.  I honestly did not take as many photos as I would have liked before leaving, but the trip was more about relaxing than it was getting up into the mountains for a photographic adventure…  Again, I’ll post some stuff soon.