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!