Eff This!

Today has been a very weird day for my family and me. We have received terrible customer service at multiple places today including from our internet service provider. The icing on the cake is that we got a new modem and nothing got better with our connection. Rather than them doing their best to rectify the situation we now have to wait 2 more days with crappy internet before getting a possible solution to the problem. For the record I have lost my connection 4 times while attempting to write this very short post. This day has officially sucked.

I've worked with the aperture settings today, which are measured in "f stops." Pictures with a smaller aperture setting will have a shallower depth of field which automatically draws the eye to the part of the picture that is in focus. In composition terms it also means that there is a true foreground and background in the photograph. This can be done through the lens on the camera, not the camera itself. For some reason I find that really interesting. I don't know why. The lowest F I can get to with my current lens is 3.5, but it goes up to 32, which makes for really sharp landscape photos but not so good for anything close up or artistic in nature. Portraits are also better with a lower aperture setting.

This picture is of the grass in my front yard. There's nothing particularly exciting about our front yard, so this is probably the best picture ever taken of mediocre grass. I like the focus that you get on the foreground layer of grass while the background is completely, wonderfully out of focus. I'm hoping to apply this concept to portrait photos in the near future rather than just shooting pictures of really small things. 

 

 

 

There were other pictures that I wanted to upload today, but they will apparently have to wait on a less terrible internet evening to be uploaded.