Friday, February 19, 2010

Week 4, Part Two

These three photos were taken of the same subject (my daughter, Emma) at 3 different times of the day. She was sitting on the sofa next to a window.

The first photo was taken at 10:00 AM (in Vermont, month of February). Camera settings: f 2.8, shutter speed 1/15, no flash and only natural light.


The second photo was taken at 3:30 PM (again in Vermont, month of February). Camera settings: f 2.8; shutter speed 1/10; overhead, incandescent lighting and no flash.



The third photo was taken on the same day at 8:23PM. Camera was set to automatic with auto flash. Incandescent, overhead light.




I'm not sure that I love any of these shots. My point and shoot camera can be quite frustrating when shooting indoors, and manually adjusting the settings only helps so much. It's cool to see the difference lighting makes on a photo, though. Which photo looks best to you?

3 comments:

Derek Murphy said...

Karen,

I like the first photo with the morning natural light. I know that your daughter's face is a bit shadowed in that picture, but her skin tone and color seem the most natural in that photo to me and my untrained eye...

Murph

mrflood said...

I like the second one--she just seems to be glowing. I have discovered this week that I am not a huge fan of flash photography. I always thought that was the way to go in the past. Live and learn...

Cyndie's Blog said...

I too like the morning picture with the natural light. Nice job!

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