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On my camera, next to the viewfinder, is this tiny little dial. It sits there inconspicuously. I know it's there, in the back of my mind, but I never need to use it so it's essentially forgotten.
All of a sudden one day, my viewfinder was blurry. I backed up, thinking I was too close to my subject for it to focus. Still blurry. I took the shot. Hmm, the picture is in focus. What is going on?
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Most of my old posts on Instagram I am still proud of. I like the pictures and they are a style I like, but they are not my style for portraits, which is what I'm doing now.
When I started out, I was mostly taking landscape pictures because that's what was readily available. But even the ones that I'm maybe not so proud of, I'm not deleting. It's possible I might take them down someday, but not now. Today we are going to talk about ISO. If you missed Part 1, you can go read it here. To start, what does ISO even mean? There is actually some debate about that, but a common definition is "International Standard Organization". In a nutshell, ISO is your camera's sensitivity to light.
You've booked the session and you're super excited, but what now? What needs to be done to prepare? I'm going to help you with my top tips and what you can expect from a session with me.
I have three photos framed and sitting on the shelves in my room. They are three photos that I entered in a contest several years ago as I was just starting out in photography. Two of them are still to this day some of my favorite pictures. The lightning isn't perfect or anything, but they have layering and good composition, before I even knew what those were. The third one is interesting. I'll show you.
Shutter speed.
ISO. Aperture. Exposure triangle. When I got my first camera, I didn't have a clue what those were. I'm pleasantly surprised at how good some of my pictures turned out when I didn't know what I was doing and my camera did all the work for me. If you're a new photographer or a mom with a camera and you want to be able to go off automatic mode, I'm going to try and help explain some basics. There was a little card at the end of the prayer labyrinth. It said "I believe God is (blank) enough to handle (blank) in my life".
The idea was that you filled it out and attached it to some netting the camp had put up. There were hundreds of cards already, from the weeks of camp before us. In that moment, I wasn't even sure which of a myriad of things I should write down. So I just took the card home. I needed a logo. Every business needs one.
In high school, I took a graphic design class, so I knew that I needed something that accurately reflected my business and me. It needed to be simple enough to be reproduced and to work big or small. All the details returned to mind as I began to think of what I wanted. I'm a big baseball fan. Well, not necessarily baseball in general, but the Detroit Tigers and my brother's teams. I'm really into everything related to those.
My church is involved with an inner-city church/ministry and this summer, that church got grants to take the kids that come on some field trips. They went to the zoo, Greenfield Village, and a Tigers game. The churches that work with them were asked to provide chaperones to these events. That's the backstory to how I got to attend a historic event.
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Hi! I'm Sarah!
I am a natural light portrait photographer. I've been taking photos since 2014 and would eat a smoothie from Tropical Smoothie Cafe for lunch everyday if I could. Thank you so much for stopping by. I blog about sessions, things I'm learning, stuff in my life, and information for YOU, my client. If you like what you see around the site, I'd love to work with you! I'd also love to connect with you on Instagram. I'm @sarah_jayne_photo :) Archives
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