Blog: Still learning! Wow :)

Hello,

To all my readers. Today I realized something, yesterday I blogged about a playful and educational photo shoot with my cousin. At the end of the post I said "I will post pictures later". Blogger wasn't letting me post any within my blog. Well it's still not allowing me to post within the blog and I wish that it would, but I'll figure something out by the end of the blog. Anyway what I learned today was awesome. ALWAYS check the settings on your equipment before you begin a session. Small but necessary.

I said that my cousins pictures looked better than mine and I really meant it! She used my old baby the Olympus E420 and she shot everything using auto just to get a feel for using the camera. I shot with my Canon, because of course I'm still familiarizing myself with it and its features. Hey it's only 1 month old it's still my little newborn.

Well I received some positive criticism on them which is how I learned the lesson. The night before my cousin was at my house playing with my camera and so was I. I was trying out the different white balance settings and realized that auto was not what I should always be using, however we were indoors so I put the white balance on tungsten light. When we finished with the camera I turned it off without putting the white balance back on auto duhhh.

So for the shoot we did I thought she blended in with the atmosphere to much, she had on a green shirt, blue jeans, pink scarf, and camel colored boots, don't sound to spiffy but it was cute. The sky was a beautiful blue color, it was nice and windy, and for the shoot we decided to use the teal blue poles that were located right in front of a awesome waterfall with clear blue water that reflected off the sky. Back to my pictures, although the day was beautiful my pictures looked very blue. Because I have had no formal training in photography white balance wasn't something I would have thought of.

One of my face-book friends caught it and told me. Thanks, Mr. Carter and that's when I realized that I had totally forgot to change the white balance back to auto when I finished and to check my settings before I began a new session.

That's something I never worried about because I would only change my shutter speed, iso, and fstop. In manual those are all changed on the top of my camera, so I would basically get my settings right and go. Never realized that there was a little icon on top with the settings to tell you what your white balance was set on. Another Lesson hummmm!

So there you are:) My little goof up for the week. For my fellow newbies here is my mistake I'm sharing it with you so that it's a mistake you won't have to make. By the way for those of you who can't see what I am talking about the pictures of and her pictures were taken in the same place just a different area. Mine is a bit bluer than they should be.

To everyone else,
Thanks for reading