Foto Friday II: Aperture
It’s that time again – time to announce the next Foto Friday topic! As mentioned in the unveiling of Fotography Friday, there are no real rules here, we just want to encourage people to learn about the advanced features on their camera. Do some research and write up a post about it. Include the FF logo if you want and upload the pictures to our Flickr group. But only if you want to. No need to contact us to let us know you’re participating (but you can if you want).
For February, the Fotography Friday topic is:
APERTURE PRIORITY
So get out there and learn about aperture. For starters, I’d recommend this 4-part serious from PW) and this post from the Digital Photography School.
If you missed it, but sure to check out my post from FFI – Flash.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
I am totally addicted to learning anything/everything about cameras now. I blame you! haha. I think macro is my favorite setting. Do you have a macro lens or do you use your kit lens+macro setting? Thanks for putting up with all my questions!
/Clara
Ha. Sorry or You’re Welcome 🙂 I used the Macro setting with the kit lens. I think for the middle picture I used my 55-200 lens. The others are with the 18-55 lens.
I find myself not using Macro as much as I thought I would. Since the flash goes up. Based on what I learned yesterday I might start using Landscape for food pictures.
Probably 90% of the time, I just use the Auto setting or Auto w/o flash and let the camera do all the work. Sometimes I use Shutter priority or Aperture priority. I’m glad this week’s photo week is causing me to try out all the different options.
Jen! I took the same picture of the seed on a dogwood tree, mine didn’t turn out that great though… We are always on the same wave length. Nice job!
Thanks for the insight, Jen! I don’t know squat about taking pictures, so I appreciate your words of wisdom. That checkers set is so cool. Great angle!
I’m a big fan of the checkers shot as well!