Mostly I haven't posted lately, because I am a little frustrated with my camera myself and my abilities with my camera. First of all I had some really cute pictures of Peyton's birthday party that we went to a couple of weeks ago, but apparently it matters whether you take your picture in RAW form or not. To make a long story even longer I can't put the pictures on my blog because I have no idea how to convert them. Second, the pictures I do take I feel like a 2 year old could take them. They are worse than if I had just used auto. I have been reading a ton of things on ISO, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and everything else. As you can see by the following pictures, it is doing me no good.
Anyway we had St. Patty's day and Jason went all out.
He made green waffles, but you can't tell because I am such an awesome photographer.
The kids loved them.
Isn't it funny how just the color of something can change how excited they get about things.
Jason also made us Corned Beef and Cabbage, which he has never had before little alone eaten. I love it, but I never did like it when I was a kid and my mom would make it. That is exactly what happened with my kids. Of coarse they don't like anything, Jason wasn't a big fan either.
Moving on, I had this great idea for a 4th of July wreath I was going to make. I was going to dip paper stars into this Plasti Dip. It coats anything in plastic. It has some real potential I promise.
But alas, I don't think it is going to turn out.
So then I just started dipping things in the stuff, like this cloth-pin. Don't ask why, just go and try it yourself you will understand. It reminds me of the time Jason go us some liquid nitrogen. We spent hours freezing anything we could think of. We would spit in it, put coins in it, what every we could think of. It's just good fun. So if you can think of something that needs dipped in plastic, just let me know!
My next project was cross-stitching this awesome dish towel. It is my family, in case you were wondering. Yeah, the guy that looks like a child molester/hippy is supposed to be Jason. Beckett didn't turn out so great either, okay none of them did jeez. I got these cute little patterns from here so I thought I would try them. Not so much cute when I try to tweak them. Oh well!
3 comments:
First I must say that I SAW that the waffles were green and thought you were going to tell us your camera made everything green!
I think you are doing great with it. You took great close ups, things are in focus, that is a great start.
Don't beat yourself. The adaption thing takes time.
I'm telling you... set in on P mode and that is super forgiving but a step up from auto.
Your cross stitch is awfully cute too.
Thanks for sharing!!
I'm always so excited when you post because you never fail to make me smile. And you did not disappoint :0)
I completely understand about the aperture,ISO, read and not get improved photos. I do what Celiac said on occasion- that is the P mode for super macro and macro. Pretty much the rest of the time it's the auto mode. I'm not ashamed. I never have enough time to mess with the dials.
I love the cross stitch child molester, family line up complete with dog. I can NOT do cross stitch. It is instant migraine for me.
Your waffles DID look green and the kids apparently LOVE them :0)
I think your pictures are awesome. The most adventuresome I get is to move the setting so I can take a whole bunch of pictures at once to catch action. Other than that I always take my pictures using auto. So you get points from me for trying to do it some other way. I could tell the waffles were green. The cross stitch is hilarious. I gave it up long ago and now even if wanted to do it I wouldn't be able to see it and it would probably bother my hands.
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