As you can probably tell, I've been attempting to get more into photography lately. Partially because I have a DSLR that I almost never use, and partially because I am truly amazed by some of the amazing photos I see (my friend Lauren takes these phenomenal pictures and she's my age. If she learned how to do it, I can learn how to do it). Anyway, Lauren came to visit us this past weekend and she gave me some valuable advice about taking pictures and cameras and how to learn how to take great photos. One site that she linked me to is CreativeLive, which has many different tutorials on photography and other subjects.
I found one video series called "Photography Starter Kit" by John Greengo, and so far it's been really helpful. The whole series is about 4 hours long, and it just lightly skims on how to work DSLR cameras, how to set shutter, aperture, and ISO and when to change the settings, etc. I've only watched one hour of it so far and I've really learned a lot.
Anyway, here are some test shots I decided to take with my camera on the manual settings the other day. The light comes into my room beautifully mid-afternoon (thank you, westward facing windows) and I thought I would share.
