What is this?

This is a space where I plan on putting up my most recent photography escapades. Through this blog I would like to achieve a sense of improvement in my photographs through the rest of my time on here.

Today consisted of hanging out with and shooting with Kaitlyn. After a half day of running around, I edit and see all this amazing grain in my photos! Come to find out my ISO was continently set at 800 instead of my preferred 200. Oh joy.

The first shoot consisted of hard light on snow. I didn't use my external, and it shows in the final images.

The second shoot was more entertaining in the sense that we got to climb on the roof...which was covered in ice and snow. Our model, Paige, slipped and busted her butt which we're certain was heard in the classrooms below. I enjoyed messing around with my slave flash, throwing it around the roof with my jacket,

using the black of the jacket to shield the snow from the light.

Sorting through the shots, I found the ones I like most to consist of softer light on the subject's face. We were both shooting in lower lighted shade, but my ISO was 800 so there was little problem there. Now that I think about it, my D70 wouldn't let the shutter speed go faster than 1/500. This was probably due to the fact that the flash has to have time to show up on the subject. Since I wanted the shutter to be faster than 1/500, it would have been smart to have LOOKED at the ISO and bumped it from 800 to 200...Sadly the D70 doesn't go lower than that.

The last shot I set up was one framed with Paige and Kaitlyn. This is one of the shots that shows more light on Paige's face. I think it'd have been better (if I had more memory cards(note to self)) to allow more of a diffused flash on both her and Kaitlyn.