Tuesday, April 19, 2011

kids + kittens

dear bloggers who actually know how to work their cameras,
I think I messed with some setting & now all my pictures are grainy.  Any idea what I would've done & what said setting needs to be on?
many thanks,
natural-born photographer with no technical skills


If you can get past those blues eyes & see the kitten, isn't it adorable?


SO serious.

I love those chubby legs & feet & the Hello Kitty band-aid that's probably covering nothing.  :)


She's so girly.  Already she cares about flowers & her hair & nail polish & the likes :)


This makes me want a sister.



Time-out...where this boy spends much of his time.  And then when I let him out, he crawls right back up in my lap & kisses me.  You can't help but love him.


It was driving the little ones CRAZY that they weren't allowed to hold the kittens!

Just realized that the only picture I put up of Abel, he was in time-out.  I promise he didn't stay there all day!  He's just so wide open all.the.time that it's hard to get him in a picture.  Here's one...no one else is looking, but I happened to catch him :)


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5 comments:

  1. I am just a little amateur photographer but most of the time the grain comes with a ISO that is too high for the setting you are shooting in. I know there could be other reasons too...maybe you could google it? :o) That is my go to thing to do!

    Such sweet photos!

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  2. I was going to say the ISO also! If it's too high that can make for grainy pictures..:)

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  3. It's definitely your ISO - never go above 800.

    Here are the "magic" camera settings that are my go to reminders... hopefully this will help.

    these are the 2 extremes and play with your settings in between the two...

    1) outside on a bright, sunny day -
    ISO 100
    F stop - 8.0
    Shutter speed - 200-250 / second

    2) inside lighting -
    ISO 800 (never go higher - will be grainy)
    f stop - 2.8
    shutter speed - 1/60 of a second (don't ever go lower - the pictures wont be in focus)

    cloudy day - ISO between 200-400

    Hope this helps!

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  4. lovely pictures. she has the most beautiful blue eyes :)

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