Finally Week of Class

I found this lesson actually really really interesting. The discussion about the different ISO settings and the higher the number the more pixels you would see if you blew it up was interesting. Let me start by saying that I am currently in Florida on vacation, so I had to use my father-in-laws Nikon D90 and he doesn't have the camera set up the same way we learned in week one. He is interested in taking the class for sure so I sent him the link. I had to change as much as I could in the manual mode, but I struggled with getting the spot metering, since I didn't pay attention to the Nikon portion of the settings video. Regardless... here they are.

I started outside, they a retaining pond in their backyard, to get some pictures of the fowl that hang out in there. So I found a quite ugly bird sitting on top of a house, I think I spooked it. I set my ISO to 100 since it was so bright and then went to work metering. Here is the series of me getting closer to the bird.

I did change the Fstop a few times to show the difference in what would happen with the sky. I then went inside and my wife was giving my daughter a bath so I figured what a perfect chance to take some indoor pictures with the highest ISO in the camera, 3200!

The lighting and tiles have a yellow tint but I did struggle with getting it metered just right in that light. Off her check, it was perfect so I am wondering if it was just the reflection of the tub, tile, and paint.

The most interesting part was when I went to look at them on the computer and I would zoom in on the ISO 100 and it was VERY CLEAR. I could zoom in and crop whatever I wanted and it seemed crystal clear. But with the higher ISO, as seen in the one picture I cropped, I was very limited in the amount of cropping I could do because it was suddenly get grainy.

I am VERY happy to have that knowledge about the higher ISO so I can know from now on if an indoor picture gets blurry when cropped thats why. It would have driven me NUTS!

Thanks Amber!