I am so so SO excited about today’s guest poster. I meet Chrissy on the Monday Crafterminds Chat on Twitter. She has 2 amazing blogs. I love her ticket bowl and ALL her photography tip me tuesday is clear and easy to understand. I know the biggest negative on my own blog is my photography, or lack thereof. SOMEDAY I will own an SLR and learn from Chrissy and have amazing pictures! Just you wait and see (and wait and wait and wait while I save up for a camera!). Thanks Chrissy for guest posting today!
I’m thrilled to be guest posting on Ashlee’s blog today. The bloggy world is such a great place to meet new friends that you may not have otherwise met. I blog more everyday adventures on my Hoot Designs blog and I also have an Etsy shop Stop. Stop by and visit, I’d love to met you. Thank you Ashlee for inviting me to post.
Ashlee really enjoyed one of my posts on my photography blog about Aperture, so I thought I would touch on it here with a link to the full post here. I also have a Tip me Tuesday under Labels where other tips can be found.
Here we go: Aperture also called f/stop refers to the lens on your camera not the camera body. The most confusing to understand is the lower the number, low Aperture f/stop number, the more light and wider the opening of the lens letting light in.
This shows a tiny opening at f/16 and a wide opening at f/2.0
It’s in the Camera Bag
I shoot almost 100% of the time with a 50mm 1.8 lens. This lens opens WIDE and allows lots of light in. The lens adds a fantastic sought after Bokeh background and it softens skin tone, which is perfect for portraits. Here are two photos I took showing Bokeh. In photography, Bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.”
This photo shows the lowest Aperture, the mid range, and the highest on my 50mm 1.8 lens.
Blur with a wide opening = low number (great for portraits)
No blur tiny opening = high number (great for landscapes)
Here is some information about the lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens for those with a Nikon you would get this Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras On Amazon.com both lens’ are currently $129.00/Canon and Nikor.
I’ll be honest I bought this lens because I really wanted a “new lens” and MonicaB who I was taking a Digital 101 class with said this is the lens to get, and for the money you will be thrilled with it. And you know what, she was 110% right. So right, that I put it on my camera the day I got it and I have not used any other lens since, it’s that good. All the photos on my blog are with the Canon 50mm 1.8. All three sets of families and portraits I photographed are with the 50mm lens too. It’s fantastic!!
Here is my photo of this past weekends supermoon with the same lens.
Thank you, Ashlee, for inviting me to guest post on I’m Topsy Turvy. If your readers are happy with the post I’d love to this again. Please visit me at Hoot Photography and my Hoot Designs blogs and join me in my blogging and photo fun adventures, I’d love to meet you!
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