focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/40
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 800
flash: none
If you’re lucky enough to have a north-facing window in your home, you can benefit from great natural lighting. I had Sophie sit facing my front window for this shot in the morning of last November, trying out her new winter gear. In retrospect, I [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/200
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 500
flash: none
I know her eyes don’t really line up with the Rule of Thirds but the background was distracting and I was trying to crop it out but I didn’t want to crop out the top of her “antennae” since her hair was the reason I took these [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/200
aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 200
flash: none
I usually like photos of children to be bright and cheery. This shot wasn’t so cheery, so I decreased the exposure, increased blacks and added a black vignette to match the mood using Adobe Lightroom. It’s really wonderful to be able to “produce” images in [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/80
aperture: f/2.5
ISO: 200
flash: none
I wish I had moved my camera just a little bit to the left so her hand didn’t get cut off. Also, the photo would have been better balanced with less of the empty space on the right. I like looking at my photos while [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/40
aperture: f/2.5
ISO: 200
flash: none
When I shoot in portrait rather than in landscape orientation, I like to fill the frame with my subject and I try to line up the eyes following the Rule of Thirds. Using a smaller aperture (a larger f-stop) helps to keep more of the facial [...]