focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/100
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 500
flash: none
Your subject needn’t always be looking at the camera but as long as her eyes are in the frame, I think it makes for a nice photo. The viewer is left to wonder what the subject was looking at and a story is built out of [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/80
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 400
flash: none
No, I didn’t shove the camera into my little one’s face for this shot. She was crawling closer and closer to me and I was trying to get further back but the couch got in the way but that didn’t stop me from snapping away. [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/125
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 200
flash: none
You may recognize this photo from my last article, Composition: Lines, where I had cropped and straightened a very slanted image. I still wasn’t satisfied with the cluttered background, especially the brightly coloured flowers behind the subject on the left side of the frame. So [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/200
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 500
flash: none
For this image, I had to do a little cropping and straightening but that’s about all the post processing I did. Had I framed this photo better in the first place, I would have saved some time and avoided the trouble of “fixing” the image. [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/50
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 500
flash: none
Today I’ll share my thought processes before setting up this shot.  Before I even pressed the shutter release button, I already envisioned what my image would look like and positioned myself accordingly.  I wanted my subject on the right third of the photo.  I also preferred to [...]