HARDY FAMILY TREASURES: Photography

2/18/09

Photography

I've decided I need to take a photography class so I can learn how to use my camera. Up until now, I've just been using the Auto Mode. There is so much more potential to my camera and I hate having it all go to waste. So I've had a couple of classes so far and I'm loving it. It's a little confusing and is taking me a little while to take all the information in, but I think I'm slowly getting a hang of it. My kids hate me now, I've been snapping pictures of them non-stop. Ben goes into hiding as soon as he sees me with the camera.

Here are just a few pictures from my last class' home work assignment - aperture control.

Constructive criticism is welcome.

6 comments:

Emily said...: I don't really know anything about photography so I can't help, but they look great to me!; February 18, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Melissa said...: Oh - I'm jealous that you get to take a photography class. That's been on my to-do list for about three years now!! I really like the pics. You'll have to share what you're learning next time I see you.; February 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM
ashley said...: Very cool! I'm so jealous. I've never taken a photography class. I have done some online tutorials but I bet it's much better coming from a real class. The pictures look great!; February 18, 2009 at 9:53 PM
~~Heidi~~ said...: awesome!! I love all of them, I need to take another photo class, I didn't learn as much as I should have in the one I took in collage. But maybe because I had too many other important classes I let the fun classes go!; February 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM
kristen said...: so cool that you are taking classes!!!! Good luck. I have NO photography skills, so I am impressed by the pictures you take!; February 22, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Erin said...: Hi Diana!

Thanks for saying hi again on my blog! Your kiddos are really so cute. And I died laughing at your family picture. That is SO how all of our turn out! Oh well. Such is the life with toddlers I suppose!

Good for you for getting into photography! That is so cool. I never had the time to take actual classes, I bet they are teaching you a TON. Very cool.

So I actually have two lenses. One is an 85mm f/1.2 and the other is a 24-70 f/2.8. The 24-70 is what I use pretty much ALL the time. Its such a great all around lens and I LOVE IT. I pull the 85 out only for certain situations.

Anywho... Hope that helps! Good luck in the photog adventure!!! :) Its a fun one. haha; March 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM

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Things they says that just have to be remembered...

BENJAMIN:

5/11 - Ben is asking me if Andrew and him could go play at a friends' house. I must have hesitated for a second because he was quick to add "If I'm at Seth's house than you can just clean up the house and I won't be here to mess it up...and I won't be bugging you...doesn't that sound like a good idea?" Haha! How could I say no to that one?

3/11 - We are at church at the sacrament meeting. The speaker is crying...
Andrew: Ben, why is she crying?
Ben: Because she feels the spirit.

2/11 - Benjamin was telling me about a dream he had last night...
Ben: I saw Jesus come down from Heaven.
Me: Did He talk to you?
Ben: Well, no. He was talking to everybody.
Me: What did He say?
Ben: I don't really remember.
Me: How did you feel when you saw Him?
Ben: I was like "oh my gosh, it's Jesus" and I was smiling.
Me: That's a pretty cool dream.
Ben: Yeah, I wish Jesus would come down to Earth again in real life.
Me: Me too.

1/11 - We're driving in a car. Benjamin asked for a drink and I didn't have any. After a couple of seconds of thinking about it, he says "When I am an electrical engineer, I will build fountains on the road, so when somebody gets thirsty in a car, they can just stop and get a drink of water from a fountain. I don't know why Daddy hadn't thought about that?"

3/10 - Davey (Scott’s cousin): “Benjamin, how old are you?”
Ben: “I’m 3.”
Davey: “When do you turn 4?”
Ben: “After you’re 3.”

3/10 - Benjamin is saying a prayer before bed ”…please bless our prophet Thomas S. Monson…(pause)…Obama? Mom, who’s Obama?”
Me: “He is the President of the Unites States of America.”
Ben (continues with his prayer): “Heavenly Father, please bless Obama…”
It’s was kind of funny. He’s been praying for him ever since. I think our president can probably use some 3-year-olds praying for him.

10/09 - I'm making dinner and Benjamin is asking me for fruit snacks. I've already told him several times that he can have some after dinner, but not right now. After asking me yet again and me telling him not till after dinner, he says "urgh, you stubborn old mare". (fyi, it's from a geotrax dvd that he loves).

9/09 - At dinner Benjamin was messing around and fell off his chair head first. After some crying, he climbs back on the chair and says, "Why did you make this floor with tile and not grass? It wouldn't hurt my head so much if it was grass."

8/09 - Benjamin was watching Cindirella for the first time. (I have to admit, it was my idea to watch it. It used to be my favorite growing up.) After the movie was over, he said "Mom, let's not watch that ever again."

4/09 - Benjamin was blessing the food for dinner. After blessing everyone’s individual plates and drinks, and then blessing everybody he knows, twice, he said “…and bless Omner and Himni…”. (For those who don’t know, Omner and Himni were sons of Mosiah from the Book of Mormom, read full story here http://scriptures.lds.org/en/mosiah/27 )

4/09 - We’re at the doctor’s office, checking out. Benjamin is talking to everybody who’ll listen to him in the lobby. One lady asked him what his name was. Here’s his answer…
Ben: I’m Benjamin. I’m almost 3 years old. I’m going to be baptized. I’ll be a missionary one day.

3/09 - I put Ben in time-out (the corner)…
Ben: When I turn into a dinosaur, I’ll scare you away from putting me in time-out.

3/09 - I was helping Benjamin say a prayer. We thanked Heavenly Father for our prophet, Thomas S. Monson. After the prayer...
Ben: Thomas S. Monson is our prophet?
Me: Yes, he is.
Ben: I love him. He is my friend.

2/09 - We're on our way back from the doctor's office. Benjamin's got a really bad runny nose...
Ben: Mom, we need to go back to the doctor.
Me: Why?
Ben: He needs to take my nose off, it's too runny.

2/09 – I’m doing yoga; I’m in my zone, ignoring everything and everyone else. Scott, apparently, thinks it’s funny, so he tries to break my concentration by kissing my face. I try to shoo him away at which Ben gets a running start, jumps on top of me, pins me down and yells “Kiss ‘er, Daddy, kiss ‘er”. Great…there goes my Zen breathing…

12/08 - We are in the car with my Mom.
Ben: Mommy hit a car the other morning.
Mom (to me): You did?
Me: Yea, I did...I wasn't gonna tell you...Thanks, Benjamin. Ben: Did you say sorry to the peoples?
Me: Yes, I told them I was very sorry.
Ben: Thank you for saying sorry.
Me: You're welcome.
Ben: Did you give them money?
Me: No, I didn't give them money.
Ben: Give them hundred dollars.

ANDREW:

2/11 The boys were eating cereal (Crunch Berries). Andrew was picking all the purple ones out and saying, "Who wants the poopoo one?"

2/11 Andrew: (really sweet voice) Mommy, can I please hit Benjamin?
Me: No, you may not hit Benjamin.
Andrew: (disappointed voice) oh, why?

2/11 I was at a Relief Society activity, the boys were being babysat by some young women in our Ward. As I was picking them up...
Me: What did you guys do?
Andrew: We watched a movie.
Me: What movie did you watch?
Andrew: Booty and the Beast

9/10 We just picked up Benjamin from preschool. I asked him what he did at preschool today...
Ben: We talked about our names.
Me: What did you say about your name?
Ben: I said that I have the same name as a righteous king in the Book of Mormon, King Benjamin.
Andrew: and I King Andrew.

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2/18/09

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