Overexposed?

{joining Ginny's yarn along again}

I am still knitting the Henley, it is coming along and keeping my hands very busy while I have to sit and wait. I love the fit - he has such a nice frame, I do not like baggy sweaters on him.  I will make everything long enough, an as soon as it is too small, he has two little brothers to take it over from him.

shutter speed 1/15s

I am also still reading  A Canticle for Leibowitz, and enjoying it very much.  It is light reading, and so much fun I almost feel guilty.  When I am done I will pen down a few ideas - I am a Calvinist to the core, but love my Catholic friends and really appreciate their input and perspective.

shutter speed 1/40s

My latest reading is Understanding Exposure, a book on photography that I discovered in Ginny's favorites shop.  Lovely! Many short easy words to explain the long, difficult ones.  I set my camera, a Canon EOS 350 D, to manual, and I am finally learning to use my camera.  The pictures of the sweater is a small sample of what I have been doing the past week - mostly setting the f stop to 5.6 and then adjusting the shutter speed to find the right exposure.  The first photo was taken at 1/15 s shutter speed, and the second at 1/40.  I also set the white balance to cloudy.  Sorry, this may be either old news or too much detail, I know, but I think it is amazing. 

1/40s at f/5.6

 He will be 8 in 2 weeks, he does not like standing there in a half-finished sweater.

1/40s at f/5.6

But I want to capture that smile and those little shoulders while I still can.