F-Stop. F-This!

I have been recently focusing on my photography. I'm still learning about my camera and what I can do with it. The sad things is I haven't been able to wrap my mind around the basic stuff, which I was so good at before. In college my big things in filmmaking was lighting. I was a wise, and never had an issue with converting F-stops or anything to get the desired look. With my new camera, I just haven't been able to translate it - I don't know if I had to throwaway everything on cameras and lighting out of my memory warehouse to make way for all the stuff I know about kids, but I'm just not getting it.

I'm thinking I'm going to go back and read some of my cinematography books, hoping this will spark a glimmer of the knowledge I once had. Still I press on. I have focused my shooting to getting the right shot and not shooting 100 to get on perfectly framed photo. I think it's the quality not the quantity - at least thats how it is when you're not shooting kids, which is what I have been doing a lot since I have two perfect subjects. Still when I have time I do shot other things. A recent trip to the Brimfield Fair brought the photos you see here. I'm very proud of these and I'm thinking of printing and framing them.

I wish we had time to head out to the Big E this fall, I would love to shoot along the Midway at night. I have a beautiful shot of the Wheel form a few years ago, but would like to shot some of the rides and lights of the fair. I'll have to see if I can make the time, if not there is always next year.