Photography Lesson Homework: ISO

I have been slowly working my way through some lessons on using a digital slr camera posted on a very helpful blog. I am finally getting around to trying another lesson.

This lesson was on using your ISO setting. The ISO is the camera’s sensitivity to light. Aimee at It’s Overflowing does a great job of explaining it in her post: Photography Friday 4 {ISO}.

I have a feeling that when I master the ISO settings, it will be very helpful to me. Our current home is surrounded by trees. Now that winter is over and the trees have all their leaves, I am noticing it is so much harder for me to get good pictures inside my house. I am sure that as I work on using my ISO setting it will improve my pictures during the summer months when our house is darker.

The pictures I used to practice the ISO setting really don’t show much difference. My camera has an ISO range from 100 to 1600. I see that other cameras have a higher range. I guess it is just proof that my once state of the art digital SLR is outdated. Oh well, it’s what I’ve got.

Here is the first try at seeing a difference with the ISO setting. It is hard for me to distinguish much difference, but I would say that the ISO 800 is slightly better or brighter than the other pictures. (Oh and you can see Pumpkin working hard on her handwriting in the background. Do you also see the sweet note she wrote me to go with the tissue paper flowers? It says I am the best mom in the world! ahhh! So sweet!)

I was working on pictures for another blog post to come next week (probably).