If you recall back in January on my New Years Resolutions, I said I was working on taking more photos of my family and joined a forum called ShootAlong. Well January I did better with taking photos of family and actually being in some but didn’t try real hard to focus on the subject for that month. So my new goal is to really learn and enhance my skills each month using the tools, resources and lessons given to me from Shoot Along.
So for February, the lesson is on Selective Focus. I love using small apertures because it allows the background or foreground (or both) to blur. I still need practice to really tell a story with the use of this but I pulled out my camera at home on Valentine’s day to catch Kira using her new paints. She loved this gift and painted nearly all weekend long. Notice the Chairs in the foreground are blurry as well as the coat rack and railing in the background. That’s what selective focus is and I’m working on getting better at focusing on the exact point I want. I actually really love the picture of Kira’s Paints. The first few colors and the back few are blurry but the middle ones are in focus. 🙂
