Starting Over...

I guess I'll just come right out and say it...I SUCK at blogging. I suppose that means it is no longer a secret. Oh well. For some reason though, I'm going to try it out, and see if I can improve the looks of it and make it a bit better. I got distracted looking at my sister and cousins blogs today, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to get mine working again too, and this time 

NOT for school (ick!). Also, my fabulous cousin Tara told me that I should start a blog for my photography stuff so people can see my skills and what not. I decided to first go with this personal blog, and then once I actually have skills with photography I'll start a different blog solely for that or whatever. Again, I'm horrid at doing blogs, so this can be practice until I need to be good at it for whatever reason. So don't judge me. 

Let's start by telling you a little about what's going on in my life (and perhaps the only thing, seeing as I don't have a job yet). 

• I started a photography course online yesterday
• I also started a Photoshop Elements class as well. 

THEY ARE FABULOUS!!! Love them. I have only been through 2 lessons with PE and 1 with the photography, and so far things are looking up! I'm stoked to see how improved my photos are going to look. Not to mention all the wonderful knowledge I'm gaining and I can put to good use when I start having pretty little children. Haha. Actually, we won't start thinking about that just yet. I'm a little too young for that. So we'll change that and say "I can 

put to good use when..." My sister has her baby in September! :) Oh joy!!! A baby boy. It's going to be awesome. I hope she's excited, because she is going to have hundreds of thousands of photos of the little tyke. So many, she won't know what to do with them and will get sick of seeing pictures of her kid (lol. As if this could happen to any mother). Whelp, that's all for now. I'll upload the pictures that I took for the first assignment. No editing is done on them cuz he was just looking to see that we knew how to work the controls on our cameras. There's nothing too special about them. And then I guess I can upload a picture I edited thanks to the first 2 lessons on PE. Let me know what you think. Any critiques would be WONDERFUL and MUCH APPRECIATED, whether you know anything about photography or not. :) Gratzi. Enjoy. 

The difference in these photos is the aperture. That's basically all there was to this part of the assignment. The first photo is with a clear background. Second is an in between. Third is the most blurred (In case ya couldn't see with your own eyes, of course then there would be no point in me posting these pictures). 

Here we used a Fast shutter speed to freeze the action...and a longer shutter speed to blur the action. 

Have a fabulous day!!!