I got an awesome post coming up, but the photos for that update need more processing time and the client’s “okay” (which I am reasonably confident I will get, but I still want to get it first and let the client have the photos first too – there is a process after all).
Anyway, here some photos of a toddler with a water sprayer. If you need to put a smile a kid’s face, give them a water sprayer. Just have a good warranty or insurance on your camera and lenses just in case. That’s a long boring post for another day.
Getting back to the photos, here the toddler is not only spraying water but also jumping on a trampoline. That means I needed shutter speed to be fast (1/500) which means I needed to adjust in F stop and ISO. It is a giant trade off but if you understand how shutter speed, F stop, and ISO work and how they work together, you can figure out what adjustments you are willing to make in the amounts you are willing to make them. This means you will need to get away from auto settings and work with more manual settings but that will only improve the quality of your work in the long run.
No extra lighting here, just the sun and a lot of worry my camera was going to get water on it.