I ♥ Reeses

My good friend Meredith is hosting a bit of a photography experiment and I am going to do my best to play along. Heck, I love taking pictures and need a good excuse to get to know my camera better! (If you want to join up too, you definitely should! She is using McLinky so everyone can link up and check out each others' efforts! Go visit her!)
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Lesson 1: Aperture Basic Training

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Here's the basic idea:

• Don't let all the fancy language scare you off--f/stop and aperture are the same thing.
  
• F/stop numbers dictate how much of your photo will be in focus.
  
• A low f/stop number means less of your picture is in focus. High f/stop number means more of your picture is in focus.
  

Simple. as. that.
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I had two very generous models that so graciously agreed to be involved with this week's lesson. They came to me in the mail recently and I am very grateful. They were, of course, gobbled up right after the photo shoot.

f/4:
Nothing but the tasty morsels in focus

f/10:
A bit more in focus--notice the 3 Norwegian kroner on the edge of the table

f/29:
Basically everything's in focus. Pretty lame picture.

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I have confirmed what I already suspected; I really like low aperture settings for close ups. The first picture is the only one that is aesthetically pleasing to me.

Thank you lesson one! And thank you Mere for hosting!