Sleep Over Weekend

Sleep-Over Weekend (Canon 5D, Canon 70-200 f/2.8L lens - 1/100 second, f/4, ISO 100)

Another eventful weekend! I got home Friday night and found that the power was off. Julie's mom suggested a "sleep-over" at her house. We decided that it would be a good idea to stay over there Friday night and come back home Saturday after the power was back on. So I packed up a few things and the camera and went over to the Tates for the night. When I arrived, Julie, Katelyn and Harriett were busy making cookies. We stayed up late Friday night playing around.

On Saturday, we got up and it was raining hard. It rained for several hours and I took the opportunity to snap some weather shots showing the rain. Just after lunch, the sun came out and the skies cleared. Katelyn decided that it was time to go swimming, so we took the camera outside and got some action shots of Katelyn playing in the pool. After watering the plants, cars, trees, some people, and well, just about everything, we decided to move back inside to eat dinner.

Harriett had just finished smocking Katelyn's dress and wanted a picture or two of her in the dress. So we put Katelyn in the dress and took some pictures of her around the living room. I chose f/4 to get the depth of field that would get a blurred background while getting her whole face in focus. I chose ISO 100 to get the detail. I chose the 1/100th shutter speed to allow the background to show up and not look dark. With the Canon EX 580 II flash on ETTL, I just starting flashing away. Katelyn was tired (as were we all) and I wasn't able to get a great amount of good shots, but I got enough to feel successful.