Camera Lessons - Uh! Oh!

Did I tell you Mom signed up for on online Camera Course?  I wouldn't have cared, except guess who gets to be Target Practice?  You got it.  Your's truly. 

She really doesn't have a REAL camera, just a point and shoot.  The course is for an SLR Camera ( I think that is short for SLOWER, because with an SLR you have to change all sorts of things and the target - me - gets tired and leaves before you can take a picture.)  She says that she learned lots of things about the Point and Shoot settings so now she can use her FASTER camera to get better pictures of me.)

I don't know. 
 The first week they did "White Balance".  Mom took this first picture on Automatic.  I knew it wasn't going to be very good right away.  That's why I'm sticking my tongue out. 

But she was able to change the automatic setting and got this lovely picture of me with the fountain.  I liked that one much better.



 

The next week they did "Shutter Speed".  They were supposed to be able to shoot streams of water so you could see the water droplets.  Kinda like this:

 

Can you see the water droplets?  I told her that was cheating 'cuz it's really not rain -- it's big drops of water from the water spout.  But she had to use something called "Sports Mode" because she couldn't change the shutter speed, so I guess it was OK.  But the worst is still to come. 

She was taking pictures in "Sports Mode" while I was playing with Ozzie, 'cuz we were running so fast, she thought that would be good.  But then she got it in her head to combine the stream of water thing with me in Sports Mode.  So here I am as Target Practice in the Extreme.

 

 

I do hafta admit.  I make a pretty cute target.   But I'd really rather not leave you with this impression of Mom's picture taking abilities.  So let me show you what she did with "Beach & Snow" mode.  (In Arizona you have to make do -- since we have no beach and no snow -- but it worked for her picture.)

 

 

I've gotta to hide now.  She has the camera out again.  See ya! 

 

G