you capture: depth of field

I had a sleepover last night with my 3 year old niece. She is absolutely adorable; extremely shy and anxious around new people and situations (which you can see when she twirls her hair around her little fingers). She keeps to herself most of the time, but always has that look on her face that makes you wonder exactly what is going through her 3 year old mind. And when she does talk...well, she tends to say the cutest things. Take a look at a few of our conversations from last night:

Me: Seraya, do you know what time your bedtime is?
Seraya: Um...normally like 49.

Mom: What do you do at bedtime? (Trying to get a better idea of her bedtime routine)
Seraya: Uh, go to bed.

This morning, I wake up to wide-eyed Seraya right next to my face just looking at me.
Me: Oh, good morning Seraya! Have you been awake for a long time waiting for me?
Seraya: No. I sleep with my eyes open.
Me: So you're sleeping right now?
Seraya: [silence, just looks at me]



I was pretty excited about this week's challenge. It meant learning something new!
I read up on depth of field and how to change the aperture on my camera...only to discover my little ol' cybershot only allows for 2 aperture settings :(


I messed around with it for a while, and the 2 settings my camera had made little difference to the focus/fuzziness ratio (I'm so technical, impressive right?) and having it on manual mode greatly reduces the quality of my pictures. Which I could figure out how to change, but I just wasn't up for it.



So I had to settle for this semi-okay macro shot.
Don't get my wrong, the models (my niece with her awesome bed-head and her curious george stuffed animal) were adorable.

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