Barbie relaxing during our 6th DSLR Photography Lesson with her Nikon D300 at the New Dali MuseumBarbie returned from her many travels for our sixth DSLR Photography Lesson this morning at the New Dali Museum in downtown St. Petersburg. As you can see from the photo above, she makes herself very comfortable while doing photography. We were not on a beach but under a large tree behind the museum that has a pathway made up of of broken shells.
We kept the flash on the camera for today's lesson, but still produced creatively lit portraits (unfortunately I had to be the model!). I really like using the Dali Museum location for photography work, and of course photographing the museum itself, especially at twilight, can produce dynamic results (see here).
I had Barbie really concentrate on thinking which settings to use before pushing the shutter as we shot in various lighting and background situations. As a photographer, as you move to the next location you should already be thinking of what kind of shot you want to make, which in turn dictates which settings you will need. If you change light between locations and keep the same settings, well, the results will of course be very overexposed or underexposed. Even though it's all digital, I do not like to waste shots. Plus, if the shot is too bad it gives me no reference to use to hopefully perfectly dial in my settings by the second shot.
Lessons with Barbie are always fun and before she travels again we need to finish our remaining two lessons!
