Mother Daughter Weekend

My husband took the boys away to see his parents this weekend and left my daughter and me to have some time to ourselves. Since she is "Daddy's Girl" it was nice to be her main focus for the weekend. We went shopping for school clothes, painted our nails and went to see a movie. All sorts of fun girl stuff!

Before we left for our movie yesterday, I set up the tripod and used my handy, dandy new remote to try for a picture. I had the new 50mm fixed lens on the camera along with my 430EX Speedlight and my Lightsphere diffuser. Although the pictures are fine for snapshots, I think there are two things that would have made them better. First, my aperture was set at f1.8 from the previous time I'd been playing with it. The reason that is a problem is that the center focus point landed on my shoulder in the center of the picture rather than on our faces. We all know that sharp eyes are the most important part of a portrait, not sharp shoulders! Ha. If I'd had my aperture a little higher, I would have more DOF and our faces would have been in focus. Oops. The other thing I wish I'd done differently is I wish I'd taken out the inverted dome from the light diffuser. I think this would have sent a lot more light up to the ceiling and we would be lit better. Live and learn. Still, all in all, I'm glad we have a set of pictures together to remember our fun weekend.