Mar 29, 2011

We’re Moving!!!!

For Sale

We decided to sell our house.  We will probably take a loss even though we bought in a down market it has still dropped significantly in our neighborhood.

There was a tragic death in my family and that has been why I haven’t posted for a while.  It really affected my husband and I and helped us realize this house is not our home.  We were so torn on trying to save this house or selling at a loss and than this horrible event occurred.  My family lives in New York and they need us now more than ever.   Whatever loss we take we can live with.  We just want to be closer to family.

We will have to find jobs, a place to live, and good schools.  I am not sure I can continue to homeschool if we move.  My husband is trying to find an EMT position and sending out multiple applications everyday.  We are looking into Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey.

If you live in these states please comment and tell me where to go or stay away from.  Thanks I will be posting all about boxing up our lives and becoming renters again. 

So far I have finished my sons room and will be posting the current pictures in my next post.  That is my house in the top picture, if you live in the Triad and want to know more about it just email me.

Thanks everybody!!

Mar 4, 2011

DSLR Manual Settings

I have been working on learning to use my Canon Rebel EOS Rebel XS’ manual settings.  I have never taken a photography class in my life.  I basically take 100 or more pictures at different settings on my camera and learn that way.

I am going to show you a bunch of photos and what the setting was on each.  Todays model was my 2 year old Chihuahua Mix Chloe.

  1. Manual
  2. White Balance – daylight
  3. F-stop   f/5
  4. Exposure Time  1/25
  5. ISO 1600

007

  1. Manual
  2. White Balance – daylight
  3. F-stop   f/5.6
  4. Exposure Time  1/25
  5. ISO 1600

010

  1. Manual
  2. White Balance – daylight
  3. F-stop   f/5
  4. Exposure Time  1/25
  5. ISO 1600

012

  1. Manual
  2. White Balance – daylight
  3. F-stop   f/5
  4. Exposure Time  1/25
  5. ISO 1600

019

  1. Manual
  2. White Balance – daylight
  3. F-stop   f/5
  4. Exposure Time  1/15
  5. ISO 1600

034

She’s the best model.  My other doggie doesn’t like to be photographed. I took a great picture of my friends 2 yr. old son, but I’ll have to ask her if I can post it.

Janet