Sam 11 months on

[forno]

Went to the park with the little guy AND took the 10-22 & 70-200

Time has absolutely blitzed past, Sam will be 1 year old in a few days:eek:

http://forno.smugmug.com/photos/285684000_CrNe5-L.jpg

http://forno.smugmug.com/photos/285685657_ruLhE-M.jpg

http://forno.smugmug.com/photos/285686295_n7fWQ-L.jpg

http://forno.smugmug.com/photos/285687485_7hFvM-M.jpg

[cdifoto]

Holy crap! :eek: Time sure does fly, dough-nit? :D

[forno]

Sure does!

I hear you are flying off to the land of the fajita to do a wedding:cool:

[cdifoto]

Hah yep end of June. Just received my travel packet yesterday.

[Honest Gaza]

Glad to see all is well Forno. They certainly keep you busy don't they :)

[tim11]

Peter Costello said: "One for dad, one for mum and one for Australia". Where are the other 2 Forno?

Well... it won't be long now before he has a go with your camera if you don't keep it safe. :D

[moneypenny02]

i really like that last pic...great perspective. Thats the best part of having a photographer for a parent....amazing photo albums!

[AdamW]

i really like that last pic...great perspective.

Oh yeah!
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[24Peter]

Very cute! How do you manage to keep him still long enough to take a pic? :)

[faisal]

Very cute! How do you manage to keep him still long enough to take a pic? :)

very easy....make the mommy do all the 'diverting/attention grabbing' effort while you click away 20 or so pictures. You'll get at least one right ;). Thats why we have 3fps....or more... :D

Btw love that last picture...will try it with my niece...

[nqjudo]

Beautiful shots Forno. 11 months already... man I am getting old.

[FLiPMaRC]

Beautiful kid forno. Great shots too! :)

[Nickcanada]

Forno!!! it's been a while! He's looking great!

[forno]

Thanks guys, he is heaps of fun at the moment:D

But too quick to get many shots using anything other than the 70-200 or you get this:p

http://forno.smugmug.com/photos/234806474_2UKiV-L.jpg

[FLiPMaRC]

That's a classic shot!!! I love it!! :cool:

[ZoicX]

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Agree with the others - love the perspective on #4. But how'd you get the nice DOF effect in the background and the blur on the red swing in the foreground (don't know what that's called technically)????

I'm a parent of a 13 month old, and I have an XTi and kit lens, and usually don't get this kind of DOF. Oh, and another thing, I'm a newbie at this so your tips will certainly me help as I develop this skill.

[forno]

Agree with the others - love the perspective on #4. But how'd you get the nice DOF effect in the background and the blur on the red swing in the foreground (don't know what that's called technically)????

I'm a parent of a 13 month old, and I have an XTi and kit lens, and usually don't get this kind of DOF. Oh, and another thing, I'm a newbie at this so your tips will certainly me help as I develop this skill.

LOL, by spending 2k on a lens:p

Serously though, your kit elns has an aperture range of 3.5 - 5.6 from memory and is a short focal lenghth.

The lens I used is a 2.8 aperture and a long focal lenght both of these characteristics help with the background blur (bokeh)

So basically the larger the aperture(small number like f/1.8 or f/2.8) make less of the photo in focus, where as if you use a small aperture (f/9 for example) lots of the photo will be in focus, generaly you would use large apertures for isolating the subject such as a portrait and you would use small apertures for things like landscapes where you want the whole shot to be in focus and sharp