Weekly Photo: Week 6, From A Low Angle, Fireworks!!!

Since last week was 4th of July, I'm using my firework photos as my Low Angle pictures. We are down low and fireworks are high in the sky, right?

I'm pretty excited to share these pictures with you. I've never, ever been able to take very good pictures of fireworks, mainly because I didn't know how. When we decided to go into Prineville to watch the fireworks, I hopped on Pinterest and looked for blogs that told me how to set my DSLR camera up to capture the fireworks. Mainly it's all about the shutter speed and having your camera set up on a tripod to keep it still. These photos vary from a 3 second shutter speed to a 30 second shutter speed. The longer the shutter speed, the more exposure the camera can take in.

So here they are!

This first one was before I changed my lens. We parked away from town and watched them from the high school. After a few I switched to my longer lens to zoom in.

With the longer lens.

Last but not least, the hill caught on fire. Josh always talks about this and was excited that it happened. Don't worry, most of the time it does catch on fire and there are fire trucks on hand to put it out.

I'm excited to go back to Disneyland or Disney World soon so I can take pictures of their fireworks. The Disney firework shows have ruined all other firework shows for Josh and me.

I hope you all had a great Independence Day! Next week the photo challenge is "what I wore today".

Oh and, since it was a low angle week, here are a couple my dad took of Sydney a couple weeks ago.

He did a good job at the low angle!

Weekly Photo: Week 5, From A High Angle

This week of the photo challenge was a picture from a high angle. I'm assuming this means taking a picture looking down. So I got on a chair outside and snapped a few of Sydney. She was the only one around and it was hot, but she was a good sport about it. Plus I love taking pictures of Sydney. My whole Instagram is full of them. You can follow me here, @chantrump.

First picture. I didn't even have to bribe her with a treat. (Maybe that's why she likes her Dad more, she gets more treats out of him.) See my flowers in the pot? The petunia's are growing like crazy, and I haven't killed one single plant this year!

I love this face so much.

Mom, please no more pictures.

I'm done.

Okay, one more smile.

Next week of the photo challenge is "from a low angle". Maybe I can get Sydney to snap a few.......

In other photos.......

Here is Josh and I getting ready to go to our 10 year reunion! We had such a fun night!

We went down to my Dad and Brenda's this last Saturday. We're having a heat wave here in Oregon and they live down on the water. I forgot to take out my camera while we were there (must be the laziness of the heat), but as we were leaving a Blue Heron flew in. It was so cool to see him fly down, I wish I would have had my camera out. But here is a picture of him just hanging out.

Hope you are staying cool where ever you are!