thanks kolanutt.

Here is Pancho with his sidekick Gracie. ( I know she looks a little alien-like but we love her too) :)

Here is Pancho the Wonder Pug...

I'm also going to add my endorsement of Bryan's book...it really helped me.

I think of the "exposure triangle" like this

ISO (how many faucets you have going at one time)

Shutter speed (how long you turn the faucet on for)

Aperture (the diameter of your faucet)


For every picture, you have to have a certain amount of water...call it 100 gallons. At 100 gallons, the picture is perfectly exposed.

To get that 100 gallons, you could do a few things:

1.) Leave the faucet on for longer (lowering your shutter speed)

2.) Get a larger faucet (lowering your fstop)

3.) Get more faucets (increasing ISO)


So as you said...why do one over the other?


As Bryan said in his book...this is the decision you make based on your goal...you set these elements in relationship to each other based on your goal...stopping action? You need a high shutter speed. Blur the background? You need a large aperture. Night/low light shooting without something to steady our camera? You need high ISO.

Does that make sense?

Those are nice shots; well done!

I like #1, and #2 best and I agree with the suggestion to crop tighter... it made an amazing difference.