Basics Revisited

It's time to go back and refresh a bit.  Nothing wrong with that.  I have taken the 12 Weeks to Better Photography course from twopeasinabucket.com in the past, and thought I would just go back and do them again as a refresher.  This course is perfect for anyone who is new to DSLR to learn about how manual settings work.  Week 1 is about aperture, and how your aperture affects your depth of field. 

I revisited, and added a few new things today.  I brought out my tripod since my lighting was poor this evening.  All I had was a lamp behind the train which caused a wicked backlighting situation.  Kind of fun to play with.  I also got a simple camera remote for Christmas.   Low light + tripod = perfect time to test out the new remote.  It works, and it is a nifty little device that will open up lots of new possibilities.  Especially in my low natural lighting dungeon of a home.  :) 

I shot from the same position, with 800 ISO (did I say the lighting was awful yet?), and changed the aperture and shutter speed for each shot.  I converted each from RAW to jpeg, but did not mess with the original shot in post processing.  Note the change in what is in focus with each aperture setting.