15 days down...

     Well I am at the half way point of the photo challenge, and i can honestly say that it hasn't been too bad.  There are some days that I take 30+ pictures and others that i take about 10 if I am lucky.  Too bad the iPhone didn't have better cameras in them.  (Ha)  But I have loved discovering Instagram too, it makes some of the quick no camera photos pretty nice.
     But seriously this challenge has been a positive.  I think more about the photos that I am taking; from the ones of my sweet girls to the ones of nature and our garden.  I do feel like I need to broaden my subjects that I capture in a photo but I am getting there...baby steps.  I will say that I have begun to realize how to change what the subject is and what needs to be faded out more in the photo.  And then in editing some of my pictures I have kicked myself in the rear that I did not get the picture more crisp and less grainy/blurred.  I have really liked not using the flash on the camera - thank you ISO setting and playing around with that.  It is amazing what you can try to get with the natural light and changing things on the camera.  But I am so novice on all this I know there is huge room for improvement.
     I am still trying to give the aperture settings a whirl.  I love how the professionals can get the subject to be super clear and backgrounds blurred.  I have read, re-read, and re-read the information the the Momtographie class gave me and I think that I may need to invest in a different lens to capture that look in the photos that I am trying to achieve.  And I also have problems with getting the camera to capture fast enough when I alter certain settings in this aperture change.  I am not giving up, rather just stumped at the moment.  Has anyone out there ever used a 35mm lens on these cameras?  Or what about the portrait ones?  I am almost more afraid to buy the new lens than I am to try it.  I am foreseeing a trip to Murphy's camera store in the near future.
    Well stay tuned, I have 16 days to go and if it is successful I may do another month.  Who knows I may end up doing this the full 365 Challenge.  And maybe it will be with a new lens or the tried and true one that came with my camera.  Now if only certain subjects would hold still...