is happiness sporting a tre chic paper bag vest.

happy thanksgiving to my US readers.

happy day to the rest.

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edited for jodi, figured more people might want to know how i took these. its really easy to take photos indoors with no flash, with a digital camera. you change your white balance setting to whatever light you are shooting in. in anna’s classroom the lighting is fluorescent, so my white balance was changed to that. i also brought my ISO up as high as it would go, and i shot in manual. if you dont know how to shoot in manual, choosing the AV function (aperture priority) is the next best thing for this situation because it wont allow your camera to flash. scroll your aperture down to the lowest number it will go. (aperture is the number on the right side of the meter display, 4.5, 5.6, etc. most average lenses will go as low as 5.6, if you have a better lens, it will go even lower. the lens i shot these with goes to 2.8. the lower the number, the more light your lens will “see”.) then, just watch your shutter speed (number on the left). you dont want it to go lower than 90 to be on the safe side. if its going lower than 90, you just dont have enough light to shoot. you can push it of course, test and see how low you can go before the image gets too blurry, a shutter speed of 90 is just a guide.

to sum up:

1. change white balance

2. bump up your ISO

3. switch to manual or aperture priority

4. watch shutter speed

(if you dont know how to do any of this, look it up in your manual, its really easy!)