VZteacher

I used my Canon Powershot A520 to take my photos and the GMP software to resize pictures of our swingset. This was my original straight-on shot (the kind I usually take!) This one from the top of the slide was one of my favorites when I started trying different angles. Above is a photo I took by climbing into the slide fort and looking down. The swingset seemed a little unsteady with me up here, though! The photo above is one I tried taking from the angle from which a child might view the swingset. This technique is one that I want to start using more often now with the photographs I take of my son's special events. I think it would be cool to show things from his two-year-old perspective.
 * __Digital Camera Exploration__**

The most fun I had with the photo-taking was climbing all over the swingset and getting photos from all angles. I will often shoot photos from different sides, but I usually don't try to move around this much to get really creative photos from cool angles.

One problem I had with my choice of a swingset as a photo object was not being able to see much difference with the features (portrait, landscape, action, etc.) when I used them. The photos all looked very similar. I did make my son swing for a while and got to see the difference between using portrait versus action when he was moving.

The only frustration I really felt was that, because I probably took forty pictures of the swingset, I kept reaching the limit on my memory card. I need to get better about downloading photos to my computer promptly, or I need to get a card with more memory!