Child Life...

The image to the bottom right was taken with the intention of capturing my daughters joy of playing with in the woods with the leaves. I was attempting to show the leaves sharp and frozen but due to poor light was unable to use a quick enough shutter speed. I had to use a wide aperture of f4.5 a shutter speed of 1/25second and ISO set at 100. By doing this it has created something else, a sence of the movement of the leaves is shown and with a few pictures taken I was able to show my daughters face and have the leaves in a blur all around her.

The above photo was taken at 7.10pm as the sun was begining to set. I used a small apature of f13 coupled with shutter speed of 1/6 sec to try andshow the back ground in focus. This has worked slightly as it is not a complete blur in the backgound I think I was to close to the subject for it to work properly.
Below I shot this scene with the intention of framing my daughter with the natural opening of the setting , with the foregound and the trees around her.I hoped to capture a sense of her owning the surroundings a feeling of her being in charge. The light wasn't the best but there was enough.  I'm pleased with my daughter's expression but feel the background let the image down as the colours have faded away.

Below I asked my daughter not to smile but to just look out over the scene and try to look serious. This took a few takes as she kept smiling and moving around.