D-SLR - Improvised Studio Shots Part III

This was a shot I took a relatively long time ago, over the summer. I wanted to do a shot similar to the type you'd find in advertisements. After several takes, and 2 milk cups later (I had to drink the milk, I didn't want to waste it), I finally got the shot below.

This set up was pretty basic. After a painstakingly long search for an acorn that still had its cap attached to the main body, and hasn't been chewed out by a squirrel, I decided to bring it home to have a better controlled environment to take my shots in.

I set up a black bristol board, and used my tripod and some artists tape to keep it up. I then took my shots, which you can see below..

An Introduction to: D-SLR Photography

For those of you who don't know, D-SLR stands for "Digital - Single Lens Reflex". I find the Wikipedia description quite adequate enough to describe its differences from a normal digital camera -

" A D-SLR is a digital camera that uses a mechanical mirror system and pentraprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder at the back of the camera."

In layman's terms, simply because I don't quite get all the inner workings of a D-SLR itself, personally I'd describe it is a high resolution digital camera with more options like setting the lens aperture and shutter speed, as well as usually viewing your subject through an optical viewfinder instead of an LCD one. This also allows it to have real time changes made without and lag time at all, unlike some digital cameras on the market. But enough with all the technical info.

I've obtained a D-SLR camera from my dad, who had just gotten a new one and decided that I could have his old one. Although I can't take video with the D-SLR he gave me, it allows me to take professional level photographs already. Below are a couple experiments of pictures as I played around with the D-SLR on my free time.