12 Weeks to Better Photos

Remember back in February when I started the '12 Weeks to Better Photos' tutorial?

http://jenandjarrod.blogspot.com/2010/02/12-weeks-to-better-photos.html

Well, with packing and moving, I took a break from it and never remembered to 'restart' it until a few friends have mentioned learning how to use their new cameras. So, I restarted the tutorial.

Week 2 was about shutter speed and ISO. Here are two photos I took of running water using different shutter speeds.

Then, after playing around with it enough and seeing the way the water looked with different shutter speeds, I snapped this photo of Gavin's hand in the tub that night.

Could I tell someone exactly how to get a photo like this? Probably not....I'm still playing around with the camera and learning it. But, I do realize now how different a photo can turn out with different shutter speeds! Now, on to week 3....