so excited!

So I'm pretty excited tonight. I have a photographer friend who sat down with me today and gave me a mini tutorial on my manual setting. I have been shooting on manual but still have so many questions. I learned so much today and was so excited to practice what I learned. So this afternoon and tonight I got to do just that. I didn't use my flash with any of these, and many of them are taken indoor. I have finally found and have a better understanding of my aperature/f-stop and also my shutter speed. I think I have the ISO down pat. It's pretty exciting when I finally "get it." It's as if a lightbulb went off. So here is some of the pictures I took using an aperature of 5.6 and different shutter speeds and ISO settings.
This was taken around 5 p.m. in my backyard. My shutter speed was set at 1/125 and my ISO at 400

 This one at 1/50 and ISO 400

 this one at 1/100 and 400 ISO

 I then came inside and took this in the boys room with the natural light coming in from the window. My settings were 1/2 and ISO 400, I should have set my ISO at 800 and used a faster shutter speed. But I still like how it turned out.  A tad grainy but that's what you get when you shoot at a slow shutter speed. I don't have the most steady hands.

 I took this one of me in the bathroom. It was dark outside by this point so I only had the bathroom light on. 1/10 at 800 ISO, I really like the lighting.

 And then I took this of Jadon's water dragon, Jasper. He has heat lamps so I was able to up my shutter speed to 1/30 at 800 ISO.

And I saved my favorite for last. Anna had her nightstand light on and ceiling fan light on. This was taken at 1/10 and 1600 ISO. 

I can't wait to practice tomorrow with more daylight.