This picture is out of focus but it did catch a cool effect of slower shutter speed with a car going by.

This is the shot where I tried to make it so you could discern one droplet from the next and it worked out pretty well.

This shot was a lot darker than this but with a few changes to the settings it came out a lot brighter. If you look close ,you can see a lot of stars. I could not even see most of these with the naked eye.

Here is the larger version of the roses in bloom. I finally figured out how to do this.

Part III

As you all can see I do not get out of the house much. I am now taking pics of my roses. They were perfect for the exercise though. The one where the background is not in focus I took at an f-stop of 5.6 with the shutter speed at 1/125 and the other shot is f-stop of 22 and shutter speed is the same.

Part II

For this part I tried changing the ISO and the f-stop to see the effects. I think I would have gotten a better shot if I would have changed the shutter speed to lighten it up as well. I guess the question from me is "what ISO settings are better for the night shots versus day shots?". Does it really have much effect? These pictures were taken behind my house after one of the rare rainy days in Arizona. Any feedback here would be great. I also included some pictures trying to evaluate the difference in shots of water when changing the shutter speed and the aperture (again here....does the ISO matter). These pics were taken outside of my house. Thanks for the feedback all.

Part I

Here are the photos I took for part one. I did not get very creative here. I just took my family down to a near by park and then shot a bunch of pictures changing the shutter speed each time. Simple exercise but it tought me a lot about shooting in low light.