Photograph Of The Day 01/19/09 – The Three Lettermen
Camera: Pentax K20 50mm prime lens ISO 400 Aperture f/8 Exposure 1/45
Lighting: SB-25 @ 1/2 power into a silver umbrella at camera left + Pentax 360 @ 1/4 power at camera right, both triggered with triggered with AlienBees CyberSyncs. Plus the sun light coming in through windows.
The reason behind this image is mostly for practice. I have a couple ideas for composite images I want to make, but I have never done something like this. So I grabbed my three letter jackets (just to make it interesting) and gave it a shot. I see a couple little editing errors, but that is mostly due to just wanting to get it up quickly. I am cheap, so the editing was all done with GIMP, a great open source image manipulation program.
At least now I know I can make the images I have in my head. I wonder if they will look as good as they look in my head. Stay tuned.
For those who are interested the jackets are from: (left to right) Kaiserslautern American H.S., Germany; Doherty H.S., Colorado; Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
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Photo Of The Day 01/18/09 – Mia & a 50mm, 1.4
Camera: Pentax K20 50mm prime lens ISO 800 Aperture f/1.7 Exposure 1/30
Lighting: Light from 60 bulb on camera right with some added backlighting from window
If you listen to the podcast, This Week In Photography (TWIP), you know they recommend everyone get a fast 50mm lens. I got mine this past summer. If you read my original POTD post you know that I chose it to be the only lens I use for my POTD photos. I thought the fact that it is a prime lens and I can only zoom by moving my feet would make me work a little harder to compose a good photo and hopefully help me improve by adding that restriction. We shall see at the end of the year.
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Reverse Engineering an Avocado
Ok, perhaps not exactly reverse engineering anything, but that is what came to me and I found it funny. Here is the truth.
Messing around on Twitter I found @HamToastDotCom and went to look at his website and Flickr page. I found his macro photos very interesting. After reading his post, “Reverse the lens, how and why” I decided to give it a try.
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Photo Of The Day 01/17/09 – Bundled up for ice cream
In October 2008 the Vaughn girls, Olivia and Mia’s best friends and neighbors moved to Wenatchee, Washington. We have been able to keep in touch with Jaeda & Britt through the magic of technology with Skype, email, and such. However, there is nothing like actual playing together. Especially for young children. This weekend their mom had to come in town for work and she brought the girls for a surprise visit. Well it was not a surprise for Jennifer and me, fortunately.
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Photo Of The Day 01/15/09 – Mia Underwater
I have missed the past three days due to life. I was not sure about today until I was helping Mia with her bath and she wanted to get her hair wet all by herself, a common theme with Mia. She wanted to know if it was ok that she kept her eyes closed, because she did not like water in them.
Nothing else fancy about the photo, it pretty much is what it is. I did a bit of color correction and other minor adjustments in Lightroom.
Camera: Pentax K20 50mm prime lens ISO 400 Aperture f/2.0 Exposure 1/30
Lighting: Tungsten light fixture bouncing off yellow walls & white tiles.
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Life gets in the way…
Unfortunately being a dad has gotten in the way of shooting. I have not been able to make the time in the evening to make any photographs. Plus at work I have been so busy that I don’t have tome to stop and make any photographs. Life is getting in the way. I don’t expect to have time today either, but I think I might take my camera, just in case. Yesterday on the way to a meeting I saw a bunch of geese that would have been a pretty cool subject, but I did not have my camera. Lesson learned.