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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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.
Photo Of The Day 01/04/09
My choice today is not so much because it is a great photo, but because my dog rarely stays still long enough to get a good photo. Today, however, while at the park Lily saw a family leaving their house and getting into a car. She stopped and watched. The funny think is the house was about 100 yards away. Oh well, she was still.
Camera: Pentax K20 50mm prime lens ISO 200 Aperture f/2 Exposure 1/3000 (more…)
BlackBerry Flipping
While at the park today I was inspired by a photo made by Chase Jarvis. (web) It was made on his iPhone and looks to me like he flipped the phone as the shutter clicked. (link) I thought, my BlackBerry takes really crappy photos and has a long delay between hitting the button and the shutter actually going.
My idea was to hit the button and flip the phone to see what I could get. After a couple tries I got two that are interesting. Both have my girls in them. The first is Olivia chasing Lily, running from the photo’s right to left. The purple blob is Mia.
The next has Olivia & Mia standing in front of a pine tree with leaves all around on the ground. So what do you think? Add your thoughts in the comments.