Passing time by playing with my Lensbaby.

If you have not seen a Lensbaby lens in action, you should look at their website. www.lensbaby.com I got a great shot of Mia’s eyes and hopefully a couple more. I will post them after we get home. If we ever get home. Jeffrey

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Updated 12/27/2009

WUSTL Soccer Alumni Game

Yesterday I was lucky enough to play in the WUSTL Soccer Alumni game.  (No, the photo above is not me making a save.)  I believe this was my 17th alumni game.  Unfortunately it might be my last.  While in the net, I was out at the top of the box when a long ball was played down the attacking right wing, my left.  It was not going to be caught by the winger, but out of habit I sort of shuffled/jogged back towards the goal line.  As I was going I felt a very sharp pain in my right calf.  Almost as if I had just been hit with a rock or for some reason I thought perhaps a golf ball.  I started looking around for whatever just hit me, but found nothing.  It was right about then that I knew I was done.  Strained calf, out for the game.  Actually it is still tough to walk on today.  I can’t stretch my right calf.  Try walking without stretching one calf muscle.  It is hard to do.

Fortunately this put me back on the sideline, with a camera in my hand.  A much safer place for me.  Unfortunately the Alumni ended up losing 2-0.  I sure it would have been worse if I played longer.  The Alumni were skilled and strong, the images below show Matt Twardowski easily shruging off an attack from behind and jogs away.

It was a great showing by alumni, even if the score did not end up in our favor.  We had over 20 alumni play and even had three alum who played in the 60′s.

To see the rest of the photos from the game, visit my SmugMug.com page.

Thanks for reading my ramblings.

Jeffrey

Photo Of The Day 02/10/09 – Water Fountain

The school Olivia attends, Jackson Park Elementary is an old building with some great architecture.  Sure, some of the rooms are a little outdated, but they have the best back splashes at their water fountains.  We were at the school this evening for a Passport Festival and Mia wanted to get a drink of water.  Since I had my camera with me, I took the opportunity to photograph the cool fish that is above the water fountain.  I just wish I knew what the original set up for the fountain and the roll the fish played. 

Camera:  Pentax K20 with Pentax DA18-55mm lens ISO = 800, Aperture=4.0 and the exposure was 1/8 of a second.

Lighting:  School Hall lighting

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Photo Of The Day 02/08/09 – Flower Print

Jennifer recently put this old flower print I got from my grandparents’ home on a side table under a funky lamp we also got from my grandparents’ home.  The first thing I noticed was if the light was on, then the light from the lamp mimics the lighting in the flower image.  Typically we don’t ever have the lamp on, but I could not resist this photo.  I don’t think Jennifer ever noticed the connection.

Camera:  Pentax K20 with Pentax FA50mm prime lens ISO = 400, Aperture=1.4 and the exposure was 1/90 of a second.
Lighting:  That lamp, right there in the photogrpah

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Photo Of The Day 02/07/09 – Home Depot

Today we went to Home Depot with Olivia’s scout troop for a fun day of making wood trinket boxes.  I did bring along my camera to photograph some memories.  It was a fun time, but I did not make a single fantastic photo.  The one above is probably my favorite.  Mia was very excited to get her own apron, complete with her name as well as a pin and the opportunity to make something cool.  The woman in the background of this photo was very kind even though Mia played shy and did not really say a word to her.

Olivia’s scout troop seemed to really enjoy themselves and allowed me to photograph all of them at the very end.

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Camera:  Pentax K20 with Pentax DA18-55mm lens ISO = 200, Aperture=4.0 and the exposure was 1/45 of a second.
Lighting:  Home Depot lighting

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Photo Of The Day 02/06/09 – Comparison

I just picked up a new Pentax  DA 18-55mm lens and wanted to compare the image quality to that of my Pentax FA 50mm F1.4.  Here are two very similar images shot with two different lenses.  The top image is with my 50mm prime and the bottom one used my new 18-55mm.  I have to say, it took me a while to see any differences and I don’t think they are very significant.  However, after some major pixel peeing, I was able to determine that my new 18-55mm has slightly brighter or bolder colors.  This might be a little off because Olivia did move around as I was changing the lens and her position relative to the light might have something to do with the subtle difference.

Camera:  Pentax K20 with Pentax FA50mm prime for the top photo and my new Pentax DA18-55mm for the bottom photo.  To keep everything as similar as possible for both images ISO = 200, Aperture=11 and the exposure was 1/180 of a second.
Lighting:  Nikon SB-25 @ 1/2 power and 50mm zoom to camera left shot it into a very light khaki colored wall to camera right, about a foot from Olivia.  I then added fill light with a silver reflector to camera left.  Triggered with AlienBees CyberSyncs.

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