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As is our tradition with most major holidays, we go over to Curt and Maryann’s for celebration and wonderful food. With Curt being a rehabilitated chef, you can always count on having more food than you need and great friends.
I got a few more photos from the evening that I have uploaded to my flickr page in the Christmas 2009 set.
Of course we always stay too late whenever we visit Curt & Maryann, but with it being Christmas the girls were up and ready to go at 5:43am. (I was so hoping to make it until 6.)
This year the girls went straight for their stockings and seemed pretty pleased, but the big fun came from the gifts under the tree.
This year I took a chance and gave Jennifer something she has said she wanted, but never asked for as a gift. Although many of the women I worked with advised me against it, I got Jennifer a very fancy, stainless steel, long lasting, nose hair trimmer.
Naturally I dressed it up in a fancy jewelry box and gave it to her at the very end. Only fitting for such an important gift. But I think it was a good choice, because she did excuse herself to go try it right away.
The frenzy ended within an hour and about 15 minutes after saying it was the best Christmas ever, both girls amazed me by saying they were bored. Bored at 7am on Christmas morning?!?! I just don’t get it.
Fortunately, they realized that was just silly and they started playing with some of their new toys.
(Sorry for the poor quality of the camera phone, it was what I had.)
Not too much later, Jennifer’s parents arrived and round two of gift giving commenced.
Needless to say, our house was covered with gifts and wrapping paper.
After all the gifts we opened, Jen and I made a nice dinner (although 90 minutes later than we planned) and we enjoyed the day.
I have more photos from the day posted on my Flickr page under the Christmas 2009 set. I did not get any amazing photos, but thanks to David Hobby (a.k.a. Strobist) I duplicated the lighting set up I had last year and was able to move all around the living room without worrying if the light would look good.
Now to dive into some of my gifts and see how I can make even better photos in 2010.
After four days of walking and running behind bikes for six hours per day, I have a few blisters. Out of 40 kids I think most all are up on two wheels, so a few blisters are not a big deal. Jeffrey
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Updated 12/23/2009
I wanted to try a lighting set up tonight. One where there is a light above the subject pointing down and another just below the subject pointing up. I believe it is a pretty common set up so I wanted to see what it does. It would work better with softboxes, but all I have are umbrellas, so that is what I used.
My hope was to get a really cool photo of one of my daughters. But Mia was a little too engrossed in her sister's Nintendo DS and Olivia just was not in the mood to model. I tried to get a good one of Olivia in the time she gave me, but I could not get the lighting just right, so I had to step in front of the camera. After a few attempts I got the lighting that I wanted, but then it took me another 20 shots to get one where I did not hate the look I had on my face. I am much better off on the other side of the lens.
So, as much as it pains me to say this, the photo of the day is not one of my beautiful daughters, but instead the one below of me. Not because I am a good subject, but because I like the lighting and this photo has more of the "feel" I was going for. I have included a shot of the lighting set up to give you something to look at besides me. If you can imagine my head was just below the top flash and a bit to the left. I was looking at the tripod that you can see just sticking over the top of the bottom umbrella.
Camera: Pentax K20 50mm prime lens ISO 200 Aperture f/5.6 Exposure 1/180
Lighting: SB-25 @ 1/8 power into a silver umbrella below and close + Pentax 360 @ 1/4 power above and a bit to the camera left, both triggered with triggered with AlienBees CyberSyncs.
See the rest of my Photo Of The Day posts here or just look at the photos on Flickr
Thanks for reading my ramblings,