I had left my 50mm lens on my camera, in an attempt to learn more about it.
I was so busy during the day, that I didn’t take any time to capture anything with it. On my way home from my evening meeting, I just opened my car windows and started grabbing frames, changing to manual focus and mixing up the settings (when I could safely do so).
This was one of my last outside photos. I upped the light gathering by two f stops, which really pushes the limits of the camera’s ability without introducing a huge amount of noise - graininess.
In color, my first thought was wow, this gathered a ton of light and kept detail. I couldn’t get the color the way I wanted it, so I changed to grayscale, and fiddled with the contrast settings. I’m really happy with the result.
I get an almost spooky feel from the photo. The street light is really illuminating the foreground tree, which adds to the effect.
Fun pushing the limits. =)
A citizen of the avenues, bag-festooned grocery cart nearby, putting his recycling efforts to work in a dumpster. At first, he was content to search for recoverable items from outside the container. Then he dove in, literally.
I’m not sure what he found, but he was providing for himself, as well as for yours and my eyes. I especially liked his two or more caps keeping his head warm.
Fare thee well, fellow inhabitant of the Earth.
Lit by candlelight and a bit of fill flash.
I just like the look on her face.
She did a 30 minute trek in the backyard this afternoon, and came back in with 165 photos taken! I whittled it down to 51 and added my grabs from the Pasfield Park snow-sledding.
I like this one of the next door neighbor’s fence. The snow drifts, the rough sawn wood planks and the shadow beyond the fence, all add to a real nice texture effect that says Winter to me.
Karen is so talented with her composition and framing. I learn from her every time she lets herself go like this. We’re looking forward to more time together when we can share this love of photography and put it into action.
As an aside, I’m really loving Adobe Lightroom, which is still in Beta, but which is about to go live. It’s workflow is so easy
Windy today. Gusts to 38 miles per hour.
I was driving back home and took the long way, looking for scenes of interest, as is my pattern these days.
Traveling about 55 miles per hour down the road, I spied short stretches of road in a whiteout. The wind was blowing hard and fast across wide open fields where corn or beans had been growing but were now gone.
The new snow was being whisked across the road in such a frenzy that the road and any cars passing through disappeared in a wall of wind-whipped snow.
I grabbed my camera and set it for to as wide a view as I had with the telephoto lens that was on it. Stuck it out the window with one hand and held onto the wheel with the other.
(Don’t do this at home or in your cars folks - I’m crazy)
This is the best of the bunch that I took.
I like it in this contrasty black & white version.
I love seeing what comes out of my camera after one of these chance grabs.
By taking more opportunities in different situations, I’m learning what I can do. I’m learning my camera and what looks good.
It’s amazing how much a different day or hour, or attitude has on my vision.
Last night, I was pushing myself to finish a set of photos and get them all uploaded to Flickr before I allowed myself to rest in the arms of Morpheus (sleep!). My work suffered because of that pushing.
Tonight I saw something that I was not seeing last night and my work benefited from the second glance. I was able to pull more out of a raw image than I could have while tired.
Christina brings the most marvelous flute tones out of her instrument (she called it her baby last night!). I am so grateful that she shares this talent with our church community. She also speaks fluent German and once was about to teach it in High School. These days, she is the Majordomo (or manager, not sure of her title) of a Symphony Orchestra, making sure that everything is where it needs to be. An exhausting job, I’m sure.
Her smile lights up the room as much as her precious flute ability.
I was making up for two days. Took pictures throughout the day.
This is a portrait of Julie, after choir practice tonight.
A quick take, and some post processing mojo and here you are.
I like the upward glance she was giving me, and the small smile.
