A bad habit.
I bet you all thought I was going to take a picture of diet coke. Wrong! I love diet coke, I indulge probably more than I should but I don’t consider it bad in the sense that it’s my vice. Instead I decided to go way back to the habit that has been plaguing me for as long as I can remember.
Shot in portrait mode again because it’s the easiest when shooting myself.
ISO 800
Aperture 2.8
Today’s challenge is fruit. I decided to keep these really clean and do very little editing to them. I was surprised it only took a minimal amount of pleading to get them to agree to being shot, you’d think I was forcing them to go to the dentist with they way they act about getting their picture taken.
Settings are
ISO: 200
Aperture (I finally learned to spell that without spell check 
): 2.8 (seems to be my lens’s sweet spot)
Speed: 1/640 slightly over exposed, but I’m learning that slightly over exposing is my camera’s sweet spot.
From a low angle
I went to the one that lets me shoot them the most often, Boo. He loves to have his picture taken, the other two run or put their hands up the little punks. I have dozens of pictures of them blocking my shot or photobombing, I will get some of them in all of this, I think I will just have to be stealthy about it. This shot was pretty easy. Taken in the evening, I was shooting Stewart flying his plane and Drew let me shoot him too. I just got down on the grass and shot up.
Taken with my Sigma lens
Since I had been shooting Stew flying my settings were more for that.
F/stop 6.3
ISO 400
Speed 1/500
Something green and something from a high angle.
When I first read something green, my mind went to nature, I was thinking grass, trees, my tomato plants, but I decided on something a bit different and less predictable. I decided to shoot one of my favorite things ever, my Kindle, in it’s green case.
Day 5 is something from a high angle. I’m going back to my easy model here. This picture is about 2 weeks old and I’m totally cheating, but hey, I’ve been busy so this will have to do.
Today’s challenge was clouds. I loved today’s challenge. I waited most of the day for good clouds to appear and with the sunset it didn’t disappoint. I tried shooting with my aperture all the way closed at 22 to see the difference it made and to make sure it was all in focus.S
Settings:
Lens, again with my 50
F/stop: 22
ISO: 100
Speed: 1/80
Day 2 is what I wore today.
I didn’t really care for this one, it required me getting a little creative with shooting myself which proved to be more difficult than I expected. I’m not quite happy with this so I expanded the photos a little and gave myself some extra leeway.
For my picture I shot in portrait mode suing my standard lens.
F/stop 3.5
ISO 800
The other two were shot with my 50mm 1.8 lens (my favorite)
F/stop 1.8
Speed 1/25 (slow I know, I needed to adjust my ISO)
ISO 800
F/stop 2
speed 1/50
ISO 800
Being the master procrastinator that I am I’ve been putting off doing this until I have more free time. Then I realized that is never really going to happen so I may as well make time. I have an older SLR that I have outgrown, but seeing as how my money tree died in my backyard and every time I have a little money saved up something seems to happen to hinder my plan of upgrading. I’ve decided to make the best of what I have now. I figure then when I can actually afford to invest in a decent camera I will truly be ready for the upgrade. I found on Pinterest ( if you aren’t on there let me know and I’ll send you an invite) the 30 day photography challenge and I said “Challenge accepted”.
Today’s challenge is a self portrait.
Shot on manual,
F/stop 3.5
1/160
ISO 1600
Taken in my bedroom.
There is quite a following it Mormon blogs. I follow many, I am addicted to the fashion on this one. www.laviepetite.blogspot.com I want one of her skirts but her Etsy shop has been sold out for a while, I’m hoping to have a shot at winning this skirt (a long one I know). Anyway, check her out she has some really cute fashion tips.
I’m serial posting now.
I finished one of the toughest knits ever, it was so gratifying. The pattern was originally in Danish so it was a little confusing at times. It was partly lace, and lace and me struggle to have a relationship. Once I got past the first few set up rows it got easy though. The yarn is Madelinetosh again, I’m addicted her yarn, it is stunning and washable. I am officially a yarn snob. This took almost a month to make but there was little on TV so that slowed me down, thank heavens for audio books, I got through another murder mystery. Off topic but you have any suggestions for good gritty murder mysteries I would love it, I don’t like the Stephanie Plum novels, too fluffy. Okay back to the dress. Because it was lace I didn’t make many changes. The only two things I did differently was to change the style of one of the decreases from knit 2 through the back loop to slip slip knit and then on the sleeves I did 4 rows of seed stitch instead of the 10 to make it a little daintier. I am in love with it and can’t wait to give it to my niece Adelle.
Getting that perfect shot is awesome and when you are a budding photographer it’s even more exciting. One of my favorite parts about photography is the editing process, I love photoshop and all that it can do.
The following is a photo of my very photogenic sister. She lets me log in hundreds of pictures of her often for practice, I know it is painstaking for her but someone has to do and my kids are sick of it, except Drew, he is always asking for me to take a picture while dances.
Okay so here is her photo completely unedited. It’s a good shot, I’m mostly excited about the lighting on it. Lighting is where I struggle the most as a photographer and I feel that just shooting her that day I learned so much about light and it’s position. So then I started fiddling with it in photoshop and came out with some other versions.
This one I added a touch of sunshine to bring out the light and the Pioneer woman’s seventies action.
I washed this one out a little bit just messing around and thought it was a nice touch as well.
Burnt the edges and gave it a retro feel
This was a poloroid action that I love
A lightly different poloroid action that washed it out a little more
I like the distortion of color in this even if it does give her skin more of a red undertone
I’m not in love with this one at all but I had to include it for research purposes
This one was one action that was pretty similar to the first one I did, I like it.
And the final one because I know everyone is thinking it
Photoshop is so fun, it is even better when you have a great photo to start with though, like this one.
