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This photo does not really capture the beauty of the area.  I wish that I would have had more time to set up the shot and adjust for the lighting.  Unfortunately, this scene is across the street from a gas station and I only had as much time as it took my husband to pump the gas.

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Shutter priority is still my weak spot.  I am still figuring out speed vs brightness. 

88/365 and the Frisco Festival

Since I am officially caught up now on my 365 I can start to concentrate on more than getting caught up.  We went to a street fair the other day.  I have an unofficial list of photographs that I want to take and a really good Farris wheel photo is on that list.  I hope that I have accomplished it.
88/365

This was also taken at the street fair.  It was very warm that day and they had a water gun station set up.  Not exactly sure what kind it really was but they filled it up with the water hose after every shot.  I was lucky enough to capture these kids getting a good spray.  The sign on the wall behind is a Coca-Cola sign.  It was a complete coincidence that the sign behind them says refreshing.

I took my inspiration for these from Katie Lloyd's carnival photos.  I used the Velvet Cream action from the Coffee Shop Blog on all of the photos.

Finally caught up!! Days 82 - 87/365

Today I went around getting photos just so that I could get caught up.  Go me!
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Water bug.  I like how you can see the indention in the water where it's legs are touching.  You can see the shadow of the bug in the lower left corner.
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This water was so cold and lovely.  I love the rainbow water sparkles under the water.
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The stick in the water reminds me of a snail or maybe Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars.
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El Camino.  We visited a car show today.  Old cars are so lovely!  And they make me want to drive really fast!
87/365

Rubber ducky... you're the one...

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

I am a little late getting this posted... but it is still Sunday, so it counts.

Seeing Double
This is actually just a test shot that I took at a local park this week.  I was scouting a location to use for a maternity session and wanted to make sure that there would be a reflection in the water from the bank.  After I edited the photo, I decided that there was too much green in the photo and that it was just sort of blah!  So I put it into black and white... still blah!  Half and half though I liked.

Whatever
I don't know how much more whatever you can get than the exoskeleton of a bug.  

Sweet
I thought about doing some sort of food here, but instead I went with this one of my daughter playing her aunt's ipod.  She was using an app to make cookies and cupcakes (no really she was) so it fits in quite nicely.

Space
Limitless fields and sky.  Plenty of  space to run.  See I made it make sense.

Bright
You can't get any brighter than the sun.

 

Hello Gorgeous Colour Challenge

As I was reading over blog posts this morning, I came across this brand new photo challenge posted by Hello Gorgeous.  When I saw the photo, I knew right away what I would do to it... so I did.

This was a color pallet challenge (I left off the pallets to get a better fit in the frames).  I used the pink from the pallet to give the edit more of a sunset type feel to it.  I used the green to go back over some of the trees and grass to highlight. And did a soft layer of the lightest grey.  I also added a gaussian blur to give it that dreamy fairy tale look.  I softened the foreground so the focus would be on the water and bridge.  Finally, I used The Coffee Shop Blog's Perfect Portrait 2 for my final touches.
I hope that my edit comes across like the image that I was trying for.  Since this is the first time that I have ever done a color pallet challenge I would LOVE any feedback that anyone might have to offer.

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61/365

5 on Friday

1:  This week we went to the beach.

Okay, you caught me.  We didn't really go to the beach.  We live in a completely land-locked state.  No beaches near us.  Kiera and I just played in the driveway with the water hose.  Not quite as exciting, I know.

2:  We did go to the lake though.  We literally got there at sunset.  This gave me the opportunity to try something new.  Silhouettes.

3:  Can laundry be dramatic?  It isn't even MY laundry... and it is no where near finished.  Probably another 3 days of washing. *sigh*

4:  I love the actions by The Coffee Shop Blog!  They have some great ones and they are all free!  LOVE IT!
5:  An idea for a really cool picture entered my mind the other day.  Camera + Cheerleader = really neat motion photo.
FAIL!

Believe it or not there is a cheerleader stunting all the way across the yard in this photo.  I couldn't see her either.  It was a good idea... guess I need to study on it a little.  I did manage to get some good flip pictures though.

Kiera is a cheerleader in training.  Her aunt is teaching her how to be a flyer.  Of course, her daddy has been training her for this since she was 6 months old.

There must have been a bird.


That was my week... how was yours?

21/365

Playing in the water. 

20/365

Sunset at the lake.  I still didn't have my picture yet and the sun was about to go down when we decided to take Kiera to the lake for a few minutes.  This was shot in aperture mode with the light metered on the water.

5/365

Sprinklers at sunset.

3/365

Once again I am posting after midnight.  Well at least I am getting my day in.  If I hadn't played so long in photoshop then maybe I would have met my deadline. 
I have been reading many blogs lately.  I came across a post from Jill Samter Photography about water droplets.
My experiment did not turn out quite as well as in the tutorial but it was still fun to try.  I used one of my studio lights and my kit lens.  I was really wishing for a macro lens today but I think that I still got some good shots.  Today was all about learning.  I actually shot all of these photos in Manual.  They turned out a bit better than yesterday's failed efforts.  Although the ISO is a little high in a few and are a bit grainy.  But if you can't tell which ones, I am not going to tell you which.