Jan 8th

We celebrated Austins Birthday today and I will post the pics later. I had already downloaded the prior pics before celebrating. So again I will update this tomorrow. And sorry for the crazy posts we are on dhs schedule which is throwing us all off lol.

Happy Birthday Austin!!

Today was DS#1's birthday. He turned 9 today. Where the heck did time go? We didn't get to celebrate his actual Birthday today cause daddy is working. So we will celebrate tomorrow. He was too busy playing the xbox, so I experimented with DD since she is such a ham. Any way here are a few pics with her and the new background. Gotta play with my DOF again with my lights. I haven't gotten everything just right yet :( but with 300 and some odd pics to go I am sure I will get it lol. I know that I blew her shirt and arms, but I am determiced to get there lol. First one is I don't think this is right but ISO 100, 1/6th again, F 8, and 105mm. Same for the second except it is 120mm.

Jan 6th Photo

Thought this Sanddollar that we found in Cancun this year on Vacation would look really nice on the black. Since I was getting my lights out for the new background I figured this would be the perfect day to shoot it. ISO 100, 1/10th, F 16 and at 135mm. So what do you think?

Jan 5th Photo

This is a pic of my brand new background. It is called America. I really like it, it is a 10 X 20 and I hope to get lots of use out of it with my involvement with http://www.oplove.org/. Lighting isn't great but I wanted to go ahead and hang it up to get the creases out. This was shot at ISO 100, 1/6th, F 3.5 and 35mm.

Jan 4th Photo

The kids and I discussed the USA during our lessons today. After putting together this map I decided to play with the DOF again and focus on the state of TX. I think I like how it turned out. Here are the specifics ISO 800, 1/250th, F 1.7 and 50mm. No flash

Jan 3rd Photo

Here is a Pinecone again really hard to think of something to shoot. Been wet and cold here and just haven't felt like going out. So again playing with my lighting. Wound up having to shoot with my flash. Couldn't get it just right without opening my lens up pretty wide. At SS125 I would blow it but at 160 it was underexposed. So I did tweek it in photoshop. So this is what I got ISO 200, 1/60, F3.5 at 50mm.

Garlic

Here is my photo for Jan. 2nd. Sorry I am behind. I had no clue what to photograph today. But I was experimenting with my lighting. The specs on this pic is ISO 100, 1/10th, F 16 and 80mm. This was shot with 2 studio lights on in the front and to the left the other in the back and to right.