02.29.08

Posting This Might Just Get Me In Big Trouble

Note: Friends rock.

85mm lens | 1/640 @ f/2.8 | ISO 200
pp: cropped, defogged, crisp color boost, resize and sharpen for web

02.28.08

Pouting

Note: I don’t even remember over WHAT. And it was only 5 hours ago….. I think I need to go to bed.

28-200mm lens @ 70mm | 1/200 @ f/5.6 | ISO 400
pp: defog, crisp color boost, deep saturation action, resize and sharpen for web

02.27.08

One of These Beasts Got a Bath Today

Note: I won’t tell you which one, but I’ll give you a hint: The one attempting to guard the treat from the invading infidel.

85mm lens | 1/350 @ f/3.5 | ISO 400
pp: adjusted shadows and contrast in ACR, defog, crisp color boost, resize and sharpen for web

Oh sure, that wasn’t enough a hint, was it, you big whiner… Fine. Here. This is who got a bath:

Note: He’s very very proud of himself. And also probably weighs about 20 pounds less. That is the approximate weight of the amount of fur I brushed off of him this afternoon.

85mm lens | 1/320 @ f/3.5 | ISO 400
pp: defog, crisp color boost, deep saturation boost, high sharpen pass, resize and sharpen for web

02.26.08

Self-Portrait Tuesday: Giving You The Willies With That “You’re Being Watched” Feeling Edition

Note: I had an idea for a picture and I couldn’t get it to work. Not cold enough outside, I think. (sorry for those of you living where it is for 100% certain it would have been cold enough outside. You know. Where it’s like below 65 degrees or whatever.) At any rate, I’ll have to keep that idea for another time and just focus on creeping you out Big Time with this one instead.

not looking up settings. Too tired. So there.

02.25.08 – Featured Student

By Marla Laramie

Note: One of the assignments asks the students to create both a white backdrop and a black backdrop using only a difference in dynamic range. This was Marla’s image and it made me catch my breath the moment I saw it.
Note2: Want to see more of Marla’s work?
Visit her at either her Photography Business Website or at her Personal Blog

02.25.08

Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches

Note: These were upscale PB&B Sammies — honey mixed in with the PB, then grilled in butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar. That’s right. You got it. SO YUM. For a more specific recipe, go to HERE on the Food Network
Note2: My kids spend ALL of ANY meal giggling at each other. You’d think it was cute. But it’s NOT. Because if they are giggling they are NOT EATING. Which means they spend 45 minutes sitting at the table doing NOTHING.
Note3: But it makes a great picture!

16-35mm @ 35mm | 1/60 @ f/3.2 | ISO 1600 – fluorescent lights only
pp: crisp color boost, adjusted saturation, resized and sharpened for web

02.24.08

She See’s Love Where Anyone Else Would See Weeds

Note: Dandelions always remind me of a song by Five Iron Frenzy about how a child brings the mom flowers and how most people see them as weeds, but how the mom knows that they flowers were brought with a huge heart full of love and then creates that vivid mental/emotional picture to paint a picture of our personal relationship with Jesus – how we see our offerings as weeds, but how God understands the heart behind them. I love that song. Lost the CD in The Great Divorce CD Separation of 2005. Sad. It was a good CD. I totally forgot about that until today. Itunes, here I come.
Note2: Want to read the lyics to the song? Sure you do! go here:
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Five-Iron-Frenzy/Dandelions.html

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | ss that I’m too lazy to look up right now @ f/2.8 | ISO 400
pp: crisp color boost, Lab color, high sharpen pass on vivid light, resize and sharpen for web

02.23.08

Spring Has Sprung

Note: I know, this is really mean to those of you who experiences snow storms and icy sheets and blizzards and whatnot this weekend. Early spring is the price we pay for 3 months of NEVER ENDING BURNING in the middle of the summer.

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | 1/320 @ f/9.0 | ISO 100
pp: Lab color, resize and sharpen for web

02.22.08

One Ear Cocked At All Times

Note: I love how you can clearly see his spooky half-blue eye in this shot. And also that he has that look of anticipation on his face… that comes from the fact that the hand holding the lens is ALSO holding a yummy treat.

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | 1/500 @ f/5.0 | ISO 400
pp: crisp color boost, defog, resize and sharpen for web

02.21.08

Hugging In The Sunshine

Note: I know, I’ve been really slacking this past week+ when it comes to the every day thing. We’ve been busy being sick or sick of being busy. Your choice.

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | 1/60 @ f/5.0 | ISO 640
pp: defog, crisp color boost, resize and sharpen for web