01.15.08

Self-Portrait Tuesday: A Girl and Her Dog

Note: Yeah, I took this on Sunday night…. But c’mon! You know you don’t mind looking at THAT pretty sunset again, now do you?
Note2: Peter was VERY perplexed about what exactly we were doing out there in the middle of nowhere. He was EVEN more upset when he stepped on the tiniest piece of Cholla on the ground. Whoops. Poor pooch! He watched where he was going after that.
Note3: Have I mentioned how much I love this state?
Note4: Haha! Lens is STILL dirty. Go figure. Didn’t clean itself in the 45 seconds between shots…. Actually, it’s not clean now either even though it’s two days later.

16-35mm lens @ 16mm | 1/40 @ f/16 | ISO 250
pp: HA! STILL NONE! oh. well. mostly. See, Peter? He wasn’t really looking at me in the original picture, he was looking at the camera. But the NEXT picture he was looking at me because I was doing something really silly. So I sort of stole Peter from that picture and put him in this picture. But other than that? NO EDITING. I love that! (resized and sharpened for web doesn’t count)

01.13.08

Just Your Standard Desert Sunset Picture

Note: I Rawwwwther impressed with myself for this one.
Note2: The desert really is beautiful. I love it here.
Note3: Whoops. Dirty Lens. Haha.

16-35mm lens @ 16mm | 1/160 @ f/16 | ISO 1000
pp: NOTHING! Now you know why I’m impressed with myself. oh. except I resized and sharpened for use on the web, but really…. that’s NOTHING. *sigh* Photographer Nirvana

01.10.08

Birds at the Diary Farm

Note: Stinky diary farm. haha
Note2: Working on taking pictures of something besides people. It’s a struggle for me because, well, I LIKE PEOPLE.
Note3: I guess that means I’m in the right specialty when it comes to my job! haha!

28-200mm lens @ 200mm | 1/400 @ f/5.6 | ISO 100
PP: LAB color - crisp color boost - resized and sharpened for web

01.09.08

Early Morning

Note: I loved the way the light was hitting the moisture of the burning off frost. Wish it didn’t come with the dirty air of the desert!

28-200mm lens @ 165mm | 1/2000 @ f/20 | ISO 200

01.07.08

Rainy Days and Mondays

Note: I love the rain.
Note2: I do NOT love raking all of the leaves that came DOWN in the rain.
Note3: View out my front window

85mm lens | 1/500 @ f/1.8 | ISO 400
PP: LAB color on leaves and tree only - defog - deep saturation on leaves and tree only - sponge to desaturate even more - resize and sharpen for web

01.01.08

Welcome to RWS: Picture a day 2008! Can you believe it? I can’t. But here we go. Off for another ride!

Crisp Winter Skies

Note: I know I live in Arizona and it’s not REALLY that cold here, but the sky still looks different. It has that cold feeling to it. Empty. Vast. Desolate.

Note2: I’m going to try to start giving ya’ll more info than just the lens used. But I know myself. And I’m lazy. So chances are good I won’t do it with every picture. Just warning you!

85mm lens | 1/1600 @ f/22 | ISO 250
Post Processing (to be abbreviated “PP” from now on): LAB color/Crisp Color Boost/Sharpened and resized for web