Another day, another attempt at capturing the cats at play, another day they refuse to cooperate. Jerks. So I took the camera to them. Ivan is not perfectly in focus here. I have great difficulty estimating distances, and would normally have just used f/8 or f/16 and not bothered, but I wanted to blur the …
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365.243 random still from an early Brothers Quay film
This is definitely a case of going backwards. I’m not even really sure how I captured this. This was the first of a series of shots I made of a clothes pin after the cats refused to cooperate with my carefully arranged flash and camera set up, carefully placed to unobtrusively capture them attempting to …
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365.242 there’s so much happening here
Note: the title should be read to the beat of that Buffalo Springfield song… I’m at a point now where I can choose a subject, make a picture or 5, experiment with the various sliders in Aperture to achieve something pretty and/or artistic and/or suggestive and or ______, and be done with the 365 for the …
Dallas Skyline Meetup
The North Texas Photography Explorers MeetUp Group met up last night in the Trinity River bottoms between Oak Cliff and Downtown. This used to be a fairly sketchy area, but I felt completely safe, and the only people I saw were in cars, on bicycles, or other MeetUpers, though there is evidence of some late-night …
365.241 Dallas Skyline
now with 20% more sunstars! Well, the North Texas Photography Explorers MeetUp Group met up to shoot the Dallas Skyline from the Trinity River bottoms/levee tonight. I met a couple of friendly people, shot with one most of the night, waved hello and/or goodbye at some others, and generally enjoyed myself. I’m going to make …
365.240 Concept Proved… Now What?
So I proved the concept yesterday, and was all excited about playing with it today: thought about it off and on since last night. But when it came time to shoot… blank. So here I am doing a U-Turn. Woo. Exciting. Yawn. I’m going to go put a pen and pad next to the bed, …
365.239 proof of concept
Feeling better today. Didn’t make the time, or put in the thought, to get the picture I wanted, since the only idea I had didn’t work very well, but I did manage to learn some things about the general method I used, so a proof of concept is great. One thing… Why is only the …
