06-JAN-2008
6 Jan
There was this fence I was looking at while waiting for my oldest to get out of Sunday School (or whatever they call it now). There was a better shot, but the angle was wrong, and there were some shrub branches in the foreground that interfered with the scene (I knew this while I was there, but wanted that effect).
Again, everything in Lightroom.
05-JAN-2008
5 Jan
Took the two youngest to Powder House Hill in South Berwick. Our own little ski/snowboard/sledding hill here in town. Took over 200 photos, these two wipe outs were some of my favorites. Sledding and wipe outs are a great past time out/up/over here.
Used the 70-200 on these (actually for all our shots).
Oh, found another benefit to the 40D, I was able to take most of the photos with my gloves on!!
Did the organization and some tweaking in Lightroom, but had to drop to Elements (4.0) for the montage. I don't think this is possible in Lightroom alone (I could be wrong though).
04-JAN-2008
4 Jan
OK, a bit of a different effect for this year ;)
Again, nothing but Lightroom, playing with the Sliders to the Right trick with a few presets and a crop.
In the spirit of SP Friday, I had a winter shadow shot, but saw this tractor (and one beside it) after I shot my shadow. I took a few shots of the tractors as a backup. It was a good thing because the sun was behind some high clouds for the shadow shot, there wasn't enough contrast for it to work (even with slight mucking around in Lightroom).
03-JAN-2008
3 Jan
This felt much better when I was taking it. I don't think it's all that bad.
Here is an example of wishing I'd remembered to pack my 580EX2, it could have used a bit of fill.
I actually rotated it to add a little something to it during PP (in Lightroom).
Another Lightroom only photo. . .
Oh yeah, it was about 8 degrees (Farenheit) when I took this, rather cold out there.
Yeap, another shot with the 28mm off the end of my camera.
02-JAN-2008
2 Jan
OK, this one came out better today.
It seems to work out better when I actually make some time during the day (read: sunlight) to take a shot or two.
I am working with a demo copy of
Lightroom primarily to help organize the 5000 or so images that I am converting from 35mm negatives. What I am liking about Lightroom is that I can import some completely different photos (read: pbase PaD stuff) and NOT ruin the organization effort of my conversion process.
So back to this image. It is a tree branch with a nice snowy background. I believe I took it at +1 maybe +1 1/3 stop (Yeah, I could just look at the Exif) and then used a Lightroom preset (Age photo) which I really like.
Oh yeah, the EF 28mm f/1.8 hasn't come off my 40D in the past week+. Something about the 40D is making this lens a joy.
01-JAN-2008
1 Jan
My first entry for the new year. . .
One of those "It really sounded like a good idea at the time" kind of shots.
Snow, off camera flash, below camera, aiming slightly up 1/128 power.