Friday, March 31, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Defying the Odds

For a while, I had only been submitting pictures to DPChallenge, but it's interesting to see the variance in scores between different websites that I post shots to. Some shots that have done really well in a themed challenge at DPC have done terribly at other places when they have to stand on their own. Hopefully, the reverse is also true that some of the terrible scores I've been getting lately aren't necessarily a reflection on the shot, but people's idea of how it meets the challenge.
Back to today's shot... no, I'm not talented or even lucky enough to have captured this shot in motion. The board was resting on a chair and my window sill with black felt hung up behind it (with books behind the felt to keep the light from shining through). The dart was hung from the ceiling, and after it finally stopped swinging completely I stood over it and took the picture. It was completely handheld with a little point and shoot, so it took several shots. As for the lighting, I just happened to get lucky there with a tiny stream of sunlight peeking in over the black felt and hitting the textured stripes of the dart.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Water Outtake #2

I'm not quite happy with this shot... I feel it's a little too flat, but when I tried to boost any colors the reds (which already look orange) lost any details of the shadows, which I kind of like.
And to marc, who asked about my fingerprint shot. It's really simple to make a clean fingerprint. Scribble with a pencil on a sheet of paper, rub your finger in the lead, put a piece of scotch tape on your finger (as smoothly as possible), then take the tape off and put it on a sheet of white paper. Voila! It's a trick I learned as a kindergarten teacher... even the kids fingerprints come out clear enough for them to compare.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Water Outtake

*begin rant*
I woke up this morning to find that once again, the voters hate my image, probably becuase it's too out of the box and they don't get it immediately. Not only that, but the winner (and possibly also 3rd place winner) of the last challenge, "2 second exposure" didn't even bother to use a 2 second exposure. So sad. It's disappointing that people will submit anything that looks good to a challenge or looks like it might qualify, even if it doesn't really meet the criteria.
*end rant*
I'm just glad that I choose to follow the rules and I will continue to use the challenge topics and my PaD as a guide to try new things and continue learning about photography and post processing.
Oh, and for those of you wonder what exactly this is... I had a lot of fun with oil, water, and food coloring. I never realized there were so many ways to combine them.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Heat

What else should one do when waiting for dinner to cook besides take a picture of it. The pictures of the bubbles in the boiling water weren't as interesting, so here's the flame under the pan.
Someone asked what the stuff was in the back of the truck in my shot from 2 days ago. When I first saw it I thought it was a truck full of trash, but it seemed to be just loaves of bread, bags of bagels, and boxes of raisins and donuts.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Deja Vu

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Ford

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Oh's!

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Sign of Spring

Monday, March 20, 2006
Spikes

Sunday, March 19, 2006
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Dress Rehearsal

I think after last night, this is a good time to point out that I love my new camera. :)
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Storm and Sunrise

Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Boston Sunrise

Sunday, March 12, 2006
Flag

As for yesterday's belated birthday wishes... they weren't for me. They were for an online friend of mine who puts up with my constant updates of scores and rambling ideas of challenge ideas. The quote at the beginning was his comment after looking at my PaD the other day. I figured for all he puts up with, he at least deserved some virtual belated birthday Oreos! :)
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Friday, March 10, 2006
Acting - Take II

I promise I'll get the camera out for something other than play rehearsal shots soon!
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Jelly Belly

Since I didn't get any comments on yesterdays PaD, I'll wait to divulge what it was.
However, in happier news, the folks that had the Happy Holidays sign up (as noted here) have finally taken it down! Whee! The folks down the street at the costume shop still have 1/3 of their "Santa Costumes" sign up (which now just says "San") right next to their Valent... er... Mardi Gr... erm... St. Patrick's Day signs. You'd think at SOME point they'd have managed to remove the Santa sign completely since they were working at that window!
Monday, March 06, 2006
Colors

Sunday, March 05, 2006
Saturday, March 04, 2006
DSC_0001

Friday, March 03, 2006
Flags

Anyway.. after a long day, and a lot of driving, it's nice to be back home. Even nicer was finding I had at least one shot I could just post without fixing. :)
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Ice

I'm heading off to a conference in Boston, so my PaD for tomorrow will be really late (or even posted on Saturday), but I promise it will be there!
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Fashion Outtake
