Got behind in posting my Project 52 images again. Sorry about that. These are from last week and this week. The theme for Week 29 was "Shape". I thought the swirly shape that was made by the watergun was pretty cool. For those interested in camera settings, I shot this handheld using my Canon 70-200L at 200mm, ISO 400, 1/125 at F4.
This week's theme is "Friends". On Sunday, we went bowling with some of the boys' friends. It was great fun! Unfortunately, I had forgotten to grab a CF card and was stuck using my husband's phone to snag a few photos. I'm less than thrilled with the functionality of a phone camera, and the quality sucks even more. But it is what it is. So I have no idea on settings for this other than it was shot at medium size and the flash fired. LOL
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Last week's theme was "Light". Since the 4th of July holiday was this week, I knew that I'd be taking photos of the fireworks on Saturday so that's why I'm late in posting. Every year, my sister and BIL put on quite a show and this year's was pretty awesome. The kids used the ultra long sparklers while we waited for dusk to arrive. And then the show began. I had a heck of a time getting shots of the fireworks...my camera does not like to focus in the dark so I set it on "infinity" and hoped for the best. I had to experiment quite a bit with the exposure and finally got a few decent looking shots right near the end of the show.
For those interested in camera settings, I shot this handheld using my Canon 24-70L at 25mm, ISO 400, 1/20 at F2.8.
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This week's theme is "Multiplicity". As you may know, we have 4 acres and with it comes a variety of wild life. Last night, while making supper, I noticed this bunny rabbit sitting near the veggie garden. I was able to snag one still shot of him before he realized I was there and took off toward the swamp. This is a series of 4 images composited together.
For those interested in camera settings, I shot this handheld using my Canon 70-200L at 200mm, ISO 320, 1/800 at F2.8.
And here's the cutie before he started to run.
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This week's theme is "Food". After weeding the vegetable garden this morning, I found that it was time to start picking the first of our summer crop - scallions and leaf lettuce. In a another week, the cherry tomatoes should be ready, too, which will make for a great salad topper. :)
For those interested in camera settings, I shot this on my kitchen counter after giving the food a quick bath. I used my Canon 24-70L handheld at 58mm, ISO 640, 1/125th at F2.8.
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Last Week's theme was "Black & White". The school had their annual spring band concert which our oldest son participated in. This was his first year playing trumpet.
I've never photographed anything on a stage before and to say the lighting was challenging would be an understatement. The stage lights were all from above and cast a hideous orange color, there was no directed spotlights from behind the audience, and the sheet music and shiny instruments made for some seriously blown out highlights. I did the best I could given the situation (and that we were not allowed to use a flash), but wasn't really thrilled with the way the images looked. So what better reason to change these to Black & White right? :)
This particular image is a tiny portion of a much larger image including more of the band members. But for privacy reasons, I decided to crop it down to show my son just in case the other parents wouldn't want their kids' photo posted online. :) For those interested in camera settings, I shot this with my Canon 70-200L handheld at 200mm, ISO 3200, 1/100th at F3.2.
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This week's theme is "Home" and rather than take a boring shot of my own home, I decided to capture our baby birds' home - their nest. These are baby house sparrows which are nesting in our burberry bush out back. A few weeks ago, there were 6 tiny eggs. Five of the eggs hatched. These appear to be the only 3 left as I have not seen the other 2 hatchlings in over a week. I suppose they could be tucked under these three, but probably not likely. Anyway, they are so darn cute and have no problem with me pushing the foliage aside in order to take their photo. Their momma, though, is a total spaz (see last week's Project 52 theme "Hidden"). She jumps around from bush to bush, then to the grass, then to the tree, squawking at me the whole time. Ha ha ha - she's gonna tire herself out trying to protect those babies. ;) For those interested in camera settings, I shot this with my Canon 24-70L handheld at 70mm, natural light, ISO 1000, 1/60th at F4.5.
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Forgot to post my Project 52 last week so I've got two themes for you today. Last week's theme was "up close". This is the turtle that has been visiting our yard daily for almost 2 weeks now. Hubby keeps turning him around and sending him back to the swamp, but he comes right back the next day. A good size hole has been dug in the side of the hill where this little guy keeps going...hubby though maybe we'd find turtle eggs there some day soon. As of today, no eggs. But that's okay cuz I really don't want the turtle to lay eggs in the side of the hill as it's too easy a spot for our dog to get at. Those eggs wouldn't stand a chance if they were laid there. LOL For those interested in camera settings, I was lying on the ground very close to the turtle and shot this with my Canon 24-70L handheld at 70mm, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/100 at F 5.0.
Now this week's theme is "hidden". While I was checking in on the baby birds nesting in our burberry bush, their momma came around and kept a watchful eye on things. She was very brave at first, but then flew up into the birch tree out of my reach. I only had my 24-70mm lens on, so she is actually a teeny tiny blip on the full size image, so I've cropped it a tad closer so that you can see her better. :) For those interested in settings, this was shot from underneath the tree, using my 24-70L, handheld at ISO 640, shutter speed 1/640 at F2.8. I was previously taking pics of the babies and probably should've lowered the ISO when I swung around to snag this shot of their momma.
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Last week's theme was "water". My family ventured north for a day at the cottage with my parents. We couldn't have asked for nicer weather....mid 70's and a light breeze. :) The boys were quite eager to go swimming when we arrived. I warned them that the water would be cold. They said, "It's okay, Mom." Then they put their feet in and realized just how cold it really was. You see, the lake is spring fed which means the water never really warms up much except along the shoreline where it's shallow.
In the image below, our youngest (7 years old) had just learned how to snorkel and was watching the small perch and sunfish swimming around. He was mesmerized. :)
For those interested in camera settings, I shot this Motorola Xoom tablet. Trying to interpret the camera settings in the Exif data is interesting. The only thing I know for sure is that it is ISO 100. The aperture value is listed as 14/5 and the shutter speed is listed as 3/5000. So my interpretation of that is F2.8 at 1/166th of a second (but I could be wrong). No editing done here other than to resize and sharpen for web. But, I also posted this photo through Instagram and used a tilt-shift effect which was pretty cool. You can see that on my Facebook page.
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Last week's theme was "Old". My family went with our scout pack to the Buffalo and Erie County Naval Park yesterday and most everything there is what I would considered old. We had the chance to tour two ships and a submarine that were used in WWII, and even spent the night sleeping on the larger ship shown here. This is the USS Little Rock.
For those interested in camera settings, I shot this with my Fuji Finepix P&S zoomed out to 14mm at ISO 100, 1/350th at F6.4, no flash, handheld.
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