11-29-2011
Well I haven't done a new post in quite sometime (nearly 2 months), I'm WAY overdue to show off some new photos.
This is a GREAT one I took of Adrian recently. We had been at a yard sale & I got this one "hillbilly-looking" hat, meanwhile my wife had dressed Adrian in some overalls. Now, I've often-times hated overalls on our kids, because of the difficulty in getting them off when needing to change diapers. But as our son now is potty-trained, it's not an issue, so overalls can be cute for me as well.
Anyway, my wife had put these overalls on him, and I put that hat on him, and it was SO cute, and so naturally I took some photos. I managed to come up with this absolute WINNER of a shot. (Used the "beater" Nikon D5000, 50mm 1.8 G, RAW, 1/400 second f/2.5, processed with the {Oh So Posh} presets in LR3, I forget which one):
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Now you tell ME that isn't just the cutest, most adorable thing you've ever seen? That absolutely belongs on our wall as an 11x14 or maybe even a 16x20.
New Landscapes
For a short while, I experimented with a "micro 4/3rds" camera, a new-emerging type of camera which gives you quality images in a small package. The idea was its smaller size would mean I would ALWAYS have something with me, but not something like a camera phone, and thus get more images--especially of landscapes, or of children as well. In the end, I sold it because of struggles I had in using it for children shots--a shame, as it did well for me in landscape shots. It is the PERFECT sort of thing to have for always having something with you that nonetheless does well on top of not being as bulky as the SLRs we always use. I don't doubt I will try one of these again when I'm more ready for it--for now, I still have to lug the d-SLRs everywhere.
Here are some shots I got with it:
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I was able to get SOME of the shots I took of children to come out well. Here are some which did, featuring our niece Madison:
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More Recent
Our nephew Dylan (age 5½), is very photogenic as well. All 3 of them, actually, stayed overnight with us Fri-Sat (Nov 25-26 2011) and did well sleeping in their own room the ENTIRE night (an absolute CARDINAL rule around here--kids sleep in their OWN room, PERIOD). The next day, we went exploring in the woods & got all muddy (and we also broke glass in "The Pit," ha ha). Once we returned them, Dylan climbed onto this pile of brush in gran-gran's backyard and posed for photos, I got this nice one:
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Here is a cute one of Adrian taken Sunday before church:
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Helen is less cooperative with photos, enough that she has even been disciplined for it, but I did get this one of her wearing a new nice outfit my mother bought for her:
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We were at WalMart's and my wife had them sit in Santa's lap. They took a free 5x7 photo which we still haven't claimed. I took one myself with my own camera:
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And then these last 2 while we had the spot to ourselves during a lull in the activities:
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