Day 260

As we celebrate this Memorial Day, I like to pause and personally remember and thank those who have given their lives in service to our country so that my children would be able to enjoy the freedoms that they fought for. To be able to have childhood memories of playing in the backyard in your kiddie pool is not even the least significant of things not to give homage to those who fought for us. Today we remember the fallen.

Canon 30D w/70-200mm f/4L
1/3200sec
f/4
ISO 320

Day 259

Decided to mess around with some trendy effects going around in the photography world these days. I call it the "tilt-shift-expired-film-subtle-grain-vignette-overlay" effect.

Canon 30D w/sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/400sec
f/4
ISO 200

Day 258

Admit it. Deep down, you're wishing that you owned a pair of sandals like that.

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/1000sec
f/2
ISO 200

Day 257

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/100 sec
f/2.2
ISO 100

Day 256

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/800sec
f/1.4
ISO 100

Day 255

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/2500sec
f/1.8
ISO 100

Day 254

The average pile of passes to the computer lab on any given day.

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/1600 sec
f/1.4
ISO 800
(Yes, I wasn't paying much attention to exposure.)

Day 253

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/80sec
f/1.4
ISO 800

Day 252

This photo is probably the first shot I've put on this site that I didn't take at all. In fact, I wasn't even there when it was taken. My wife took it. She is a marvelous photographer in her own rite, and I figured that this image deserved her credit. My contributions would include the post-processing and editing that were done to polish it up.

Canon Rebel XS w/50mm 1.4 lens
1/200 sec
f/1.4
ISO 100

Day 251

Canon 30D w/30mm 1.4 Sigma
1/100sec
f/1.4
ISO 640

Day 250

Yesterday a few former students stopped by to visit and had a chance to pose for some photos for me. I had been researching some ideas earlier that day and I managed to pull together an idea. I like the way that this one worked out.

Canon 30D w/30mm 1.4 Sigma
1/250sec
f/5.6
ISO 200

Day 249

By now any of you following this blog should know that the days that I title these posts don't really correspond to actual days when I took the photos. I've already exceeded a year of time for starting this project. The days are a mere formality. However, I am dedicated to getting 365 photos up on the site in 365 posts. Some posts actually contain more than one photos, so if I were keeping track, I'm probably near the total of 365 "actual" photos. In any case, I am posting one of about 20 photos I took yesterday and today. This one didn't quite nail the focus where I wanted it, but I like it nonetheless.




Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/50sec
f/2
ISO 800

Day 248

Yesterday my family and I went out for a nice walk from one end of Lancaster City to the other. I decided to bring along my new 30mm lens to get a feel for the focal length and quality of it. I also decided to challenge myself to shoot in jpeg, which is a file format that doesn't allow a lot of leeway for exposure mistakes.  I haven't been on a photowalk in quite a while, and it was great to exercise the eyes a little and explore. Here are the best of a few photos I took along the way:

Day 247

Today I decided to play around with some off-camera lighting again, and use a neat iphone app that allows me to remotely fire my camera, giving me a great option for taking self-portraits. I used just one light on a stand with a homemade snoot for a few shots. The settings were ISO 160, f/8, 1/200 sec (manual exposure). The flash was a Nikon SB600 at 1/8 power.