Thursday, January 26, 2012

Photo-a-day Week 9

I'm not sure how many weeks I'm going to keep this up. I've completed the 8 weeks I set for my students. Plus this is a week of bonus words that was on the list. Next week I start a new 8 week challenge, ie. same idea, new list, but i'll keep adding to my weeks until it gets too much or I stop having fun. The next page of words looks a lot more challenging. I guess because i make the lists I could change them, but where's the fun in that.
Other than this project, I'm working on another one that I'm taking a bit more seriously. It has its own dedicated blog here.



I've decided to add the camera settings to the captions for the hell of it. All the photos in the Photo-a-day project are taken with the 50mm 1.8 lens and all settings on manual (except for the odd occasion when I cheat).


blur | pencil | orange | abstract | flare | water | soft 


blur (camera around my neck, self-timer on, click shutter and ride bike)
ISO 200  f/22 @ 1/25
pencil (I dropped the pencil as I was walking back from the kitchen
with my cup of tea. I saw the light shining on the floor from the window
and thought, 'that'll do'
ISO 400 f5.6@ 1/640sec
orange (i ate the orange, put a piece of yellow card
on my desk in front of the window, held the peel
up with one hand and tried to get the distance right
for focus. I may have cheated and used auto focus)
ISO 200 f2.5 @ 1/250sec
abstract (this isn't really what I'd call abstract
but it'll do. i need to get on to next weeks photos)
ISO 400 f4 @ 1/50sec
water (of all the thousand things you could do
with water, this was all I came up with.
In the park across the road from my house.)
ISO 200 f2.8 @1/500sec
flare
ISO 200 f2.8 @ 1/1250sec
soft (i thought of my daughters cat, a feather and a few other random ideas,
but when i really thought about soft I thought of my pillow)
ISO 200 f2.8 @ 1/1250

And that's it for another week.
Next weeks challenge:
leaves | texture | costumes | morning | eyes | yes | food