Deborah: January 2012

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

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Photo-a-day Week 8

I'm pretty sure I've skipped a week, or one week has stretched into two, or something like that. I've also realised I'm overthinking things ('how unusual', anyone who knows me will say with a roll of their eyes), and that's why I'm getting behind. I'm trying to think of ideas and plan my shots to get something i think will be better instead of just seeing what I can get at the time. Not only does this take more time, it hasn't really paid off anyway. It's the quick spontaneous, 'found' shots that i end up liking the most. So, back to keeping it simple and trying to keep up!
See you next week.

Deb

PS. I love hearing which one's you like the best.