Well, if you’ve been checking this blog every day for the last thirty days, you’ll notice that the posts stopped coming five days short of the end of the thirty photo challenge. I actually had a photo uploaded to Flickr for Day Twenty-Six as well, but I didn’t end up getting the time to write a blog post about it:
I took it while we were waiting for the ferry to head to Vancouver Island for early Christmas with Jenn’s family. Jenn had to sit in the back because we were transporting an elliptical trainer for Jenn’s parents and had to push the passenger-side seat forward to fit it in. After we got there however, the combination of slow internet and Christmas busyness pushed the photo challenge off my radar. Since we got back, we’ve had some busy nights and packed days I just haven’t found the time or inspiration to take the photos. So enough excuses, here we are on Day Thirty, and I’ve got nothing again. Sorry to let you down.
I want to thank Matt Hawkins for the challenge he issued that I managed to get to eighty-five percent completion. To be honest, that’s better than I expected to do, and while it would’ve been nice to make the last five days, I still don’t view this as a failure. I pushed myself to be creative on a more regular basis, and it was good. It’s got me thinking about other ideas to keep me updating my blog. Especially now that I might have a larger audience? We’ll have to see how things go in the busy month of December though.
Okay, so I missed Day Twenty-Four. To make up for it, you’re getting two photos today. I thought I’d take one as close to Day Twenty-Four as possible, so I snapped a shot of the fresh snow with my GoPro HD HERO as I left for work this morning:
Then, when I left work tonight at 8:45, I snapped another photo with my GoPro:
Both were later cropped down to a 16:9 widescreen aspect and had a slight sepia toning added to them for effect. And then posted here, technically twenty minutes late. Whoops.
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Okay, so I always run out of time on Tuesdays since it’s bible study night. Tonight I thought I’d save time by using yet another camera in my arsenal and go with the iSight camera on my MacBook Pro. So I fired up Photo Booth and was prepared to take a quick ‘n’ lazy photo of me sitting in bed. Then I got kinda creative.
I thought I’d try the effects settings and I loved the way the glow looked with the low light. Really dramatic. The problem was, if I took “photos” with Photo Booth, it kept flashing the screen and I’d loose the dramatic light. So I came up with a nifty solution to disable the flash… take a screenshot of the Photo Booth preview. So that’s my photo for tonight. A screen capture of Photo Booth in action. I liked the way the light from my iPhone added to the photo, so I took a self portrait of a typical look for me before bed each night: playing on my iPhone.
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Not much explanation tonight. Just liked the background of the Christmas tree lights behind this candle and took a few shots with my D100. Made some adjustments to one of them and uploaded it for the Day Twenty-Two photo:
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Had dinner with a number of old friends tonight, and saw a breathtaking sunset outside, so I rushed out with a friend of mine and grabbed my D100 from the trunk of the car. Unfortunately, we were in the middle of a neighbourhood and couldn’t get an unrestricted shot of the sunset, without walking to the park, and it was insanely cold out, so we nixed the park option. So my strategy to get a bit of the foreground, but as minimal foreground as possible, was to take the shot on a forty-five degree angle and only include the foreground in the corner:
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Inspired by Erin’s black and white shots, I decided I wanted to make today’s photo black and white. So I grabbed the closest camera, which happened to be HFL’s Canon T2i (since I brought it home from the auction last night) and switched it over to the monochromatic color mode. Since I love grainy black and white photos, I cranked the ISO all the way up to 6400. Opening the aperture up to f/1.4 for that shallow depth of field left me with a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second.
I snapped photos of various objects around the kitchen, and none of them appealed to me until I caught the espresso machine. I tried a few more angles and then brought the images into Aperture. Ironically, Aperture converted all of the images back to color because it was working with the RAW images, but that was a quick filter to get it back to black and white. Then I adjusted the highlights and shadows a bit, added some sharpening and definition to further enhance the graininess, and voila! My photo for day twenty:
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Quick photo an hour and a half late. Just got back from the annual fundraiser auction for Hungry For Life. Had a great night with auctioneer Gery Schubert playing Don Cherry. The auction was hockey-themed. Here’s one of the several snaps I got of the night with the Canon T2i from work and that nice, bright 50mm f/1.4 lens. My good friend Justin Keitch posing with Don, er… Gery:
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So close. I almost forgot to post a photo tonight. Got all the way to changing into my P.J.s before I remembered. So I snapped this pic with my iPhone, of an ornament in our bedroom. Used the Hipstamatic app again, this time with the Lucifer IV lens and Ina’s 1969 film. And I’m quickly blogging it with my iPhone and the Wordpress app.
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Well, today is the first weekday since the time change that I’ve actually been able to witness the sunset. Been working those late nights and decided to head home a bit early tonight. Jenn was driving, so I was able to snap a few shots of the beautiful sunset with my iPhone. Used the ol’ Hipstamatic app again, and I grabbed this shot with the Kaimal Mark II lens, and a special filter called “the dirt on my car window” to give the sun that extra large speckled flare!
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Another day working late at the office. That’s what tends to happen on Auction week at Hungry For Life. I’m working on a video that requires a lot of render time in-between edits, so I thought I’d set up a really cool self-portrait for tonight with my ample wait time. I set up the Canon T2i here at work on a tripod and put it on manual mode. I wanted to try and get an image that looks double-exposure-esque, but done with one long exposure, so it would look like I was working on two computers at the same time. To get a long enough exposure for it to look good, I turned out all of the lights so that the only light in the room was coming from the two computer screens, then I stopped the aperture down to f/11 and set the shutter speed to ten seconds. I then looked at each monitor for five seconds during the ten second exposure, and this is the end result:
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