My two Christmas Angels. Maybe Angels isn’t the best choice of words, but both of my girls are my sweethearts.
This was one of our Christmas photos we took, I’ve been wanting to do some B&W photography for this winter season (brrr… it’s cold!) and as one of my practice/experiments, I thought it turned out kinda nice. Taking another look I probably overdid the graininess but I promise you wont see it in all my b&w photos.
Fall is here. Sort of. In this part of the world (New Jersey, USA) it seems we have slipped from an extremely short, cool, and damp summer directly to a cold and wet winter. Low 40’s with a constant drizzle or rain going on all day. So I went out and took a few photographs. My daughter found this little abandoned building out by her job. Everything around us seemed so drab and dreary. I may have punched the colors up a little bit too much but it really brings the photo from a drab display to something a bit more exciting.
Comments and criticism are welcome!
Update: 19 Oct 09
Per my Dad’s comments I tried a Black and White conversion. It really was drab and boring until I punched the contrast up considerably. The photo has also gotten a bit of noise which I can’t seem to remove without lowering the contrast again. I may have to look at a tool like “Noise Ninja” if I’m going to be experimenting much more with this style of photography.
More comments are welcome!
My nephew had his 2nd birthday not too long ago and naturally I brought my camera along to snap a few shots. I swear these parties are more for the adults than they are for the kids. The keg of beer along with the jello shots really helps to reinforce that idea.
I’m in the habit of checking over my main settings when I power up my camera (ISO, Aperature priority mode, etc…) but I missed the fact that I had my flash setup for rear curtain sync from a previous project. I blame the beer 
Sadly this resulted in the loss of a lot of (indoor) photos and even the ones I did salvage weren’t particularly good. I now know why the pros hit “reset” before every shoot. I’m just glad this wasn’t a paying job or I would have been in serious trouble.
Here’s a couple shots from the day’s events.
I have no idea what time we finally made it home… but it was late!
by Mike
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