December 25 - 320/365
1/1/11
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| 28-135mm lens @ 44mm, f/4.5, 1/60, ISO 400, self-timer |
Merry Christmas from my family to yours.
Showing posts with label self-portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-portrait. Show all posts
June 26 - 177/365
7/19/10
Canon PowerShot SD600
My husband and I finally celebrated our wedding anniversary today by doing some bike riding and tubing in the historic town of Harpers Ferry, WV. Since it was not practical to bring along the big dSLR camera, I brought my smaller point and shoot along instead to capture a few images from our celebratory outing. This image was taken on a school bus while we were waiting to be driven to the area where we were going to put our tubes in the water. It was a fun day and the tubing was so relaxing! A fun way to celebrate together.
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June 14 - 165/365
7/1/10
Another self portrait of what I have been spending most of my free time doing lately - photo editing. I've been slowly working my way through all of the 2,000 vacation photos I took. Plus the noise cancelling headphones to tune out the blaring sound of my husband playing guitar. :-)
June 8 - 159/365
6/22/10
50mm lens, f/3.2, 1/8, ISO 400
I don't remember where I got the idea for this photo, but I had seen another photo that had a vintage-like feel to a pair of jeans, and somehow I came up with this idea. It took a lot of tweaking with the tripod to get it right, and then I still had to crop the image to get it the way I wanted, but it is pretty close to what I had envisioned.
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April 27 - 117/365
5/2/10
50mm lens, f/2.0, 1/30, ISO 200
Wow.... I am almost a week behind on my posting! It has been a super busy week, and I am trying to get caught up on my photos before my husband and I go on vacation since I know I won't be able to post there. This was a bit of a last minute picture after a busy day of cake baking, but I liked my reflection in the sunglasses.
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April 26 - 116/365
4/28/10
I spent a bit of my afternoon working on a project for my photography club. We were given an assignment for this month to come up with an image that represents a "universal theme" and contains elements of good photographic composition. Can you guess which theme(s) I tried to represent? The main theme of this photograph was supposed to be "temptation". Being a chocoholic, I am constantly tempted by sweets, but knowing I should choose a healthier option. I staged the photo and used a tripod to capture myself being caught up in temptation.
April 22 - 112/365
4/23/10
28 - 135mm lens @ 80mm, f/5, 1/250, ISO 200
I got one final run in today before I run my first 5K on Saturday. While I went for a short run today, I ran almost the full distance on Tuesday, so I feel pretty confident for the big run on Saturday. After I finished my run, I grabbed my camera and perched it on a box outside and chose my settings with a timer before jogging ahead. So yes... that is me. :-) Guess I will have to rely on someone else to capture a photo of me during my run on Saturday!
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April 7 - 97/365
4/7/10
18-55mm lens @ 35mm, f/4.5, 1/2, ISO 800
Remember iffles's theme for March? Monochrome? Well while this photo does happen to work with last month's monochrome theme, it also works for April's theme - Portraits. I don't believe I will be able to do too many portraits for the month since many days I don't have anyone to photography except my husband, who's not exactly keen on having me take tons of photos of him. But today I decided to tackle a photo I've wanted to do for a while - a self portrait of me with my camera. It's not perfect, but I'm happy with the overall effect and you get a peek of what I look like behind the camera. :-)
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March 16 - 75/365
3/16/10
I went out for a little walk around my neighborhood after work today. It finally felt like spring! With the sun shining, I thought it might be fun to play around with the idea of taking a "self-portrait" using my shadow. The photo ended up working particularly well for this month's monochrome theme.
February 9 - 40/365
2/9/10
28-55mm lens @ 34mm, f/4.6, 1/30, ISO 200
Today's photo represents a few different things. First, I have to boast that I went Manual again today. [yea!] I'm definitely feeling more comfortable with specifically choosing my camera settings and hope I can keep improving in that area. For this image, I specifically opened my aperture as far as it would go in Aperture priority mode and also chose a very low ISO. While the general rule of thumb is to use higher ISO settings for low light situations, such as an indoor picture like this one, I had lots of good extra light around me here and wanted to keep myself "darker" and hopefully enrich the colors from the maps. I definitely achieved the look I was going for.
This image also represents my first attempt at a "self-portrait." I have been wanting to experiment with taking some photos of myself, but this is obviously harder than it seems! You should have seen the setup I had going on for this photo. I had my camera on a tripod [obviously] and since the tripod wouldn't reach tall enough for the angle I wanted, I had to put it up on my kitchen counter. So every time I wanted to take the picture, I had to climb up on my counter, press the shutter release button, climb back down and get in the chair within the 10sec timer. Then repeat the process to check the image result and repeat if necessary. Phew! But it was worth it.
Lastly, this image reflects one of the activities I have been busy with while snowed in at home the past few days. I have been actively planning our upcoming trip to Germany and Austria in the spring. I've been reading through guide books and planning an itinerary on paper and have slowly started figuring out a game plan. I'm starting to really look forward to the trip, even if it is still a few months away.
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