Feb 27, 2007 - POTD

Here is my 5 year anniversary ring my dh got for me. I had a safety cone at work that I put my ring on. I work in an area that I see a lot of safety cones daily.

Feb 17, 2007 - POTD

Here is my stepsons colorful shoes that his grandpa got him for Christmas. He really likes superman and his shoes prove it. I like how colorful they are.

Feb 14, 2007 - POTD

Finally took some pictures today. This is my 14 year old troll doll that my dh got me our first valentines day. He's so ugly he's cute. :) Long story short my friends and I laughed until we cried when we saw this troll doll.

Jan 10, 2007 - POTD

No botanicals again today. Sorry. I just can't get in the botanical mood with 6 inches of snow on the ground. I'm pretty happy with this shot. I know it's not all technically correct but I think it's pretty neat. Matt is no 22. He is going up for the shot. I did not use a flash on my camera but the newspaper guy that was sitting 1 row up and a few feet away I guess was using a flash and we must have clicked at the same time so I got this shadow of the players in my pic. I think it looks pretty cool. Ran image through noiseware and adjusted levels. ISO 1600, P mode on camera.

Feb 8, 2007 - POTD

Another picture from yesterday. Not very exciting but we sure had a good time playing in the snow :).

Feb 7, 2007 - POTD

No botanicals today because I'm just so glad I got a few shots of my stepson. He is 16 and does not want to take his picture very often. It snowed a lot last night so we walked to the bottom of the hill and I asked him to lean against my great grandmother's old house. He had his toboggan on and the old painted wood looked great with this look I think. I didn't get any cath lights in his eyes(not sure how to do this outside with lots of snow???Do I need a reflector of some kind? Anyways I cropped and ran some conversions on the pics. Which do you prefer?

Feb 6, 2007 - POTD try #2

Thanks everyone for the comments on the first shot. I've adjusted some settings and I'm trying again. Manual-(First Time ever!!!) ISO-400, f-stop - 7.1, Shutter Speed 1/15 sec What do you think? Is it any better? I had to take the compensation tab -2 to get rid of the highlights on the histogram too. I used the flash too. My house is just extremely dark and I used photoshop to try to get rid of the edges of the foam board.

Feb 6, 2007 - POTD

Here is a picture of my little primitive tree and one of my raggedy ann dolls. I somehow have a collection of rag dolls now. I just love them and anything primitive looking. This picture is blown out just like the last one but I like that the background looks seamless. In the pictures that didn't look blown out I could see the crease where my two foam board pieces came together. Is there a trick on getting it too look seamless without letting too much light on. I probably used a flash on this one. Here are my settings from photoshop: iso 1600, f-stop 4.0, shutter 1/60sec

Feb 5, 2007 - POTD

Couldn't make myself get out in the cold today to take pictures of dreary looking trees. So I decided to play with a toboggan I found for Natalie the other day for Valentines Day. I used white foam board backdrop. ISO: 1600, f-stop: 5.0, Shutter speed: 1/8sec, Used Aly_sBW action from action central and used lasso to color in letters of love. What do you think? In a very low light situation indoors what settings should I be using? I tried several other tries, well as many as she would let me and this is the one I liked the best but I know it could be much much better. Any suggestions and CC welcomed!!!!

Feb 4, 2007 - POTD

Here is Matt at Friday nights game. They won by two points. Very exciting! ISO 800, AV Mode, ran through noiseware.

Feb 3, 2007 - POTD

I snapped a picture of the die hard fans. They dress up everygame and come and stand up the whole game. Really adds the school spirit. I love the basketball hat the one guy always wears. ISO 800, f-stop 5.0, ran through noiseware, on AV mode.

Feb 2, 2007 - POTD

Snapped a picture of Matt's basketball coach during the game. ISO 800, f-stop 4.0, on AV mode, ran through noiseware afterwards.

Noiseware Try

I read on the message boards that if you kick you iso up to 1600 you should run noiseware in order to take away some of the fuzziness so of course I had to try it. I ran noiseware on this picture and did some other edits in photoshop. I can tell a big difference when I double click on this picture and then double click on the same pic a few posts back and make them bigger. Still not great but getting less pixelated. I love learning stuff like this. Thanks for all you all out there that share your techniques.

I've Been Tagged by Shannon(soontobemrsfergus)

Thanks Shannon...I didn't know how weird I was until this! :) LOL

6 Weird things about me

1.) I like to sit on the couch like Mork from Ork and watch T.V.
2.) I like to break out in song and dance when cooking. I use the spatula, spoon, etc for my microphone. This is how I entertain Natalie while I'm cooking.
3.) Don't talk to me while I'm watching T.V. I zone everything out when I'm really into a show or movie. I've been told I shake my head and agree with the characters and really get into ballgames by clapping and yelling for the teams(My mom told me if I wanted to go into labor just watch a ballgame-guess what I was doing when my water broke? Yep watching a ballgame on T.V.)
4.) I enjoy walking in the snow barefoot.
5.) Whenever I eat candy that has different color candies in the bag(like m&m's, skittles, sweetarts). I do not eat the same color twice. I eat them in sequence and at the end there must be one of each color left to eat. I always leave red or orange for last.
6.) I make up my own words to songs when I can't understand what their saying or can't remember how it goes. This really got on my sisters nerves when we were younger so I continued doing it over the years. LOL For instance right now there is a song that my stepson listens to that I've been told says Lamborghini Galato and I always say Mitsibushi Galato. hehe