I had the pleasure of photographing sweet little Mila today.   It went really well, she was very cooperative and even had some poses of her own!

Yellow Lemons

Working on my last photo assignment for my Mike's Camera class.   Each student was assigned a color, I got yellow.   Though this is not the project I am submitting I needed to play around with some different possibilities.

No Rain!

Today was picture day, Alisha wanted Avery in her rainsuit and of course we had a bright and sunny day!   We tried to get the rain effect with the sprinkler but Avery was having none of it!   We'll have to try another time in her Easter dress, she was having none of that either!   She's so darn cute you just can't be upset about it!

Jupiter and Venus

Last night I played with my cross filter and took some images of Venus and Jupiter.   Great evening to be outside playing, unfortunately I went out this morning to play some more and my camera has a malfunction, no longer able to use the manual settings :(.   Just in time for our field trip to Boulder this afternoon, figures!

Locked my mirror last night and forgot to disable it this morning so the shutter wouldn't work without the cable release.   Love when I learn something new!!!   Camera's working just fine.   Yeah!!!

Messin' with Macro

Yesterday I spent an hour + messin' with macro and a beautiful bunch of roses that I rescued from the clearance cart at King Soopers.  
The photos above were all taken in a combination natural and incandescent lighting.   I started out with my 10X macro filter at ISO 400, 1/60, F4.0 (photos 1-4).   The 10X does not do anything for clarity and is not a filter I would choose for insects but I feel it lends itself well to the softness of the rose petals which I liked. 
I then changed to my 4X filter, starting with ISO 400, 1/10, F4.0 (photo 5), ISO 800, 1/10, F4.0 (photo 6).   Finishing up at ISO 1600, 1/10, F5.0 (photos 7-9).    At ISO 1600 the colors of the roses changed, becoming more orange with really cool highlights.   I never achieved the clarity in the photos that I would have liked, nor did I get my tripod out, so I've added an LED light and Macro tubes to my wish list (hint, hint).
Very minor lightness changes  and some cropping were done in Photoshop.  
I hope everyone has a lovely day.

Backyard Birds

The Northern Flickers are back this morning and I was able to capture a few images this morning.   Usually the birds are so busy that they don't stay put long enough for me to get a hold of my camera let alone snap a shot.  
The one draw back to having them here is the rat-a-tat-tat on the house, time to tap on or open a window to send them on their way.