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Thursday, May 1, 2014

I wanted a place to post this cute haircut on this cute gal who's in my DYT T1 fb group. She gave me permission to Pin it. Cute, eh?

Friday, February 11, 2011

Fermented Foods

I am coming to realize the wisdom of past traditions, especially as it pertains to food and the preparation thereof. Traditional means of preserving food employed fermentation instead of freezing and canning. Fermenting food not only preserves it but increases the value by instituting a whole ecosystem of beneficial bacterial. These good guys keep the bad guys at bay thus preserving the food without the freezing and cooking, they also help populate our gut with beneficial "bugs." Think of the benefits of yogurt with live probiotics and apply it to all sorts of other foods: cucumbers, chutneys, cabbage, grains etc. etc.

I'm hoping to win this class!

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Week Four Assignments - Natural Lighting

Using a Natural Reflector

f/5.6

1/640

130mm

iso 200

I may not be using a reflector correctly because I am not shooting the side of the leaves being lit by reflected light. Well...I'll have to look for other opportunities this week.

Back-lit Silhouette

f/22

1/1600

50mm

iso 200

Front-lit

f/2.8

1/400

34mm

iso 400

Meg is standing in the shade, facing a parking lot that is much brighter. The composition isn't the best, but it was the best for that location and since we were rushing off to an event, we didn't have time to look for a better location.

Back-lit

f/5.0

1/320

50mm

iso 800

I exposed for Norah's face. The background is obviously overexposed but her darling face is perfect!

Side-lit

f/2.8

1/200

50mm

iso 200

I really anticipated this assignment. One of my top goals with photography is to master natural lighting. However, I found myself rather frustrated this week. I did not have as much time to practice as I ideally wanted and when I did have the time, I had neither human subject or ideal lighting (v e r y overcast). The light was so beautiful Friday afternoon and I had found a number of great locations in a town I was visiting with Meg and 5 of her friends. But alas! They were occupied past dusk. I had mental images of 6 girls in formals at the old train station. What terrific images I would capture! So....here's the best I came up with.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Week Three Assignments

1/250

f/9.0

iso 400

I think the subjects interrupt the pattern of the stones, thus focusing our attention on them. I also tried to place them in the intersections of the rule of thirds.

1/4000

f/4.0

iso 200

The simplicity of the background keeps the subject our focus. I took two shots previous to this one and thought "blah" then I tilted my camera about 45 degrees. I think the result is much more pleasing to look at.