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Feb 2012

Understanding Aperture & Depth of Field

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In case you missed the first two installments of the Move to Manual Series, so far we've talked about composition and perspective in your photographs and how to find great light. Make sure you check these two posts out! My desire to learn photography and own an SLR camera came from the desire to achieve beautiful photos. Those crisp, sharp images where part of a photo was in focus and the rest was blurry? Those images mesmerized me. I spent hours scouring the internet looking for tutorials on … [Read more...]

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Feb 2012

Small Blessings

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This has been a somewhat rotten week. Little Man and I have both been sick. First him with a crazy-high temperature and stuffy nose, and now me with a fever and some crazy, nasty sinus issues going on. Thankfully, the husband hasn't gotten sick yet because nothing is worse than a "man cold" we need someone to take care of us. We had a wonderful Valentines Day, despite the sickness that hung over our heads. The husband ordered me some beautiful flowers and we spent our evening with our … [Read more...]

09
Feb 2012

52 Faces: Week 6

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My head isn't all here this week, folks. I promise I didn't just ditch out on you. I haven't made it around the link to visit last weeks 52 Faces participants, but I plan on doing that today. Bare with me. Like I mentioned on Monday, I've been just walking around in a fog. The rain has set in for who knows how long (the forecast is showing rain until next week) and life just...has ways of knocking me to my knees sometimes. I guess what they say is true...when you're on your knees your in the … [Read more...]

02
Feb 2012

52 Faces | Week 5

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I thought I might have something interesting and insightful to share today to go along with my 52 Faces post. Thought I could be as profound in my posts as Laura is in hers, but I'm just not. At least, not this week. This week we've done a whole lot of snow-shoveling, movie watching, Wordpress Site Installing and Cars playing. We've gotten another foot or so of snow this week (that's a rough estimate...I'm only going off of how many inches I have shoveling since Sunday) that's resulted in … [Read more...]

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Jan 2012

52 Faces | Week Four

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Are we already through the month of January already? Someone, somewhere needs to slow things down a bit. I'm not even over Christmas yet and Walmart is already bombarding me with big, stuffed Teddy Bears and boxes of stale chocolate. I even bought Little Man a box of Mickey Mouse Valentines Day cards the other day. He tore into them like it was a toy...until he realized that they were, in fact, just plain cards. Then he moved on to demolishing playing with something else. I didn't make it out … [Read more...]

19
Jan 2012

52 Faces | Week Three

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I have to start by saying that this is the last set of pictures I'll be taking...with my Canon Rebel. Because I ordered my new Canon 7D on Tuesday and it will be here before next Wednesday's Project 52 shoot! I. am. ecstatic. I've been itching to upgrade for months and months and months, especially since I started shooting in manual. My Rebel is a fantastic camera, but I feel extremely limited by it's ISO capabilities. Especially here in Kodiak where the lighting is so blue and dim. I feel … [Read more...]

11
Jan 2012

52 Faces | Week 2

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I don't know how many of you out there follow football, but Monday night was a big night for us Crimson Tide fans. Our beloved team beat LSU 21-0 in the BCS National Championship Game, bringing home National Title #14 for us Bamers. It was a great night to be a SEC Football fan. So, when it came time to take pictures this week for my 52 Faces challenge, I knew that getting Little Man all dressed up in a bit of Alabama attire would be necessary. After all, this is the second National … [Read more...]

06
Jan 2012

52 Faces | Week One

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52 Faces | Week 1

Is anyone other than me having a hard time getting into the swing of things now that Christmas and the holidays are over? What is it about that first week back that just seems to drag and drag and drag? I can't seem to find a whole lot of motivation; which sounds funny considering how much work I've actually got done this week. I mentioned Monday that I had a few projects up my sleeve for 2012. One of those is a Project 52 challenge (take one photo a week for an entire year). I gave Project … [Read more...]