Day 8 – July 23rd – Cool Waters

This evening we had an egagement session at the legislature grounds and I finally got what I think is a pretty cool shot of the main pool.   It’s very slightly lopsided but straoghtening it forces me to make it a square shot doesn’t quite work so well.  Also, I thought about getting rid of the cranes and the bird that looks like lint or soemthing, but I decided to leave it all and there is almost nothing altered in this shot apart from a very slight brightness and contrast adjustement.

Government Pool

Day 7 – July 22 – Clouds

Okay yes, I have a thing for clouds.  I’ve commented on it before but, I”m commenting again because this blog doesn’t have a comment on it yet.  So there.

Variety of clouds

Day 6 – July 21st. Ooops

Um, I kinda forgot all about this today.  Ooops.

Day 5 – July 20th – Airplane

Just grabbed this as I was finishing an Engagement photosession.  It was considerably closer moments before but I had already put my camera back in my car and had to retreive it and adjust settings.  Planes fly fast!

Plane Sky

Day 4 – July 19th – HDR Rain

Yesterdays subject matter a bit dull so today I decided to try getting rain on a window with dark clouds in the backround.  I think it worked quite well though it really doesn’t have much of an HDR feels to it.

HDR Rain

Day 3 – July 18th – HDR Shopping Carts

I’ve given this HDR thing a try a few times now and was never very successful.  But I recently picked up the Rick Sammon Book  “HDR Photography Secrets for Digital Photographers” and thought I’d give it another go.  Finding subject matter was the first mission.  Not an overly easy one either!  So while I hit up Walmart today I decided to try this.

HDR Carts

 Once finished I felt it was still kind of blah so ran it through Topaz Adjust 4 which finally gave it that HDR feel.  Still, not the most engaging subject.  I’ll keep trying when the opportunities strike.

Day 2 – July 17th – A yellow flower for you.

Today we went out and had a nice portrait session with a great family.  As always I try to shoot anything of interest and while Mel described a photography technique to one of the family members I turned andused that technique to try and get some shots of flys and bees on flowers.  Sadly, none of those turned out as the wind was enough to make focusing in close enough too difficult.  But I did end up with a few nice abstract shots.  This is the least abstract of them.

A yellow flower for you.

Have another round! – Day 1 – July 16th – 2010 – Self Portrait

After watching a very touching and inspiring documentary on War Photographer James Nachtwey (http://www.jamesnachtwey.com) I’ve decided to re-embark on the 365 trend.  This is my 3rd official go at it.  My first attempt ended the same time my marriage did and my second attempt just kind of fizzled out for various reasons.  Now the only things in my way are my jobs.  Two of my three jobs tend to limit the variety of locations and situations I might find myself in when looking for subject matter and that combined with the winter months proved to be a major component to the demise of round 2.

Have a look at the RULES page to see what guidelines I’ve given myself to follow this time ’round.

And with that, Here’s Round 3′s first image.

Conflict