Photo 365: Day 32 – Angelina Ballerina

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Here is a happy meal toy (I believe it came from Subway) that my daughter  had with her toys collection.

I like taking pictures in natural lighting and it was a bit tricky taking this with limited lighting this evening – it was an overcast day and had to take this when I got back from work when the Sun was getting ready to set. If you look closer at her face (towards right), you’ll see its underexposed. Tried the shutter to remain open for about a second, but the other half turned overexposed. Finally settled with the above capture – though I kind of like this capture 😉

Photo 365: Day 31 – Mini Cranberry Scones

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Sunday is a baking day for us. Our daughter started going to school last year and we bake most of our snacks/bread at home on Sunday. Followed this easy to follow recipe from Baker’s Banter blog – we made it tad healthier by adding in oat bran, cranberries and flax meal.

Photo 365: Day 30 – Mexican Bean Beetle

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The other day when cleaning up my garage I came across this dead Mexican bean beetle. Had this stored in a ziploc bag for a macro capture and had this shot using my Nikkor 60mm macro for today’s post. Earlier I tried capturing this with reverse mount BR-2A/28mm prime but didn’t workout very well.

Photo 365: Day 29 – Breakfast Cereal

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That’s breakfast cereals in our pantry. I had something else in mind for today’s post, but got the idea to picture the cereals at the 11th hour 🙂
We love cereal at our home – its cheap and tastes good. Got Milk?

From left to right:
Bob’s thick cut oats – these are the best that I’ve tasted. Tastes great both in Bircher Muesli and as porridge. Also great for home made granola.
Kix – that’s my daughters snack.
Mini wheat – not really a healthy kind but when you got that sugar craving, can’t beat mini wheat and cold milk.
Cheerios – that’s my kiddos snack.
Wheetabix – Got introduced to Wheetabix by a friend who came from the UK. Tastes great with cold milk and a hint of sugar.
Steel cut oats – one of my other favorites. Takes a little bit of time to make porridge out of this, but its worth waiting.

Photo 365: Day 28 – That’s my dinner…

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Spaghetti stir fry…that’s my dinner.

I had a different idea for today’s post, but my wife suggested may be I should try food photography. True, I haven’t taken food photographs for quite some time now. So I was delighted to take the picture of stir fry. Further, we had good amount of sunlight this evening coming through the window and took this picture in natural lighting.

Photo 365: Day 27 – Fuji Apple

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I got the idea for today’s post from Flickr. Here are some ideas on how this was done.

Obviously you need an Apple for this project 😉
Used a spray bottle to create water drops effect and a black yoga mat for the backdrop. I had this set up in the basement where I could have more control over the light. Turned off all the lights source –  except a project light with a wax paper on top, lit from the left side. Then had my D70/Nikkor 60mm macro set on my tripod and shot this in full manual mode.

I am not totally satisfied with this though. I think the front was overexposed. May be next time, I need to play with the lighting setup.

Photo 365: Day 26 – Colorful Thread Spindles

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Originally I was wanting to post a macro capture of a bubble. That didn’t workout very well. I had unsuccessfully tried capturing a bubble from a GermX pump using a reverse mounted Br-2a/28mm prime combination. I didn’t like the way it turned out. So I was going through our closet and came across this box with mending supplies. Played around a bit with setup and finally got this colorful capture. Another post using my Nikkor 60mm macro lens.

Photo 365: Day 25 – Rusty Bolt

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I had to renew my license plates today. As I was preparing to remove my old license plates over the past weekend, I found that the bolts were really rusty and had a hard time to get them off the license plates – those plates were there in the car for almost 10+ years now. So when I got back from DMV office this evening, I saw these rusty bolts and thought these were good subject for today’s post.So here are the rusty bolts sitting atop the new license plate.

Photo 365: Day 24 – Knots

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As I was looking for a subject for today’s post, I saw my daughter’s wicker bag. I really liked the pattern of knots on her bag. Framed it using my Nikkor 60mm macro and shot this at f18 and 1second exposure.

Photo 365: Day 23 – Split Coconut

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We had this coconut sitting in our counter top for more that a week now ready to be opened/slit. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t spoiled when I had this split open this noon – typically we tend to split coconut as soon as we get it from the store 🙂

I bought a couple of cheapo project clamp lights from Homedepot store and used it to lit the coconuts. I used my 50mm prime to capture this in full manual mode.

I thought it came out good.