With sweet potatoes hitting 0.10/lb decided to try the Casual Kitchen’s – Groundnut Stew.
This soup turned out really yummy after some minor tweaks to the recipe 😉
For this shot, I decided to go with the top/down POV. Added sweet potato, and cabbage to this composition as these are the key ingredients in this frugal soup.
Brrr…another windy, and cold day here in St. Louis. And day:336 shot to depict the weather in our area.
Now that there is limited light available, decided to do something with real low light last night – yes; this was shot last night after I posted my shot for day:334
I got inspired for doing portraits after looking at some of the portrait work by Brhum’ Bhatia – he does an awesome job with portraits.
Anyway, talked to my wife about posing for this shot and she was readily willing…I haven’t done a portrait shot of her for quite some time now.
So had this shot with a single light source – that being from an iTouch app iLlumination. For this shot, I had to set the focus right with the lights ON. Once I had the focus set, I took this shot with my wife’s face lit by iTouch @f/4.5 for 2.0 sec exposure.
My daughter was a great helper for this shot as well. She was the “light” girl last night. By the end of this shoot she whispered, “Oh I don’t mind if you gave me the credit in your blog post”. That made me chuckle – last week she was debating how she doesn’t like getting a credit. She is another regular in-house visitor to my blog post.
Another quick one for day:334
Got back from work and surprisingly there was still natural light available (although it was barely there)…so quickly had to set my camera on my tripod to shoot this symmetry/monotone shot of our plantain tree leaf.
Had this shot @f/8.0 for 2.5 sec exposure.
Another portrait for my Photo 365 project.
My 3yr old was in a good mood this evening and he didn’t mind me taking his portraits – may be because he was checking out his new laptop toy…
You have seen 2 little froggies couple of days ago…and here are three little froggies.
You may call this as a sequel or The Return of the froggies 😉
Had this shot couple of days ago when there was plenty of sunshine around and when I had more time.
Another rainy day here in St. Louis. By the time I got home this evening after sitting in rain/traffic, there wasn’t any natural light for my daily shoot.
So thought I will shoot something to depict the weather here – that’s how I ended up with this rainy day symmetry.
As I had left my umbrella in the garage to dry out, I noticed the interesting color/pattern formed by the garage light falling through the umbrella. Had this shot with 50mm @f/1.4 for 1/25th sec exposure.
It’s one of those days with not much inspiration. Have you ever felt while browsing the endless internet that You’ve reached the end of the internet?
That’s the kind of the day this was – I had the feel, that I had nothing else to shoot. With my 60mm macro attached to D70, I was aimlessly shooting and then I came across this Hand Mixer Turbo Beater accessory in the kitchen (that’s my primary shooting area) and thought I should do a macro shot.
Then had this shot by sitting it on a plastic green cup…so I guess I did alright for day: 330
Just 30+ days more to go on this project….may be I should start a countdown 😉
Realized I haven’t done a portrait post in a while.
Finding a subject for my shoot was a bit tough this morning. I couldn’t have my 3yr old boy to stay in one place and my daughter wouldn’t pose – she got my gene that takes comfort in staying behind the camera 🙂
So I had to convince her that I will use the technique of selective focusing to put her out of focus…No I didn’t say that. I think that’s a bit too much for a 7yr old. I just told her that she won’t be in the picture…call me a liar!
Anyway, I like the way this turned out. Now I need to go convince her before she see’s this post 😉
Another food related shot for my 365 project…
Whenever there is a feast there are leftovers and we ended up with Leftovers Panini for brunch. We had roasted vegetables (the good stuff) from yesterday and a quick warming, then on the stove top grill in-between wheat bread with cheese did the trick.
Thought I will throw in the grill and cast iron press in the background for this food shot.
My daughter was there to help me this morning by holding a white plate to fill in the shadows…by the end of the shoot, she said “I don’t like being a photo helper but rather be a gal behind the camera”.
I guess another young photog in the offing 😉