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Photo 365: Day 236 – TDS: Soft light

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Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photograph with soft light today. Try to almost totally eliminate shadows on your subject.

I had some vacation time to burn and took couple of days-off from work – hence the early post for my 365 project.

It’s been quite some time now since I last posted a food themed photo shot. Further I cooked yellow curry tofu with home grown hot peppers for lunch. Hence decided to combine TDS: soft light assignment with food theme  for todays shoot.

To bring a “soft” effect, used soft-focus filter – I think I bought this filter about 8+ years ago on ebay and have used it few times now in my 365 project. Had this shot with 50mm @f/1.8 using natural window lighting.

Photo 365: Day 235 – TDS: Tool

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Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photo of a tool today. Screwdriver. Pliers. Computer. What’s the tool you find most important on a daily basis?

When I saw this TDS: Tool assignment this AM, what came to mind was my 5+ year old amazon.com bought, $10.00 swiss army knife 😉

I find it useful in one way or the other (although not everyday) and is real versatile tool that goes with me everywhere.

The challenge was how do I shoot it to make it look interesting. So had it rest against a cut kiwi fruit to bring in more color to this composition.

Photo 365: Day 234 – TDS: Low Key

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Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a low key photo today with lots of dark areas. You might need to use exposure compensation to make it work.

Didn’t get to shoot for todays photo post until about 9:00 PM this evening. School season has started here and we have gotten busy with my daughter’s outside school activities.

So when I got settled in for shooting, I started racking my brain on what to shoot for TDS: Low Key assignment 😉

I was looking for a subject with lot of black areas and as I was already in the kitchen, I happen to notice the dishwasher which had the door opened. Bingo – found my subject. It’s the dishes in the dishwasher with the lower rack pulled in to make it a low key spot.

Had this shot with Nikon 50mm prime @f/8 for 2sec exposure.

Photo 365: Day 233 – TDS: 5

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Todays daily shoot assignment: Today’s number is 5. Make a photo that illustrates the number in some way, either literally or abstractly.

While cleaning up the basement couple of weeks ago I found these cool colored rocks in a ziplock bag. I am guessing my daughter had collected these at some point 😉

I have been wanting to shoot these rocks for my 365 project. So when I saw this TDS: 5 assignment early this AM, I made my mind to shoot this for todays photo post.

Due to its shinny surface, I had a hard time setting these rock atop one another. A little bit “putty” magic did the trick.

Shot this using Nikkor 60mm macro lens using natural window lighting.

Photo 365: Day 232 – Papaya

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Not much inspiration for TDS assignment this evening 🙁

I had few try outs this evening with TDS: glass theme – but none of ’em turned out to my likeliness. So asked suggestion from my wife and she thought may be I should try out with papaya fruit that we had got from international grocery store yesterday.

So todays subject for my 365 project is Papaya 😉

Shot this using natural window lighting. Used 50mm Nikon prime @f5.6 for this shot.

There is one my photo post for day 232 – Papaya seeds: macro.

Photo 365: Day 232 – Papaya seeds: macro

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Macro shot of papaya seeds.

Used Sigma 150mm macro lens @f/5.6 for this macro shot.

Photo 365: Day 231 – TDS: High POV

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Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photograph from a high point of view. Get on top of a building, use a ladder, or just look down at a small object.

Portrait with high POV is my response for TDS: High POV assignment.

Another shot of my little one. Used window lighting for this shot. Since it was a bit late this evening when I shot this, had to bump up the ISO to 800 and use shallow DOF. Shot this using 50mm prime in RAW mode.

Used Coffeeshop’s creamy chocolate PS action for PP.

Photo 365: Day 230 – TDS: Shallow DOF

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Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photograph with a shallow depth of field today. Get in close if you need to force it with the lens you have.

I decided to use my 50mm prime @f/1.4 for todays assignment.

That’s my little boy watching cars passing by as we sat in our front porch this evening. It was quite hard to have him sit in one spot as he was excited by something or the other 😉

Photo 365: Day 229 – TDS: Something edible

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Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photograph of something you eat today. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack. Make it look tasty.

Had a chance to try potato straws that we had bought from Costco last week. That was the snack for this evening and the subject for TDS assignment.

It was definitely tasty but not sure if I had shot this to look tasty 😉

Photo 365: Day 228 – Triangle (bonus picture)

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I was going through some pictures from last week and I missed posting this shot. I shot this last week during my visit to Chicago.

I like the “angles” and lovely blue sky with dense clouds.