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Photo 365: Day 238 -TDS:Repetition

August 28, 2010/9 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

Todays daily shoot assignment: Use repetition to create an interesting photograph today. Grids, patterns, or a series of lines will all do the trick.

We are not a big fan of store bought yogurt. We prefer homemade yogurt over store bought yogurt. But my wife had volunteered to prepare food made of yogurt for a picnic this afternoon and I did some grocery shopping this morning and these yogurt tubs were among them.

These were perfect for TDS:repetition assignment.

There is one more picture post for TDS:Repetition assignment.

Photo 365: Day 238 – TDS:Repetition

August 28, 2010/5 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

Bonus picture for Day:238 TDS:repetition assignment – windows shades & shadows.

Photo 365: Day 236 – TDS: Soft light

August 26, 2010/10 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

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 234 – TDS: Low Key

August 24, 2010/12 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

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 232 – Papaya

August 22, 2010/10 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

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 228 – Bokeh

August 18, 2010/8 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

Not much inspiration for today. Took few pictures in the backyard this evening and didn’t like the way they turned out.

So this is a shot I took yesterday while returning back from the park. As we were waiting for the signal to turn green, shot this bokeh. Those red spots on the top are the red signal and those on the bottom are from the headlights of the oncoming cars.

Photo 365: Day 224 – TDS:Motion Blur

August 14, 2010/9 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

Todays daily shoot assignment: Make a photograph with motion blur today. Use a fast moving subject or a slow shutter speed can do the trick.

Fast moving subject: That would be my little boy on his Radio Flyer tricycle 😉

Photo 365: Day 167 – Axed

June 16, 2010/6 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

That’s what I was doing this evening – cut up my credit cards.

I wonder if it’s only me – I get this good feeling when my cut up my credit card. No more temptations to buy new camera gear nor annoying bills from the bank 😉

I wish it was for good though. It’s just that I was going through my junk drawer and cleaning up old cards that haven’t seen daylight in years.

Photo 365: Day 165 – Cool straw

June 14, 2010/13 Comments/in photo 365/by patty

That’s a cool looking straw on a water bottle that my daughter got on her friend’s birthday party – I think it was on her goody bag.

This evening I was wanting to try out my 50mm prime and had this shot against the bright light coming in through the window shade. Used spot metering to get the exposure and manually adjusted until I got the desired result. Since I shot this wide open, the background was totally out of focus.