I had to pick my daughter from her class this evening and as I was waiting for her, I took the picture of my key bunch with Fuji P&S F30. Later this evening I was able to give it a soft/faded feel using the CS4 action set that I had downloaded from Pioneer Woman Blog.
So kudos to Pioneer Woman for making the action set freely available for download.
Contrary to yesterday’s post, today’s photo post is not a cheerful/colorful one.
Did some experimentation with lighting this evening to capture this silhouette of netting on the screen door. Focused the camera at the netting towards the bright clouds/sky. Used manual mode and slightly overexposed to wash out netting that were out of focus. As I used 60mm macro with shallow depth of field, all the netting towards the far right and left appears almost washed out.
Later used Adobe RAW to add contrast. I kind of like it 😉
It was rather a cloudy, gloomy day this evening and I was looking for a colorful subject for today’s post. Rummaging our pantry, I found this box of dyed cheerios (a.k.a Fruit Loops) – we are not big fan of cereal fortified with HFCS at our house 😉
Anyway, stacked these up and took the picture with 1sec exposure. And for the backdrop used the cereal box – nice bokeh here 😉
We had a chance to try out Chicken Noodle Soup recipe from ‘The Pioneer Woman’ blog today.
Turned out really good. But I have to admit, it took about 4+ hours from start to finish and we have about 15+ servings of soup in the freezer 😉
Will definitely try this again…
My wife has been wanting me to take the picture of this decorated horse for quite some time and thought I should give it a try this noon. Used 50mm prime to capture this in natural lighting. To bring out the golden artwork, seated this on a black board and exposed for 1/3s.
That is a picture of my Fire Cracker plant ready for spring or nice weather so that it could be me moved out.
Currently I have Fire Cracker plant along with Curry leaves plant, and Arabian Jasmine plant in the basement. Though they have survived so far this winter, I could definitely see that these plants are under stress. As seen from the plant leaves, they are deprived of chlorophyll due to insufficient sun light.
I bet, if there were to talk they would grumble “Is it Spring yet?” 😉
I had taken my car for a wash this evening.
As I had my car cleaned, I saw this interesting pattern on the windshield. There was light falling on the windshield from the wide open door just in front of the wash station, there was a splash of suds and the roller brush was just beginning to spin. I happened to have my travel P&S Fuji F30 and took few pictures. Had to crop this in post processing. I call this a splash of suds and colors 😉
Ah its one of those days…didn’t get to decide on what would be the subject for today’s photo post until the last moment (its 9:15 PM already). I try to take most of the pictures with natural lighting and I know my choices for today’s post with natural lighting is next to 0.
We have these cute artificial floral arrangement on out mantel and thought I should try with this and see how it turns out. Had to take out my trusty SB-600 flash to capture this as I was taking this against a black background and I know if I am to expose this for long exposure, shadows will ruin the picture. I think it turned out OK 😉
Upon returning from picking up our mail this evening, I noticed that the Daffodils have started to germinate.
Definitely seems like a sign of spring 😉
