Showing posts with label 52 photos project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 52 photos project. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

One subject at different angles...

Every year about this time, I get all excited when my daisies start opening up their cute little heads and I grab my camera and take massive amounts of pictures from every angle and proudly hang their portraits above my bed as if they were the newest member of the family.

I'm not kidding.

This year, my excitement level dwindled a bit as I've watched them grow.

Or rather, not grow.

*whine*

A huge majority of my daisies did not even bother to come up this year. Apparently, they've had enough of trying to thrive amongst all the weeds. I know how they feel.

Thus, my poor little lone (so far) daisy out back looks so... alone.
And sad.

I tried to cheer it up by taking it's picture, but alas, my efforts were in vain. It does have about four little friends working their way out into the open, though. Hang on, little daisy, you won't be alone forever.
This weeks 52 Photos project challenge was to take pictures of one subject at different angles. I had already been doing this over the past several days, trying to master the manual setting on my Nikon. (All pictures are straight out of the camera.)

Okay, "master" is a stretch. I'd settle for becoming more comfortable with it.

Different lighting.
Different angles.
Discovered that the ISO was set to 2000 for absolutely no reason, which is always a wonderful thing to notice when you are good and tired of your little photo shoot.

*note to self... check the ISO more often*

Perhaps I will try again another day.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

52 Photos - Color

It's almost mothers day. That means it was time for the annual mother/daughter activity at the church. Because it wasn't on a Saturday morning, we actually went this year. Besides, who could pass up the opportunity to dress like my favorite 10 year old? Lucky for me, her most favorite outfit in the whole wide world is an Aeropostale t-shirt and a pair of jeans. That is an outfit I can do, especially if it means a trip to the mall for matching colorful T-shirts!
We had a good time. We painted each others nails (and I even resisted the temptation to repaint mine when I got home - we went with a beautiful shade of orange to match our shirts) and made modest outfits out of newspaper and other "stuff". While the other girls ripped theirs off the second the "fashion show" was over, Ishee insisted upon wearing her's home. Do you hear Project Runway just screaming my name??? I think I have a real future there...
Thanks, Ishee, for being a most fantastic date last night.

Now if someone would just explain why my hair insists upon going this shade of red with perfectly placed grey highlights no matter what color I put on it.