I'm packing for my trip to the Dominican Republic. I was frantically trying to make sure that I had all my camera gear ready to go for the trip. I have to remember to buy AA batteries for my flashes! I have all my lenses and my point and shoot. My waterproof pouch is in the bag!
I can't wait to take photos and such while I am gone. I have a list of things that I want to take photos of while we are there!
I found a great place to go stay for a week while we are there in November. It is in the jungle and would be a great place for photo oportunities!
I want to get some more photos on the plane and in the airport!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
His Love
Axel is going to be 7 in a couple weeks. His passion lately is video games. He has gotten really good at a skateboarding game that we have for Gamecube. He spends alot of his time playing this game.
I love seeing his little hands work the huge controller when he is playing! He just knows what buttons to push to get the people to do what he wants them to. His hands have become so adept at using the controllers in the last little while.
A Special Day
On Tuesday I got a call from my father in law. He asked if I would watch my two nephews that lived with me when they were small. I said I would love to. So they came over at 4:30 on Wednesday. They slept over and Grandma came and picked all 6 kids up at 1pm on Thursday to take them out to her house.
I have not seen much of these two little boys in 6 years. They are great kids! Their Dad and his wife are doing a wonderful job raising them!
It was fun having 5 rambunctious little boys and 1 girl in the house!
Photographing in RAW format
I wanted to try photographing in RAW format. I just wanted to see what the difference was. Well I found it to be a royal pain in the butt!
I will not be doing photography in RAW format anymore. Unless it is for something important like Wedding Formals. Other than that...forget it!
Anyway, after spending most of yesterday trying to find a program that would let me view my RAW format photos. Altering them in RAW format and then transferring them to JPG format, I am now ready to post some of my photos!
I will not be doing photography in RAW format anymore. Unless it is for something important like Wedding Formals. Other than that...forget it!
Anyway, after spending most of yesterday trying to find a program that would let me view my RAW format photos. Altering them in RAW format and then transferring them to JPG format, I am now ready to post some of my photos!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Seeing others photos
The kids came home from their Dad's house. He has been sending the kids home with photos that have been taken of them there. He got them dollar store photo albums to put them in. They love them and I love seeing the things that they do when they are with their Dad.
However the photos are never very good. I still find it odd that they use a film camera. I have been using digital for so long it seems odd and old fashioned that someone would still take photos with a film camera!
The photos are often out of focus or too dark or over exposed. He doesn't seem to care that these things are wrong with the photos and sends them anyway. Often times you have to take a really hard look to see what child is in the picture because their face is all shadows because of their cowboy hat.
All the photos that I look at that he sends, I can't help thinking, if he had done this it would look better. If he had done this it would be exposed properly. He should have turned the kids this way or that to make it brighter and not so dark in this one.
However the photos are never very good. I still find it odd that they use a film camera. I have been using digital for so long it seems odd and old fashioned that someone would still take photos with a film camera!
The photos are often out of focus or too dark or over exposed. He doesn't seem to care that these things are wrong with the photos and sends them anyway. Often times you have to take a really hard look to see what child is in the picture because their face is all shadows because of their cowboy hat.
All the photos that I look at that he sends, I can't help thinking, if he had done this it would look better. If he had done this it would be exposed properly. He should have turned the kids this way or that to make it brighter and not so dark in this one.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Can I Fix It??? YES I CAN!!!!
At the last band camp, my hot shoe flash crapped out. I was heartbroken. I have been looking online for a new one. I spoke to a friend who is a photographer and she said not to spend less than $300 for a good flash!
So I took the flash out of the camera bag today to take a second look. There was some debris and build up on the connection where the battery goes. I took a Q-tip and some nail polish remover and cleaned the connection. Now the flash works like a charm!
I am so happy that I have a working flash again and I don't have to shell out $300 for a new one!
I am going on Thursday to the Vistek store to see if I can find a Gary Fong Lightsphere Cloud flash attatchment. I was going to order it online but it fits onto the flash and you need to make sure you get the right size so that it works right. So I will bring the flash with me and then I can know for SURE that I got the right one!
I am so looking forward to the Gary Fong attachment for my flash!
I also was thinking about what I could use for a back drop holder today and I think I have a great way of doing it that is portable....a little hillbilly but portable all the same! Everyone that knows me knows that I have some odd hillbilly quirks that rubbed off from the kids' Dad!
So I took the flash out of the camera bag today to take a second look. There was some debris and build up on the connection where the battery goes. I took a Q-tip and some nail polish remover and cleaned the connection. Now the flash works like a charm!
I am so happy that I have a working flash again and I don't have to shell out $300 for a new one!
I am going on Thursday to the Vistek store to see if I can find a Gary Fong Lightsphere Cloud flash attatchment. I was going to order it online but it fits onto the flash and you need to make sure you get the right size so that it works right. So I will bring the flash with me and then I can know for SURE that I got the right one!
I am so looking forward to the Gary Fong attachment for my flash!
I also was thinking about what I could use for a back drop holder today and I think I have a great way of doing it that is portable....a little hillbilly but portable all the same! Everyone that knows me knows that I have some odd hillbilly quirks that rubbed off from the kids' Dad!
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