These negatives seem to be highly damaged, but I still think there is some interesting stuff in here.
Slice of Life Vol. 54
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Evie
My Memorial Day was 1 of the more interesting days I’ve ever experienced. It was filled with violent ups and downs, but perhaps the highest peak was photographing Evie. Here are some of the pictures from that photo shoot.
You can view a ton more Evie photos in the STORE by clicking on the link below:
EVIE
There is no doubt that Jen and Derrick produced one irresistible child!
Next week’s random Wednesday collection will involve the Little League Challenger program.
The Archives: Edition Twenty-One
These pictures come from: Backup/Old My Pictures/Labels
I once had an idea where I had my friends do a little exercise in self-realization. I asked them to pick a word. One word that they wanted the world to think of when the world saw them. Then I had them write that word on a piece of poster board and then I photographed them.
I was going to follow this up with a project where I had them pick one word that they thought was how the world perceived them.
I sometimes think about bringing this project back. Perhaps if bring back the BIG birthday party next year.
These are pictures from the Labels Project.
Next Week’s Folder will be:
Backup/Old My Pictures/Master Wentworth
RWPE Y2 #23 – DEPTH OF FIELD
There wasn’t a sudden burst of more submissions this week, but I am pleased with the quality of submissions. For the first time in roughly 8 weeks, I even like my submission. The final 30 or so weeks of RWPE Y2 has some signs of hope.
Here are the submissions for DEPTH OF FIELD:
Mike Vest of Waxen Media
IMAGE LOST
Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey
Christopher D. Bennett
The theme for this week is:
PEOPLE
Here is a look back at last year’s submissions for PEOPLE:
PEOPLE-2010
This is the part where I would normally point out that this is a really easy theme because everybody knows somebody, but I’m starting to think everybody I know suffers from some form of social anxiety disorder or another. You can rest assured I will have a PEOPLE picture. After all, I know people.
Happy Birthday Shannon!!(Count the Excitement!)
This is a tradition that I have gotten away from for awhile, but I do wish to start it up again.
This photo tribute is my way of saying Happy birthday to Shannon.
I believe Jen Gorshe is up next for the birthday photo tribute.
Personal Photo Project of the Week #71
Coexistence
I took these pictures of turkeys at Micky’s dad’s place after our turkey “hunt”.
If you are interested in Micky’s world, I would urge you to visit his new re-designed website:
AM Outdoors
Next week’s Personal Photo Project deals with that most tricky of birds, the peacock.
Slice of Life Vol. 53
I think some of these pictures might have processed funny, but oh well, they still look cool.
Graduation
Elainie graduated a couple weeks back. Here are a couple of pictures from the day.
I didn’t take a camera to the Open House for some reason. I clearly now regret that.
Next Wednesday’s randomness will feature pictures of Evie.
The Archives: Edition Twenty
These pictures come from the following folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/Jones Soda
These pictures might come as kind of shocking. So I better give a small bit of back story.
If there was ever a chance for me to be a cult leader it was when I was the closing assistant at the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire. It was the peak of my charisma. It was the peak of the power of my sideburns. I was practically a town/county celebrity and for all of the right reasons. People did and said what I told them to and everybody wanted to be in my company.
However, I didn’t use my power, charisma, and sideburns to form a cult. At least not a religious cult. I used them to introduce my love of Jones Soda to the people that surrounded me and to get them to love Jones Soda.
Jones Soda, I say.
You see, I’m not a boring and uninteresting person. I’ve never been a boring and uninteresting person. I don’t surround myself with boring and uninteresting people. Therefore alcohol has never been and never will be an important part of my life. Actually it is no longer a part of my life period.
Sure I know plenty of people that place a premium on alcohol in their value system. I’m sure if I were them I would probably need alcohol to put up with being them too. But I’m not them, I’m me, and I don’t need to medicate away the pain of being me, because I am “amazing”, “wonderful”, my talent “knows no bounds”, and “the bringer of awesome”.
That doesn’t mean I don’t like to get together with a few chums after a hard night of serving what is laughingly considered food to some of the finest white trash in all of Boone County and have a few frosty cold beverages. Only the frosty cold beverages I enjoy are Jones Soda’s Green Apple Soda or their Fufu Berry or their Grape. All divine creations.
So it was on a hot, humid night that the 4 of us clustered into Action’s basement and made these 2 pictures with a webcam.
These two pictures existed because we were sending them to two separate places.
The first picture we sent to Jones Soda to show our love for their superior product.
The 2nd picture we sent to Hy-Vee (at least I think we did or we might have just sent a strongly worded letter that pointed out the economic impact of their poor decision) to show them exactly how we felt about a stocking decision they had made.
Jones Soda makes an energy drink called Whoop Ass! The Boone Hy-Vee decided to stop stocking Whoop Ass! because some old battle axe complained about the name of the product.
The Edge actually sent our letter on to Jones Soda and they rewarded us with a case of Whoop Ass! It was a monumental victory for the little guy!
Hy-Vee never re-stocked Whoop Ass! I’m frankly amazed that they are still in business.
Next week’s pictures come from the following folder:
Backup/Old My Pictures/Labels
RWPE Y2 #22 – SHADOWS
Looks like the Random Weekly Photo Experiment has run its course as submissions are starting to become few and far between. Looks like I need to start thinking about what it is I’m going to post on Mondays next year.
Here are the submissions for SHADOWS:
Mike Vest
Christopher D. Bennett
The theme for next week:
DEPTH OF FIELD
A look back at last year’s DEPTH OF FIELD submissions:
DEPTH OF FIELD – 2010
Forgot what DEPTH OF FIELD is? Here is a refresher:
Depth of field (DOF) is the portion of a scene that appears acceptably sharp in the image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions.
Depth of Field is controlled by the size of the aperture used to take a picture. The larger the aperture, the smaller the Depth of Field. The smaller the aperture, the larger the Depth of Field. If you want only one item in a picture to be in focus, then you use a large aperture. If you want almost the whole picture to be in focus, then you use a small aperture.
One thing to note about aperture sizes, the larger the number, the smaller the aperture. f/1.4 is much larger than f/32.
Perhaps you don’t know how to control the size of the aperture on your camera. You can still fake it. Almost all cameras have “Creative Control” settings. If you set your camera on “Portrait”, almost always symbolized by a sideways icon of a woman’s face, then the camera will use exposure settings with the largest aperture possible. If you set your camera to “Landscape” almost always symbolized by a mountain icon, the camera will use exposure settings with the smallest aperture possible.
DEPTH OF FIELD is usually meant to describe a picture taken with a large aperture to separate the subject of a picture from its background.
Remember: Submissions are due to bennett@photography139.com by noon on Monday.
I’d say good luck, but it would seem somewhat pointless.