Desdamonad

Around Christmas I had the pleasure of doing some commercial photography for Jessica. Here is a photo from one of my favorite of her pieces:




Jessica has lots of great products. You can buy some here:



DesdamonaDoolittle


Many more photos from this photo shoot are in the chute as well!

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CAMERA: Sony SLT-A65V
ISO: 1600
FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm
APERTURE: f/13
EXPOSURE: 1/5
DATE: 12-26-2016 – 12:05
NO GPS DATA RECORDED
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Jessica

One Burning Desire

Way back in September, Boone burned down a house. Here is one of my favorite pictures from that day:


Practice

Many more of these other pictures to come.

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CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 250
FOCAL LENGTH: 135mm
APERTURE: f/5.6
EXPOSURE: 1/250
DATE: 09-25-2017 – 14:46
LATITUDE: 42.05975°
LONGITUDE: -93.87573°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Mom & Teresa
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: Sports talk radio.

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 80 – RURAL

A pretty solid week of submissions. Even the “New York Voice” was able to find some RURAL.

But you didn’t come here to hear me talk all tommyrot about the quality of submissions. You cam here to see the submissions:


WEEK 80 - RURAL - KIM BARKER
Kim Barker

WEEK 80 - RURAL - LOGAN KAHLER
Logan Kahler

WEEK 80 - RURAL - STEPHANIE KIM
Stephanie Kim

WEEK 80 - RURAL - ANGIE DEWAARD
Angie DeWaard

WEEK 80 - RURAL - CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT
Christopher D. Bennett

WEEK 80 - RURAL - MICKY AUGUSTIN
Micky Augustin

WEEK 80 - RURAL - CATHIE RALEY
Cathie Raley

WEEK 80 - RURAL - CARLA STENSLAND
Carla Stensland

But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:


WEEK 81 - FACELESS PORTRAIT
FACELESS PORTRAIT!

FACELESS PORTRAIT is another one of my favorite themes. Perhaps it is because regular portrait photography is so stale and boring. Perhaps it is because I can never find a face to photograph that is as pretty as mine. I don’t know the reason. The point is, I love this theme!

All this theme is, is a portrait of somebody where there is no face. That doesn’t mean that the face is obscured in the photo. The head could be completely cropped out of your composition. It could be a picture of hands or feet (if you’re a creeper) or any body part, just no face.

So get out there and find a volunteer or do some candid photography. Just no faces!

HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

1. The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. This isn’t a curate your pictures challenge. This is a get your butt off the couch (my personal experience) and put your camera in your hands challenge. Don’t send me a picture of you next to the Eiffel Tower, when I know you were in Iowa all week. I will point out that I have let that slide some in the past. I will not in the future. Since it is literally about the only rule.

2. Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge. It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.

That is it, them’s the rules.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION

Nothing new to report. I’ll try to do better next week.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 GALLERY DIVISION

Sometimes people send me descriptions of their photos. I’ve never done anything with that information in the past. However, if you send me a description in the future, I will add it to your image in the Weekly Photo Challenge Gallery that houses all the submissions.

That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very faceless Monday!

A Basic Human Right

If we pretend that I posted this on the day that I’m pretended I posted this picture on, this sign from the Women’s March would be apropos.


A Basic Human Right

There will probably be a big dump of the rest of these photos coming soon. In 2 weeks, I predict.

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CAMERA: Sony SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 70mm
APERTURE: f/6.3
EXPOSURE: 1/160
DATE: 01/21/2017 – 12:21
LATITUDE; 41.59059°
LONGITUDE: -93.60603°
PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Shawn, Jen, Sara, Evie, Layla, and Gretchen
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: WELCOME TO AMERICA by LeCrae from “Anomaly”