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Slice of Life Vol. 8
Category Archives: Photography
Orphaned Flowers
Here is a collection of flower pictures that didn’t quite fit into earlier or future postings.
Cleanup
Here are some pictures from a couple of celebrations that I attended a long while ago, but never quite found the time to post:
Johnathan’s Graduation Open House
Shannon Birthday Campout
RWPE #29 – Depth of Field
The submissions for last week’s theme DEPTH OF FIELD:
Christopher D. Bennett
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Becky Perkovich
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Dawn Krause
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Julie Johnson
Mike Vest
Remember that the theme for this week is:
REFLECTIONS
I will repeat that I think that this might be my favorite theme of the 52 programmed into the Random Theme Generator.
Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 27
2/6
This is a 6 (in reality a 7 part project but shhhh….. both of you that know the endgame) part project. In case you have forgotten:
Part 1
More pictures from The 2/6 Photo Session:
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Part 3/6 is scheduled to be published on September 17.
I am headed to Minnesota tonight with Sara to eat at Gasthof Zur Gemutlickeit, see Troll 2, witness Flugtag and of course see The Swell Season in concert. I’m also hoping to catch up with some Minnesota friends (Jill, The Britsons, Matthew) and formally congratulate Bethany and John on their engagement.
I’m returning to the Cyclone State on Monday at a time yet to be determined. Since I don’t want anybody to lose a minute of time on next week’s RWPE I will reveal the Random Generator’s choice for next week’s theme now:
REFLECTIONS
Personally I think this is the best of the 52 themes. I hope there are lots of submissions. I’m looking at you people that I have helped buy a camera in the past…
Slice of Life Vol. 7
Written on the slide:
“Ice Fisherman on Don Williams Lake in Boone Co. Ice fisherman is Lawrence Bunda of Moorland, Iowa.
Winter Contest – Picture Mag. – Des Moines Register”
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First Act
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
Pablo Picasso
Some more pictures from my walk around a half block of downtown Boone.
I might have to spend some more time in the seedy back alleys of Boone, Iowa in the future.
Dr. The Incidental Gardener
Since today is/was an extremely big day for the person that gave me the name “The Incidental Gardener”, I thought I would share a few more things from the files of The Incidental Gardener.
For FNSC last week Carrie, Jason and I helped Nader move some of the hundreds of boxes of movies and paraphernalia into storage. While I was waiting for the Baiers to arrive I took some photos of a lovely flowerbed that sits near Nader’s current apartment. The Incidental Gardener liked what he saw.
I am temporarily storing some of Nader’s movies at my place. While we were dropping off boxes filled with movies, Carrie admired many of my flowers. She asked for my advice on how to grow such a lovely collection of flowers. I offered her some of my wisdom. Here are a few pictures from The Incidental Gardener’s personal collection.
In closing, congratulations to Angie and Jon on their big day!
RWPE #28 – Calm
Last week’s submissions for CALM:
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Carla Stensland
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Dawn Krause
Christopher D. Bennett
Mike Vest
The Random Generator has been randomizing and randomizing and finally it has generated the theme for this week:
DEPTH OF FIELD
This is a slightly more technical theme than most of the themes. Here is a good definition of DEPTH OF FIELD:
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 camera 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. Here are a few examples:
Of course, feel free to use your own definition of DEPTH OF FIELD.
Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 26 Gamma
The last of the State Center pictures:
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