Project 365 - Days 13-19
Today is my Friday. Then I have an 11 day weekend! STOKED!
I may not update my blog for a few weeks, so I wanted to get everyone caught up with my Project 365 before I get too far behind. Most of the pictures I've taken for this set have been on the fly without much setting up. It's convenient and doesn't take me away from the moment. I'm happy to be able to capture images as the scene develops in front of my camera, but I would still like to concentrate on some setup shots for future pictures. Unfortunately, setting up a shot takes more time and effort on my part. Something I can easily manage as long as I commit to doing it right. Anyway...on to the pictures!
[013/365] :: Continuing the food theme of the cupcake, I decided to shoot what I was having for dinner for Day 13. Homemade tacos, spanish rice, and beans! HAHA! YUM! The Sigma 30/1.4 has rarely left my camera body since purchasing it and I've been playing around with the shallow DOF (Depth of Field) that the wide f/1.4 aperture allows. This was taken indoors, at night, in low light. The wide aperture allowed me to shoot with at ISO100 at 1/10 sec. I think I would have gotten a better shot if I had raised ISO to 400 and maybe 1/30sec, but I like how this one turned out.
[014/365] :: More low light action with the Sigma 30/1.4! I took into account the settings from Day 13's shot and upped my ISO to 400 and shutter speed to 1/30sec. I think I ended up with a much better capture on this day! I focused on the little guy's sausage fingers and toes. He's become all too familiar with the Mac interface on both my MacBook Pro and our iPad. He's actually queueing up a Yo Gabba Gabba! video in this picture. Little Genius.
[015/365] :: More food pron! Pigs-in-a-Blanket. Delicious...but looking kinda phallic. There isn't much else to say about this shot. I think my favorite part of the shot are bokeh highlights on the upper right corner.
[016/365] :: If you haven't figured it out yet from my previous posts, I love to surf. This is my surfboard. I have other surfboards, but this is The One. It's my quiver killer. A Firewire Dominator FST: 5'10" x 20.25" x 2.50". It's the best board I've ever ridden and it'll be a hard one to ever replace. I normally had riden this board as a quad fin and had never tried it as a tri-fin thruster until this day. The waves were picking up and I decided to see if I could get more directional feel with the thruster setup. Long story short, it worked! I think I'll be keeping the thruster setup for a while and maybe change it back to a quad setup when summer comes around.
[017/365] :: Dressed the little kid up in his warrior tee and took him to the park. Kid had a blast and even posed for some pictures for me. This is his Warrior Cheese pose. I shot it with the Canon 135L. This is a marvelous piece of glass and I love every picture that I take with it! The backgrounds just melt away and the subjects pop! Focus was spot on using AI Servo on the camera because the kid was walking towards me in this shot. There were some hotspots in this shot that I had to correct due to my not paying attention to shutter speeds (user error), but I believe the final image turned out great.
[018/365] :: I had a completely different shot lined up for Day 18, but after loading it into the camera, I saw that I had missed focus and the shot was unusable. It was getting late and I didn't want to drive somewhere to find a shot with my son in tow. Then I remembered that there was a full moon out tonight. I hadn't shot with my 400L in a while, so why not now? I quickly bundled up the kid and we went outside to look for the moon. I setup the tripod for this shot and used live view on my camera's LCD to get focus just right. It only took me 3 exposures to get this shot. It was my first time shooting the moon with the Canon 400/5.6L. I'm glad that I've found another use for the lens besides shooting surf.
[019/365] :: It's 11:35pm on Day 19 as I'm typing this entry. I finally was able to select a photo to use for today with some time to spare. Restaurant Week kicked off in San Diego this week and we had to take advantage of it before it ends. It's a great opportunity to try out different restaurants in town with 3-course meals at greatly reduced prices. Good food and great company was the recipe for the night. Good times all around.
And that's it for this posting. I'll continue snapping pictures everyday and have more pictures for Project 365 soon! I will also have more surf for everyone, too! Stay tuned!
