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It is not an official Christmas portrait without Grandma. She looks so happy and proud of all of us. Well, maybe not Monte ...
This one by far is my favorite of the night of looking at Christmas Lights. A little Black and White action to set the tone here...
We went driving around looking at Christmas Lights on Christmas Eve in Linden Estates in Omaha. The houses are huge and gorgeous! No doubt they get professionals to come and decorate.
Only a few came out good enough for editing and posting, though.....hard to shoot good pics from a moving vehicle.
(Note: This photo made it all the way up to #96 in Explore before it dropped out)
Jim and I drove from our home in Valdosta to my sister's house in Atlanta to celebrate Christmas with Mother, Daddy, Paulette, and DeWayne. We all rode in the van to the Marta station and rode to the Atlanta High Museum of Art to see the China Exhibit.
Our lovely daughter Daphne . With my SB600 and a transculent umbrella on the left side of Daphne . Remote with Nikon CLS.
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Made by my 2 year old daughter. The basis for this was a crafting kit that had the angel template and some bits and pieces for constructing the angel. We added the pom poms, colouring in, and the glitter glue. Looks great on the top of our tree!
Quick Christmas Card Art by Diana of Texas.
Be sure to contact me if you'd like her to do some original work for you!!
Thanks
A Christmas Cactus that has bloomed way before Christmas : ) Or is this a Thanksgiving Cactus? Taken yesterday in my kitchen.
i'm a sucker for just about any new coffee creamer flavor, and i'm especially fond of the seasonal holiday offerings. if nothing else, they further the theory that you can add the word "latte" to anything and it will then sound delicious. in spite of this, i'm also convinced that every one of these is just a modified variation of whatever might comprise a good "nog", and i picture a huge vat at the dairy processing plant labeled "artificial christmas flavoring".
Christmas Day 2011. Dinner with my dad's family at The Mandalay in downtown Honolulu, followed by Honolulu City Lights.
My Christmas reindeer, who is rather beautifully made and came from Tiger (and probably best not to ask about its manufacture...).
This photo is all about the background. I wanted to take a portrait of my daughter practicing her violin with nice Christmas tree light bokeh behind her. To get the effect I envisioned in our very small living room required a fairly careful balancing of lighting and camera settings.
On the lighting front, I used a flash with a 1/2 CTO gel through a white umbrella to camera right for key and a flash bounced off of a yellow room wall to camera left for fill. Both flashes were set at fairly low power to balance with the small tree lights at a wide aperture. To maximize the blurring and relative size of the tree lights in the background (which were only about three feet behind my daughter), I backed up as far as I could (maybe 6 feet), zoomed in tight, and set my lens to its maximum aperture (f/4). I could have used my shorter but brighter 50mm f/1.8 to achieve an even shallower depth of field, but the lights in the background would have then appeared much smaller.
You can read more about my thoughts on using longer lenses to isolate a subject against a background in this blog post
eriksphotoblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/using-focal-length-to...
This effect is caused by taking a long exposure (~1 sec) of some colored Christmas lights hung on the tree in the town square and tossing the camera gently.
I think it ends up looking a bit like Mardi Gras beads.
My 2006 Christmas edition is at the Laser Cutter getting cut for me. this is the Cardboard pattern which helped me get it to my liking.....
inspired by Canon learning school: www.canon.com.hk/en/club/article/itemDetail.do?itemId=102...
Strobist: Nissin Di866 on the camera on tripod; multi flash fire in frequency set to 13 hz; times to 5 power to 1/32. Used Canon len 100mm; f11; S 0.4 sec. Star filter on the len.