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bits and pieces via shop66, etsy, ebay , also some super cute chairs (15 in fact!) through the lovely Renee (reyney) and an amazing felted squirrel made by Linda (feltedfolksies999).
More bits and pieces from a very distant relative's box of photographic goodies finally being sorted through. He was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
52 in 2020 Challenge
30. A rainy day
Not quite enough to fully replenish the supplies but it sure felt like it when it came down!
Okay, bit of a back story on this. "Connor McManly" asks a woman from the audience to be his "beer wench" during each of his Art of Wooing shows and when he says, "Beer Wench?" the audience tries to sound like an angelic choir while the woman holds up his beer stein for him. Which is a fairly amusing part of the act.
Connor saw this young lady in line at the beer stall right behind the stage, referred to her as the St. Pauli Girl (a German beer mascot) due to her traditional German Oktoberfest outfit, and asked her to hold his beer for him during the show. When he goes over the bit with the audience doing the choir thing, this young lady gives him back his beer and says, "I'm not your bitch!" and walks off.
I'm not going to pretend to know what was going on with her but the terms I have heard/researched for female German beer servers are either serving girls or beer wenches so he did say the correct term. Perhaps she was having a really bad day? Or misheard him? Dunno.
I took a photo of her (as part of the pre-show set-up as the main performer had approached her first and she agreed to it as the stein she is holding is the performer's) and in review, she really did seem... sad? Out of sorts? Upset prior to "beer wench" being said? She had some darker than normal circles under her eyes which I did minimize to a degree - my goal with photos is to present everyone in a flattering fashion while trying to tell a story with a stationary image - but I kept a good amount of those dark circles under her eyes as something clearing was making her unhappy at that moment.
I hope the rest of her faire experience turned out better after this scene. I'm truly not one of those men who say, "Wow, you'd be prettier if you smiled more," as she is welcome to feel how she feels, speak her mind, and not there for anyone's enjoyment (like a Barbie doll) let alone my enjoyment. But looking at this photo - even without the back story - it is fairly obvious she was not enjoying herself and it shows in her facial expression and body-language. But we all cannot be happy campers 24/7 and I wanted to show this bit of sad emotion as I felt it was important and real.
09/52 - 52 Weeks of 2018
"Product advertisement"
This was a bit harder than I expected. I knew I wanted a bit of a challenge. I figured I would try to highlight a local/regional brand (this is a microbrew from Lakeland, which is about midway between Orlando and Tampa). I could have done a wine bottle, but those can be a bit cliche (even though they aren't exactly easy to light well). I learned aluminum cans aren't easy to light either.
This gave me an opportunity to play around with my off camera flash and some modifiers, but I just didn't have decent space to move and position them as they probably should have been. And unfortunately I don't really have the time to play around some more this weekend. I do have a few other ideas, but maybe for a later date. Also, I learned how to remote capture directly to the laptop, so that really helped.
Last bit of green land on the way out from Yosemite National Park, heading towards Death Valley
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one of the cygnets sticking its tongue out,telling me that it feels the same about my plane photo's as alot of my contacts do
The only bit of sunshine that we had for our sunset shots- it lasted just a few seconds and then was gone.
Type : LPG Tanker (Gazier)
Pavillon : Suède 🇸🇪
Lancement : 2007
Chantier naval : Shanghai Edward Shipbuilding (Chine 🇨🇳)
Identification (IMO number) : 9309239
Longueur : 177,10 m
Largeur : 26,27 m
Tonnage : 17 757 tjb
SIGN FOR VIRGIN HAIR FOR SALE IN AN EAST LONDON BOROUGH SUBURB STREET MARKET TOWN ENGLAND. I GUESS IT'S A BIT TO LATE FOR ME TO SELL ANY OF MY HAIR. SS855206 C
Some embroidery from Anna Maria's Fields Aflutter pattern. You can see a little more of the special project here.
All new parts. All non-production except for the two-finger hinge pieces, which are just uncommon in green.
Paint them red and you'll nearly be there. However, Enviro400s might be common in London but these are the first Scania examples to have operated there. Having seen them on the Sunday on rail reps, Stephenson's Enviro400s were duping the 205. Buses on this service tended to run in pairs or greater.
Look closely and you will see one of natures reminders of the dangers out in the woods and by the waterways. Always be on the lookout for snakes. I was frustrated with the fact these limbs were blocking a good shot and just about grabbed them to move them when I noticed what was hiding inside. I'd already had already walked around them to the other side and was lucky I didn't get bit.
_ACB4868-Edit - A little bit of blue with some fluffy stuff from Bembridge at the weekend.
Bit more f'in around f22 at 1/40, probably on the high f's didn't look bad at f18, but lost some of trunk marking and cloud definition, camera settings don't let you go above 22 once below 1/125 so a little bright in the foreground, but otherwise pleased with the result.
Canon RF 100mm F2.8 L Macro IS USM mounted on the EOS R5.
Some sample portraits with the spherical aberration control.
Filename shows the position of the SA control ring.
Due to the autofocus starts to struggle a bit and is not 100% reliable when using the SA-Control, the results may not always be as sharp as possible.
Finished, Complete, I can't believe I have actually reached the end to be honest.
Yes that really is 364 photos (4x6) stuck on my wall with bluetack, we had to more the whole room about.
Before I rabble on a bit I would like to thank every single person who has looked, liked, favourited (is that a word), mentioned, commented on my photos, without you I would have stopped as a good comment does loads for encouragement and a bit for your self esteem also :).
Thank you everyone who has been in the photos, helped me setting up the photos and have dealt with me talking about the project for the last year (I'm sorry if I have bored you that was not the intention I promise, Maria mostly x)
So 365 Days or most of the time..1 Year.
I have been meticulously taking photographs on every day for the past 365 days, No "If's or But's" ..every single day I have set made sure that a shot was taken within that 24 hours period.
It's been fun, hard, frustrating, addictive, enjoyable, stressful, enlightening, educational, satisfying and rewarding, just to name a few.
I have tried my upmost to keep the pictures to a decent standard, as what I didn't want was half-assed photos and a boring set.
Originally I starting this project without much thought of the implications it has, which I came to realise soon after but I'm not one to give up, I started it to throw me in the deep end as although always enjoying taking photographs I had never owned a SLR, so in November of last year (16/11/2011) I purchased my very first digital SLR in the form of a Canon 600D with the standard kit lens (18-55mm).
I found myself enjoying photography more and more, day by day and this project has really taught me things I don't think I would have learned in this amount of time otherwise.
And after returning from honeymoon I ordered a 7D which is a great great piece of kit I would strongly recommend, nothing wrong with the 600D just more options. (5D MKIII next would be nice, I xmas is coming lol)
A warning to anybody with a new SLR or thinking about getting into photography -IT IS ADDICTIVE- I'm not sure which drug you can compare it to but I'm sure it's similar.
I have found myself since buying this camera itching for another piece of equipment, and subsequently spending all my "spare" cash on such things (fiance and now wife gives my evil eyes at such times).
This is not to say I wouldn't whole heartedly recommend getting a SLR and perhaps even doing a 365 project as it a great thing to do with your time if you have it.
Will I do another?
I doubt it, but you never know. I think I will focus on different projects rather than repeating a 365.
What's next?
More competitions, working on my website and services more and taking up other projects to keep me thinking.
I hope you have enjoyed my 365, I know I have!
If you haven't looked through some of my pics, then please have a lil browse and see what you think, favourite or comment and I will take a browse too :).
Cheers!
STROBIST:
Canon 580exii camera right with diffuser bouncing off ceiling at 1/1 power fired using YN622 triggers
Canon 430exii in westcott 28/medium softbox in front of camera left a 1/1 power fired using YN622 trigger
Also I am sitting on a PhotoSel pop up background