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YAY Christmas lights are going up all over the city and everyone is starting to get into the Christmas spirit. I made a star filter for my 50mm and shot the lights on our balcony through the glass. I love doing this, so fun! Happy Bokeh Wednesday!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! I'm freeeeeeeeeee!! I did it!! I can't believe I have finished my 365 project. I am filled with so many emotions; happiness, relief, sadness, pride, success, awe, amazement. It's been a long year, and I have found this project such a struggle at times. I've had days when I really could not be bothered one little bit, and other days when I just had so many photos I couldn't choose (hence why I actually have more than 365 photos)!
I started this project last July, when I got into photography. I always enjoyed taking photos, but didn't realise how much I LOVED taking photos, and suddenly this new passion was unleashed. I got my first DSLR on my birthday on July 5th and haven't looked back since. I can't believe how taking a photo every day had changed the way I look at photography so much. My previous experience with photo taking was: compact on auto, aim, and shoot! My ideas have changed, my creativity has grown (I didn't have any to start with!). My camera skills were poor. I still have so much to learn, but I feel so much achievement looking back on my earlier photos which (let's be honest) are pretty rubbish!! And although most of my photos aren't brilliant, there are one or two that I am so totally proud of, and demonstrate to me that I do know what I'm doing most of the time.
It would have been nice to have a collection of completely amazing photos, but a) I'm not good enough yet for that, and b) sometimes it's more about what the photo says rather than the skill of it. I have enjoyed capturing my everyday life with my two gorgeous daughters. I will look back on these photos with fondness.
Doing a 365 project is all-consuming. I wouldn't be able to relax unless I knew I had my PAD for the day. My camera literally came everywhere with me, as if carrying two small children around, a huge changing bag and buggy wasn't enough to lug around with me, the camera had to come too. Driving home from somewhere with family in the car, thinking 'oooh this would be a perfect PAD would you mind honey just pulling over while I pop out'? Meanwhile two moany children and grumpy husband in the car because we're missing dinner. It took up my evenings- having to scroll through the photos I took that day to choose which one would be 'good enough' to go online for all to view and judge. Not that I have that many followers. Asking David, this one? Or this one? You sure? I think I prefer this one.... or what about this one?! I'm surprised he didn't throw my camera out of the window!
I couldn't have done this without my family. They are my inspiration. They are the ones who ignited my joy in photography. And I really wouldn't be here without David. On those days when I really, truly, did not want to take a photo or was just out of ideas at 10 at night he would help me create something. I probably would have only reached day 100 if he hadn't helped me. Through days of sickness, tiredness, joy, sadness, it's all there.
This project has given me a new lease on life, it has helped me find my joy and has allowed me to start my own photography business last September which has gathered a lot of interest, and I am still amazed by all the shoots I have done for someone with no prior knowledge or training. It really does go to show if you have a passion for something, anything is achievable. I hope in 5 years time to be totally amazing at what I do!
I will definitely do another 365 project one day... but not for awhile. I am looking forward to making a book of this project so I have something to keep and show my family, but mostly I am looking forward to having my evenings back and relaxing for a bit!
It has really been a tough week! On the sixteenth, my Dad got hit by a car and knocked to the ground along with another pedestrian. On the twenty-first, he turned ninety. I'm happy to say he was around to celebrate his birthday, although in some pain. He has a fractured elbow, fractured pelvis and deep bruising to his hip. Today he was exercising, doing leg lifts with both legs and curls with his good arm. We discontinued 24 hour care today, and he is going to have help six hours a day, with me popping over several times a day. You just can't keep him down!
I have had so much fun with my Lensbaby class! This star aperture is so cool, but it especially shines when used in a much more subtle manner than the effect it has in this photo. I like the weeds in the bottom left.
Lensbaby Magic, Lesson 3 submission
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I'm a little behind posting my 365 photos this week. It's been a very hectic one!
Anyway, this is my 365 photo that i took on my birthday on Tuesday. I'll catch up over the weekend on all of your amazing photos and i'll get up to date with posting mine too.
Have a fab one this weekend whatever you're doing. :)
I had a really weird dream about falling in my back yard. This may be the first jumping picture I have put on flickr, but I have definitely tried to before - the self timer is hard to get down, i got a lot of shots with me just leaving the ground, or just coming back down.
this is a compilation of around 37 images, although i took over 150 pictures to get everything i needed.
I used a rapid moving flashlight to illuminate the poppies with a long exposure.
I made a custom aperture for the stars, and attached it to my 50mm prime lens.
I used my lame-o kit lens to get me.
An index card and some painter's tape.
I cut the index card down to a perfect square bigger than the hood I was going to attach it to. I located the center of the card by drawing lines between the opposite corners with a ruler to make an X. I made a circle of markings each 1cm from the center; this means that my shape could be a maximum of 2cm across. I chose 2cm because I was using the 50mm prime lens set at f2, which would mean my shape would have to be smaller than 25mm, but the card was mounted on a hood farther away from the lens so I reduced it to 20mm (2cm) just to be safe. Then, I sketched a star inside the 2cm circle and cut it out with the vague equivalent of an x-acto knife. Some eyeballed positioning and a bit of painter's tape (to be sure I didn't hurt my mom's camera gear) and I had a crude star bokeh setup!
A trio of pretty white and silver vintage bottle brush trees sitting in a white cloud surrounded by star shaped bokeh taken with my lensbaby
Took this on Saturday night when me and Sean went down to the boat launch.
Last summer, I went down to the dock and you could see an INSANE amount of stars because there was no moon out. The idea of getting star shots didn't even occur to me, I just sat and stared because I rarely get to see that because of all the light pollution in Louisville. This year, however, I made sure I had my tripod and cable release because I wanted some insanely epic star shots. Unfortunately, we timed our trip to where we had a big, beautiful full moon both nights, so I couldn't get exactly what I wanted, but I made the most of it.
This was shot wide open with my new Rokinon 35mm 1.4. I knew I wanted to get the stars to show as bokeh and I wanted to get as long a trail as possible, but I could only get a little over a minute with the full moon out. I took another one that lasted about 6 minutes, but I had to stop the lens down so the trails pretty much looked like most other star trails...not very bokeh-esque. I think next time I'll have to invest in a 3ish stop ND filter.
Day 58 - Friday, March 21st. Marin performing with The Edge at Jam Fest at the Civic Space Park in Downtown Phoenix. Part of Rock and Roll High School, a project that puts high school kids into bands and sets up concerts all around Arizona. If you look closely, you might be able to see star shapes in the blurry areas since I used my Petzval lens with the star aperture.
An experiment with water, colours and star bokeh for the Canon Photo5 competition Bokeh brief.
(Edit: This is a stream of water falling from the right, hitting the edge of a disc and spraying down to another level below)
I took my star bokeh hood for a walk last night and got the traffic lights!
Star bokeh setup explained here.