Friends With DSLRs: 2011

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Anyone got the bug?

I know it's been a while since we have shot and shared but I am feeling inspired with all the change of season. Beautiful colors are all around and if your all up for it maybe share a photo of what fall means to you or why you like it or just something appreciative for this season. There's no dead line just whenever you find your inspiration.

Thanks,
Roxana

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Week 1 - Mother (catch up)

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Week 5 - Looking In

One of my favorite shots so far. My buddy Aaron and I dusted off our paintball gear and went paintballing at Camp Pendleton today. In preparing my gear inspiration hit, and it turned out better than expected.

My first idea was to take a photo down the barrel of my gun, which came out crappy as in that perspective you have no idea what your looking down. Then the idea was to "look in" to my googles. So I setup a tripod and staged a self portrait.

If you look real hard, you can see my eye through the googles, click the photo for a higher resolution photo, its awesome!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Looking In

Week 5 ~ Looking In

f/5.6, ISO 400, 1/25

Looking into the garage at that ole red Mustang.

I really couldn't 'feel' this weeks assignment. I was feeling like a stalker whenever I thought about looking in. I don't really know why...

But then I was walking around the house to get a dog toy and I saw this. So I continued through the garage and into the house to grab the camera to take the shot.

UP!

f/5.6 ISO800 1/320

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Week 4 - Temptation

A few weeks ago my sister had me watch her dog, which was a mistake because it ate all the treats and was throwing up when Nicole came to pick her up. To kill some time, I decided to share the gloriousness that is "Dexter"

The "temptation" part of this is that you cant just watch one episode of dexter. I am all caught up with all five seasons of Dexter, and it took all the effort in the world to not start all over from the beginning and rewatch.

On a photography side of things, I realized it is near impossible to take a good photo of something on TV. I must have took dozens of photos and nothing really compared to like a screenshot on a computer.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Up!

Week 2: Up

'Up Atop The Parking Structure!'

f6.1, 1/30, ISO 400

For the Up picture this week I really wanted to get a shot of the skydivers by my building at work. So why isn't this a skydiver picture? Because they didn't dive at all this week. Fantastic. So we took the Mustang to the top of the parking structure at the mall in Temecula.

This shot was taken moments before the mall security came to us and said we had to stop taking pictures. Apparently you aren't allowed to take pictures on mall property, who knew?! So we packed up and went home.

PS- I may still get a sky diver shot at some point and post it.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Week 2 - Up

The other day I visited the Temecula Convention and Visitor's Bureau and noticed they have an amazing ceiling. What a genius idea to get tiles printed and use on the ceiling. Gives me the idea to get some famous art printed and put it in my kitchen ceiling.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Mother

Liam's gift to mom on her first mother's day.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mother

Silly Mom - F/5, 1/15, ISO 200

My 4 year old niece is convinced that she is my dogs mother, and today was her Mothers Day. This is her with her furry four legged baby :) I love that he is looking at the camera like "help me!"

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Project 52

We hope that you enjoyed our 30 Day Photo Challenge!

Personally, I was sad that our project was done. I wanted to keep doing something like this.

So I googled and found a few more differently themed 30 Day Challenges but I didn't want to do another 30 day one for two reasons: 1~ Sometimes life just gets in the way of you being able to take and/or post your picture. 2~ once some people got too far behind it was simply too daunting to try and catch up. I didn't want either of those things to happen again.

I continued my Google search of something that we could do. And then I found it!!

Project 52 It is a weekly themed picture post! Perfect!

Now normally this project would start January 1st but we are just going to start on it this Monday, May 2nd.

Here is our schedule:

May 02-Mother
May 09-Up
May 16-Anger
May 23-Temptation
May 30-Looking in
Jun 06-Party
Jun 13-Father
Jun 20-Swing
Jun 27-Lighting Experimentation
Jul 04-Red, White, Blue
Jul 11-Family
Jul 18-Summer/Winter
Jul 25-Time
Aug 01-Water
Aug 08-Shadows
Aug 15-Peace
Aug 22-Defeat
Aug 29-Sunset
Sep 05-Spice
Sep 12-The Kitchen
Sep 19-Autumn/Spring
Sep 26-Tools
Oct 03-Colors
Oct 10-My Neighbors
Oct 17-On The Shelf
Oct 24-Memories
Oct 31-Texture
Nov 07-Wind
Nov 14-Music
Nov 21-Gathering
Nov 28-Beyond Reach
Dec 05-Smiles
Dec 12-After
Dec 19-Winter/Summer
Dec 26-Oldness
Jan 01-Newness
Jan 09-Breakfast
Jan 16-Macro
Jan 23-Tired
Jan 30-Sleep
Feb 06-Body Parts
Feb 13-Romance
Feb 20-Spirit
Feb 27-Vegetables
Mar 05-Underneath
Mar 12Spring/Autumn
Mar 19-Planning
Mar 26-Fools
Apr 02-Excitement
Apr 09-Work
Apr 16-Growth
Apr 23-Trees

One whole year of picture posting!! I can't wait!!

Our 'week' will be Monday - Sunday. So each Monday will start the new week of each theme.

Now for this project we are going to shake things up a bit as far as our posting style goes: For each weeks theme each person is going to have their own post. This is so we can either tell a little story about how we got our picture, how we came up for the idea, if we want to post multiple pictures, how we edited it...anything we want really.

Also, we made all of our labels search-able (thanks Jon Hall!). So if you want to see any posts by a certain person, or a certain week, or by challenge you can simply clink on that label and it will bring them up for you!

I hope that you will enjoy this upcoming project as much as we will!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Day 30 - Storyboard (Last Day!!!)

Jonathan Hall - Public Speaking

Tara Johnson, Yarn happens...

Monday, April 18, 2011

Day 29 - Streetlights

Jonathan Hall - "Custom Sodium Balance" - f/5.6 68 seconds. Custom White Balanced the yellow sodium streetlight.

Tara Johnson, Streetlight of Excitement! f/9.0, 20" exposure, ISO 100

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Day 28 - Trees

Jonathan Hall - Trees - f/5.6 1/640

Roxana. "Trees" f/6.3 ISO 400 1/160

Tara Johnson, Oak Tree, f/5.6, 1/1000, ISO 400

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Day 27 - Flowers

Jonathan Hall - "Backyard full of weeds" f/5.6 1/500 ISO100

Roxana Lopez "Flowers" f/6.3 ISO 200 1/400

Tara Johnson, Flowers of the Hills, f/5.6, 1/1250, ISO 400

Katie J. "Desert Flower" f/5.3, 1/160, ISO 400

Friday, April 15, 2011

Day 26 - Panning

Jonathan Hall - Go Speed Racer! f/25 1/60

I like my other photo better, but it wasn't as clear as the one above.

Tara Johnson, Sad, Sad, Sad attempt at Panning...

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Day 25 - SOOC and Favorite Edit

Jonathan Hall
My favorite edit was the Auto Mall sign I shot for the Technology Day. Shooting over 50 photos over an hour I chose this one as my best SOOC(straight out of camera) photo. I then proceeded to us Adobe Lightroom to enhance my RAW photo in four ways:

Enhanced saturation the sunset to match what I saw IRL.
Enhanced the yellows to be more vibrant.
Used the tool to underexpose the center of the screen to show the logo.
Used the tool to overexpose the grass on the hill to give the illusion the light was spilling onto the ground to show the poppies.


Roxana "Favorite Edits" BEFORE f/2 ISO 100 1/3200

I love to add vignetting to my photos and saturation to the colors as well.

Those are my two favorite edits.

Tara Johnson, Favorite Edit: Technology. I just love the way this pic came out. I did what I always do to mine, adjust the curves balance, saturation and sharpen edges. I, unfortunately, don't have the original of this photo anymore, it accidentally got erased :(