Friends With DSLRs: April 2011

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 :(