Starving Artistry

Some More Pics

// November 30th, 2009 // Photo

Well, I was writing this fancy post about music and stuff, and I even recorded a new video, but YouTube is being stupid so I’ll probably have to wait to upload it until tomorrow. It’s interesting though!

Anyway, so I’ve shot some more pictures and I thought I would upload a few to share. They’re from Thanksgiving weekend, both the actual night, and the Saturday after when I went out for a walk while it was actually sunny. I actually wish I had started earlier so I would have had more sunlight. Clicking on any of these photos will take you to my Picasa page, where you can then look at the original size if you’d like to see more detail.

Anyway, so here’s a photo of my Dad singing in the Beatles rockband. It was a dimly lit room, so I’m fairly certain it was shot at f/2.8 (but I can’t really remember). It’s fairly in focus considering the circumstances, and I like the bokeh in it, so that’s why I’m uploading it.

Here’s Gretch mock-eating the turkey. I again like the blurry background. I also like that everything seems perfectly centered. You can see the two sides of the kitchen framing her and the turkey pretty well. Still learning about centering and composition, but this is decent IMO.

So anyway, fast forward to Saturday. Went out for coffee first. I ordered the seasonal Peppermint mocha. It was quite delicious. So delicious that I had to take a picture of it.

And another. The coffee cup is meant to be the object in focus. I dunno, do you think it works? Maybe because it’s so off center it doesn’t really make sense.

I liked this shot because it came out so sharp. I’m pretty sure it was set to f/5.6 or something like that. Having the sun so bright probably helped, I bet I bumped up that shutter speed to a point where there was no chance of any blurriness. At least that’s what I’m thinking. Who knows, I sure don’t.

So this was… cotton seeds? I dunno, something like that? Along the bike trail in Falls Church. I actually like the video I shot better, but it’s pretty clear. You can tell I was losing daylight by this point.

Another try at interesting composition. I like that it seems pretty sharp, but you can see some strange chromatic abberation in the lower right hand corner. Whattup with that Canon??

Anyway, I’m looking forward to Evan and my photography date. Hopefully we’ll find somewhere to go. Maybe Troy will want to come too, and we can share lenses.