365/130 Hometown/2

Finally some sun today! My wife really liked this view, so I decided to snap a photo of it.

Lens and camera settings:
14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II @ 17mm, f/13, 1/100sec and ISO 100.


Again, landscapes are best viewed much larger than 500 pixels wide.

365/124 Affection/3

It's only right to make my favorite subjects, closest to my heart, part of this theme! Today I experimented with Lightroom, to see if I can get away with not using Photoshop at all for processing. Close, but no cigar. Fair is fair, all of the actual post processing was done in Lightroom, but then I still needed my 20 pixel frame with 2 pixel white border and my logo to be included, which ironically I needed Photoshop for. If anyone wants to enlighten me to the path of freedom by showing me how to do those simple things in Lightroom, I'd forever appreciate it!

Lens and camera settings:

14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II @ 27mm, f/3.0, 1/100sec and ISO 100.

Not bad at all, especially not with the colors! A little oversharpened, I must admit, probably because in PS I ended up resizing the photo after adding the frame, and then I accidentally resharpened, and I was too lazy to reprocess.

365/79 Perspective/7

Hmmm spring time! It's beautiful out, and the light is fantastic today! Sure I had a few bad shots (don't shoot in the direction of the sun if you want the blue sky to actually be in your photo) and not everything was "photo" worthy (snapshots), but I this this one is pretty good! I would have liked to have been a little more to the right to completely leave the shoreline on the left side out, but I wasn't about to test how well my camera body and lens are weather sealed just yet. The shore does work, somewhat, as a leading line.

I ended up cloning some tree branches out of the top left of the photo, because they distracted a lot.

Lens and camera settings:

14-54 mm f/2.8-3.5 II @ 14mm, f/8.0, 1/200sec and ISO 100. (I think this is my new favorite lens)

Flickr sharpening anyone? would you like some photo with your sharpening? I mean really? It's not often this bad. I think I'm just going to stop sharpening my photos from now on, flickr's sharpening really ruins an already properly sharpened photo.

365/78 Perspective/6

I was in a photo mood when I got home, so here it is!

Lens and camera settings:

14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 @ 14mm, f/2.8, 1/250sec and ISO 100.

365/77 Perspective/5

Wide angle! I got my 14-54mm II f/2.8-3.5 today, and this lens is a true gem! For $500-ish, you get an unbeatable optic, especially for the price! So far I noticed just a touch distortion at the wide end (14mm, or 28mm full-frame equivalent), and by a touch, I mean it's only noticeable if you know where to look, and it's really minimal. In everyday photography, I doubt it's visible, and if it is, it's very easy to correct.

Oh yeah, did I mention it's weather sealed? And it's said that the 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 SWD is really fast with AF, but the difference between this lens and my kit lens or my 50mm is so big, that it'll be a while before I get frustrated with the AF speed of this lens.

Ok, back to 365. Just a snap of my little one, to test the 14mm angle on.

Lens and camera settings:

14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 @ 14mm, f/2.8, 1/100sec and ISO 800.

365/76 Perspective/4

Imagine being a small animal with exoskeleton (insect, arachnid, take your pick), walking down a driveway in upstate NY. I'm pretty sure this is one of the views you could have!

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/8.0, 1/10sec and ISO 400.

Perspective, day 3 retake.

After being embarrassed enough about posting the previous photo to ILP, I decided to try something different. One desk lamp and a sleeping cat later, here's the result: A sleeping cat from the perspective of a cat just waking up.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/25sec (IS on) and ISO 1600. Light by mainly a small desk lamp just overhead.

365/75 Perspective/3

Not sure why, but I'm a little uninspired today. This photo does adhere to the theme, but I'm not in love with it.

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/5.6, 1/400sec and ISO 100.

365/74 Perspective/2

My daughter has this crazy obsession with dinosaurs, and I felt they'd make a great subject one of these weeks. Maybe this week is that week!

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/250sec and ISO 200. Sun, ehm, flash bounced into umbrella, behind camera right @ 1/4th power.

365/73 Perspective/1

I personally love the bokeh of what was the subject of today's theme. This week will not just make me think outside the box, the box will actually be thrown out. I love it!

Lens and camera settings:

50mm f/2.0 @ f/4.0, 1/250, ISO 400. Flash bounced off the ceiling @ +2EV compensation.