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.

365/114 Shadows/7

This following photo required a little more advanced light, because obviously the difference between sunlight and its shadows is too great to be captured by most digital cameras. I used a little fill flash to throw some light into the shadow areas and then did some burning and dodging in PS to restore the contrast from the original scene.

Lens and camera settings:
50mm f/2.0 @ f/4.0, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Flash at 1/16th power (manual mode).

365/107 Framing/7

Kiddo gets to be my subject one last time this week! Yes, I know she has a finger chop on both sides of the photo and she's dead center. It's the last photo of the week and I really didn't feel like fighting with her to get a "great" shot when this works just fine.


Lens and camera settings:
50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/160sec and ISO 400.

365/106 Framing/6

I'm not sure if this works, but I made a promise to give it a try, so here it is:


Lens and camera settings:
50mm f/2.0 @ f/8.0, 1/250 and ISO 400. OCF camera left, bounced off colored card.

365/105 Framing/5

Not sure if this is walking a gray line with money laundering laws, and if someone has any idea if it is, please let me know and I'll take it down. I just found this very fitting to the theme!


Lens and camera settings:
50mm f/2.0 @ f/11, 1/250sec and ISO 100. Flash @ 0EV compensation, on camera.

365/104 Framing/4

A trip to the rose garden today! I discovered something new, something a little more on the bad news side of things. The 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 does not like backlit subjects. More precisely, it creates a lot of haze and flare when you're photographing backlit or partially backlit subjects. A lot could be fixed in post processing, but I'm a little disappointed. I guess that's what I get though, for trying to save money by getting the cheaper lens! Next time I'll just have to use the 50mm for backlit portraits.


Lens and camera settings:
14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 @ 27mm, f/3.0, 1/125sec and ISO 100.

365/103 Framing/3

Shooting creatures in their natural habitat would keep them at ease right? Yeah, that's what I thought too, but apparently that doesn't apply to 4 year old girls. She hides in this hamper all the time, so I figured it'd make a good frame, which it does, but she didn't seem to be too entertained by the idea.

I converted this to B&W because there simply was no helping the bright pink and orange color casts, well nothing I could do in a reasonable amount of time anyway.

Lens and camera settings:

14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 @ 25mm, f2.9, 1/100sec and ISO 800.

365/102 Framing/2

My little one has to be my all time favorite subject! She finally smiled with a natural smile, and I finally got a tack sharp shot!


Olympus might not be the best at some stuff, but they absolutely rock at colors. And I mean rock, as in when Queen used to be the all-time greatest rock band type rock. The following was taken with the following in-camera color settings: 5400K white balance, Vivid color tone and sharpness set to -2 and contrast to -1. Underexposed by 0.6 stop to preserve skin highlights and pushed back up to +0.6EV in Oly processing.


Lens and camera settings:
50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/125sec and ISO 200.

365/101 Framing/1

A B&W silhouette today! Color didn't add much, but I think the B&W really tells a story. Sometimes, B&W is really just the way to go.


Lens and camera settings:
50mm f/2.0 @ f/2.0, 1/1000sec and ISO 100.