Capture Your 365 Blog Hop

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Suzanne

Today, a number of the photographers who are participating in the Capture Your 365 project are taking part in a Blog Hop! When you get to the bottom of my post, you’ll see the list of everyone that is participating, so you can take a stroll through the whole list and see what other people are doing with this project.

In preparation for my post, I spent a goodly portion of my Sunday afternoon getting caught up on sorting out photos and uploading them to various places. I was supposed to be doing taxes, but this is much more fun, as you can well imagine.

It’s a little hard to believe that we have already reached the beginning of April. I’m really proud of myself for keeping up with this project. Credit for that goes to two things: one, is participating in the community at Capture Your 365 — I’m learning a lot from the site, plus it helps to get such great feedback from everyone on my pictures, as well as to see glimpses of other people’s lives. I keep seeing beaches and it makes me jealous…

The other reason for success is the “rules” or lack thereof…that I’ve established for this project.

…try to take a picture every day.
…try to tell a story about my family and our lives with each picture.
…try to learn more about my camera.
…try to use the inspiration prompts from Katrina at Capture Your 365

DON’T

…worry if I don’t take a photo every day.
…worry if none of the pictures are technically perfect, they still tell a story.
…worry if I never use any of the inspiration prompts.

I’ve included a few of my favorites from the past 3 months, but you can see the rest of my story here: Daily Photo Project (a gallery on my blog) or here: 2012 Daily Photos (all of my daily photos on Flickr).

And now, I will send you on your way to the rest of the blog hop! Thanks for stopping by, I’d love to hear from you!

Kelly - but for the Grace of God
Joscelyne - ohscrap
You are here –> Suzanne - Suzanne’s Adventures in Quilting, Photography, Computers and Life
Go here next –> Sharyn - Live from Tormville
Abbie - Happie by Abbie
Janine - The Sweetest Dreams
Kathleen - Taking Pictures, Enjoying Life
Katrina - Capture Your 365

Is this thing on?

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Suzanne

Whoa. It’s like the entire month of March didn’t exist as far as the ole blog is concerned. Let’s see…I was sick, I went on vacation, school is ridiculously busy…Cocoa ran in to Mark’s truck…

(Luckily, she seems to be recovering just fine…dumb dog…)

And now it’s April. A.P.R.I.L. As of Friday, the seniors had just 34 more days of school, which means that I have to figure out how to finish planning for graduation (holy buckets!)

Joe in Black and White

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Suzanne

Today’s photo is of Joe (well, and of Will too, but he’s all blurry in the background…)

He’s a pretty good looking kid, isn’t he? I was amazed that he let me take his picture, and he just looked at me…sort of…naturally! No goofy faces, no cheesy smiles, no frowns…

This isn’t where the picture started, though. Straight out of camera it looked like this:

I was resting the camera on the back of the couch, and didn’t realize that the couch cushion was in the way.

I cropped it, and this is better:

But the color is obviously off, those blinds in the back are WHITE, not yellow!

So, we click on the trusty eyedropper in Adobe Lightroom and voila:

Well, crap. The color is “correct” — but now Joe’s face is BLUE — thanks to the fact that he is actually being lit by his computer laptop screen. Now, if the screen were in the shot, I might be inclined to go with it, since it would tell a story about Joe being at his computer, etc, but since you can’t see the computer…he just looks…wrong…

So: time to play with the black and white conversion. This is definitely a subjective process, but I’m pretty happy with how this looks:

Like I said: good-looking kid! And there’s another one just like him. (Sort of…LOL)