Picture #107 - Shooting In The Rain

Well, as I said yesterday, we planned to do 2 family shoots today at Legler Barn in Lenexa. We knew there was a chance of rain, but decided to try for it anyways. We managed to get in Dionne's family despite the rain, but had to cancel our other shoot. I think in spite of the rain we still managed to get some good shots.

This shot is a location I have worked many times before, and I think all the past experience helped me to achieve more this time than in the past.

Shot spex: RAW Image, Pentax K10D, ISO 800, 68mm, f11, 1/90sec., flash dialed to 1/16th.

PhotoShop spex: Smart Sharpened (as always) a little, adjusted Levels and Contrast just a little bit. The bridge is very green so I created a second layer and desaturated that layer and added a Sepia filter to it. Then I blended the color layer with it.

Tunes listened to while editing: This was a 2 album day! I listened to Anberlin - Lost Songs and Diffuser - Injury Loves Melody. Great picture editing music!

Picture #106 - A Walk In The Park

I know it has been a couple weeks (or longer) since I last posted. To be quite honest, I never fully appreciated how hard it would be to shoot, edit and post a new picture every single day. I found myself doing all three aspects of this project at midnight most nights and this really was counter productive to the goal of the project. Well, enough of that. I will change the title to something else, and plan to post at minimum, several times a week, but doubt I will go back to a picture every day. Now to get on to what we did today.

I have been helping my Dad with a digital Photography class and next Saturday we have a field trip planned. We were planning to sit the fall leave just right. My Dad compared current conditions to last year and fears that the fall leaves may not be as good next weekend as they are right now. To that end, he sent out an e-mail to the class encouraging everyone to get out and do some shooting before next weekend (at least if they wanted nice fall leaves in their images). Well, I decided to heed his advice. Additionally we have two family shoots tomorrow (if the rain holds off) and I wanted to get some practice in while scouting the location. I felt pretty good about the end results enough that I wanted to share them. If you are on Facebook (I'm open to the entire world!), feel free to view my album for the entire shoot. Otherwise enjoy what I've shared above. Additionally, if you want to take full advantage of the beautiful fall color out there, go shooting tomorrow! Just don't get in my way! I got work to do!

Shot spex: RAW Image, Pentax K10D, ISO 200, 118mm, f11, 1/90sec., flash dialed to 1/16th.

PhotoShop spex: Smart Sharpened (as always) a little, adjusted Levels and Contrast just a little bit.

Tunes listened to while editing: Dovetail Joint - E.P. for the Underclass. All 5 tracks. Great disc! Too bad they broke up!