Aperture Priority

In honor of Jen's continuing photo week series exploring camera settings, here's my aperture priority shoot. This weekend we journeyed to Bloomington, IL and did some rock climbing in the silos at Upper Limits. It was a lot of fun, but super tough to get a decent shot in the low light conditions without using a flash.

Looking back I can't believe that I didn't have the presence of thought to increase my ISO. I probably would have ended up with a very different shoot. Oh well, as it stands I ended up with some pretty dramatic looking photos because it forced me to wait for my subject to enter the harsh yellow ring of light that was cast on the side of the silo or else deal with some wicked motion blur. I didn't mind the motion blur in all of the shots, though, it added a bit of excitement.

I used my 50 1.8 lens primarily because my adjustable lens simply wasn't fast enough. I would have really liked to use a wider angle, but again, it forced me to consider the best composition I could get within the limitations of my view. Thanks for hosting another photo week challenge, Jen! It was fun!

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Wednesday Desktop Background Freebie

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Who doesn't love free things!? I personally like to change my desktop backgrounds often. Sometimes I make my own, other times I really like having another artists work to look at.

A week or so ago, I was playing around with the photo that I used in the processing tutorial and created a simple desktop background with it. I got to thinking that if I love free high-quality desktop backgrounds made by other artists, maybe I should contribute one of my own to the community. So here it is! Take it if you want it! Totally on the house.

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Sue's Series Photo Weekend Challenge

I know that sledding is total copycat of Steph and Scott, but this series was too fun not to share. :D Thanks for heading up the photo challenge this weekend Sue!

(Click the 'All Sizes' button above the photo on my Flickr page to see it big)

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Vintage Ribbon Camera Strap

It's been a long time coming! I posted about this pretty ribbon and my desire to add it to my camera strap months ago, but with my sewing machine on the fritz, and Christmas presents to make I hadn't gotten around to it. This weekend, though, Steph was kind enough to allow me to borrow some pieces of black fabric for the sleeve and her sewing machine to finally put this together. I'm so thrilled to finally have my custom strap complete! Thanks Steph, you make dreams come true!!!

Now I just need to figure out what I've done to make my sewing machine behave so badly and I can finish up other 1/2 done sewing projects. :) (see #1 on the list, sewing bag, you're next!)

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