Uploads from enveehaze, tagged 52weeksthe2012edition

Look Me in the Eye

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:06:47 -0700

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I was challenged by rafartreides2009 in a "Rolling Get Pushed" as follows:
"either make a self portrait or portrait for my group "stand straight" read the rules first, or make a black and white picture of anything, but let's see some detail ! or you could do both or combine both of course"

Check out his great photostream here: www.flickr.com/photos/rafdegeest2009/
He does alot of self portraiture - very interesting stuff!

I have never done self portraits before except the cheesy holding the iphone backwards kind. Those never look right for some reason... Anyway - I set up the tripod and the self timer, aimed a little light in my general direction and made some faces at the camera. Afterwards I cropped them (severely) and played with the processing options in Picasa. I really am not a fan of being photographed and I dreaded doing this. However - I am very happy with the results. You can see a few other shots I took in my new selfies set - www.flickr.com/photos/enveearts/sets/72157631492205744/

Week 37 of the 52 Week Project

Cat Nap

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:50:54 -0700

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Week 36 of the 52 week project

Casper crawled into my Daughter's blanket (which she left on the living room floor).

Bicycle

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:08:56 -0700

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Taken at the opening of an abandoned turnpike tunnel in Pennsylvania which is open to the public for biking and hiking.

Still Life for 52 Week Project. week 33

Ringing in the New Year

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:21:47 -0800

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The end of one year and the beginning of the next.

Spring Loaded

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:50:34 -0800

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365 Days in Colour - 17/31 silver. A spring on my desk lamp.

52 week project - week 51 - theme bokeh - a little bit in the foreground.

Sunny Day Selfie

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:26:36 -0800

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Get Pushed Challenge. Some_stuff challenged me "to make a selfie my dear, but you have to show a huge expression in your face"

with the celestial theme, I thought this also fit right in the the MSH for "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me"

52 week project - week 50 theme - selfie. That was fortuitous! Sorry I got a bit behind in posting these. The holiday has been hectic - 7 visitors staying at our house in addition to the usual 4!

Silver Bow

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:32:11 -0800

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365 Days in Colour - 5/31 silver. A giant silver decor bow at the store.
52 week project - week 49 - texture

Looks best on black, so press L and check it out.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:22:04 -0800

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Decorative stick on mirror things on my powder room wall.

Orange Topper

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:02:05 -0800

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365 Days in Colour - 23/30 orange. Scanning Mom's house for orange & found this lovely bottle of wine! Maybe we should drink it for dinner?

Fancy Fabrics

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:18:26 -0800

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365 Days in Colour - 17/30 orange. I was at the fabric store today, looking for fleece and stopped to admire this display.

Colors of Nature

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:12:14 -0800

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52 Week Project - week 45 - Colors of Nature Theme.
I took these photos at Longwood Gardens on Saturday Nov. 10 using the selective color mode on my camera. I made the mosaic on Monday.

Small Business

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:07:20 -0700

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52 Week Project - week theme - panorama

This was taken using the panorama function on my iPhone. I had a table at a local craft fair this morning and decided to finally do my panorama, since the whole table wouldn't fit in a standard shot. My son loves going to these craft fairs with me to help set up. That's him relaxing behind the table, looking pleased with himself.

double checking for the mosaic & discovered I never added this to the group... oops

Creepy

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:00:04 -0700

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These characters were part of a float in the Sea Witch Festival at Rehobeth Beach. I cropped out the bottom parts of the float and then had some fun processing in PicMonkey.

Centrifugal

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:40:29 -0700

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52 week project - week 42 theme The Blur
"As photographers, we try so hard to get our images sharp. Achieve the perfect focus.

What if we stop caring this week? What if we strive to capture an image that is deliberately out of focus? Or part of it is sharp and part of it is vibrating? Someone is moving through an otherwise static scene? Or turn off auto focus and take an impressionistic landscape? As you can see, this theme is pretty open."

For the blur, I decided to see what would happen if I twisted my camera in a circular motion instead of panning up/down or side/side. The tree shots were not nearly as effective as the mum bush shots, in which I looked down from above while shooting.

Mad Dash

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:08:15 -0700

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52 Week Project - week 41 theme - Dutch Tilt

This was fun fro me and the kids! I had them run at me as fast as they could while I took angled pictures. I really like this one - my son was concentrating, as evidenced by his tongue sticking out! He was almost too fast, as he practically ran out of frame on this one!

In processing, I boosted the color a bit, added some zoominess and a frame.

Fall Abstract

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:24:33 -0700

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52 Week Project - week 40 - theme, Abstract

Macro of my stack of halloween napkins, taken at an angle :-)

Hooded

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:52:35 -0700

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52 Week Project - week 39 - theme "Break the Rules"

I always look through the viewfinder or screen at what I am shooting - as you are supposed to... This time I just pointed the camera in my son's general direction and snapped. Shooting from the hip - sort of. I tried it on my husband previously, but the result was ... blah. I couldn't believe how great this turned out. I couldn't have framed it better if I had tried - because I probably would not have cut out any of the hoodie for one thing. I did not crop this at all on the computer, I just adjusted the lighting a tad. I think this is destined to be a long time favorite picture of my son. His smile is real instead of the forced fakish ones I usually get from him when I say I want to take a picture!

Peripheral Action

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:47:55 -0700

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Taken at my son's soccer game

Leave me Alone!

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:20:56 -0700

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52 week project - week 35 - theme "Low Key"

A new thing for me. Since I did Ochi for the subjewct of my high key picture last week, I decided to get her again this week. My kids helped by bringing in cat toys to keep her attention and to keep her from wandering off. I don't have any studio equipment, so this was taken in a room with the blinds closed. Light from the hall was coming in on the left. She was sitting on a dark colored chair. I did some tweeking in Picasa and changed it to black and white as well.

Ochi

nobody@flickr.com (enveehaze) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:08:34 -0700

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52 Week Project - high key theme - 34/52

I've never tried high key before - I didn't even know what it was really. So I watched some uTube videos and looked at some examples. I don't have any lighting equipment, other than the built in flash on my Sony DSLR, so I shined some LED flashlights on the wall behind the cat and took a couple pictures. She didn't wait around for me to get my flash turned on, so this was without a flash even. Can you tell she wasn't thrilled to be disturbed from her nap? Anyway - I've obviously played with the light levels on the computer to make the photo really high key. The original shot wasn't too bad, but this is better, I think. I will definately try more with this technique now that I've learned a little bit about it. My kids will have to pose for me next time!