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Project 365 – Week 3

Kevin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:52:09 +0000

Week 3 has arrived. It is a little difficult at times getting good pictures. A few of these, I phoned in, and were not nearly as good as I would have liked. But, I did keep doing 1 picture a day.

Woods in HDR: Idaho City Woods and Stream, in HDR

Depth of Field: This was taken for a Depth of Field guide I did.

Traffic Lights: Traffic lights in the fog.

Dinner: This was made for dinner last night. Wow, it was good, and Tanya put it over-the-top with the salad on it. I also posted the recipe if you want to try and make it, yourself.

Red is Blue: This is a bit of red paint, surrounded by blue tinsel. I thought it was kind of interesting.

Mushroom Man: This miniature is painted by a good friend of mine, Dave Stinger. This is the second picture I have taken for Project 365, painted by Dave. I really do like the square format.

Arch-Nemesis: This was in our Battlestations game. That is our arch-nemesis, “Kingsford”. He is “Captain Hammer” to our Dr. Horrible. Though, we captured him this time… so maybe his light is finally extinguished.

Project 365 – Week 1

Kevin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:12:29 +0000

So, Tanya and I have decided to start on Project 365, starting on Jan 1. Today marks DAY 4. I will attempt to post my pictures weekly, on this blog.

DAY 1: The Owyhee Mountains, in HDR.

DAY 2: Artificer Miniature painted by my buddy Dave Stinger.

DAY 3: Macro of a Microphone.

Day 4: Cold sunshine through the Trees.

Photographing a miniature

Kevin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:27:13 +0000

I woke up today, with a layer of snow over everything. So, what was the first thing that came to mind? PHOTOGRAPHY! So, this one is pretty weird, I will admit. I have been wanting to photograph this miniature for a while. It was painted by a friend a few years ago. It looks very good, even after a LOT of use. I think that the shield shows off his quality amazingly well. That is all done free-hand.

So, I figured the light clouds, and all the white snow would make for VERY even lightning. It turned out right. My first pictures, put the miniature on the right side of the frame, and it really looked weird. I moved it to the left of the frame, and I really liked it. After a touch of cropping I came up with these two pictures.

My girlfriend suggested bumping the exposure a bit, and blowing out the background. That probably would have been a bit better, though, I am still very happy with these pictures.