Day 207 – Working on depth of field

New portraits of Jezebel. I increased the depth of field and these seem to work.

Day 206 – Reflected Silhouette

Our neighbor’s trees at sunset reflected in my car’s windows.

Day 205 – Puppy Portraits

Today was an incredibly busy day. I didn’t stop from 6am until I got home at about 10pm, so I turned to my critters for inspiration tonight. I set up the Speedlite, grabbed a reflector card and got Nina to “sit” on her blanket. She did good.

All were shot at 400 ISO, f/5.6, 1/15 sec. Speedlite behind me to camera left, reflector card (white poster board in the vise) very close to Nina on the right and just out of frame.

Day 204 – She’s just so willing!

I love working with very shallow depth of field and when a shot comes out exactly as I planned, well, I just have to share it. I really had hoped to post a non-critter post, but today I set up my soft box light, Maya was on the printer, and I couldn’t resist. She is looking up at the soft box which I had just to camera left and about six feet up and angled down toward Maya. I metered the shot, snapped my fingers so she’d look up, and bingo! Got it! Also, I used the pop-up on my camera at its lowest output (1/128) to provide just a teeny bit of fill.

And, of course, I couldn’t resist a black and white shot.

Day 203 – f/2.5

I’ve been busy all day working on the photos that I took at The Amaz!ng Meeting, and tending to chores around the house, so I haven’t had as much time to get creative as I would have liked. However, I’d popped my 50mm lens on my camera yesterday, so I though I’d keep it on while shooting today. Maya proved a semi-willing subject. I shot this with very shallow depth of field.