Day 105 – Antonn

My eyes are very tired from two days of photography, and I’ve still got a lot of photographs to go through and process, but Antonn deserves special mention. Antonn is sixteen years old and the sweetest kid. And he’s true to his word.  He promised that he would provide music at the MOR event, and yesterday, when he realized he didn’t have a ride, he strapped his guitar to his back and hopped on his bike to ride the twenty miles from Dayton to Silver Stage High School where the event was being held. One of our key organizers saw him peddling in the cold and wind as she was driving in. She caught him at about the ten-mile mark. If she hadn’t seen him, he would have pedaled the entire twenty miles. We had a lot of dedicated volunteers for this event, but this kid gives special meaning to the phrase “going the extra mile.”

Day 104 – Before and After

I’ve been at the Medical Outreach Response Event all day; and I will be there all day again tomorrow.   I took a lot of pictures, and it will take me awhile to get through them all.  By far the largest number of people who attended came for dental work.  We had so many requests, that we had to go to a lottery system. Those tickets were gold.  One of the lucky ones was Mark who allowed me to photograph his session with Dr. Brad.  Mark is an incredible guy with a happy outlook on life even with all that it has thrown at him.

Mark got a filling on his front incisor.

Here is the before . . .

Dr. Brad got to work . . .

 

 

And the result!

 

 

Panic!

I bought a new camera bag and as I was transferring my gear I noticed that my back-up battery was nowhere to be seen.  Every place I’ve looked online can’t get me a replacement until well after my shoot this weekend. I’ll be heading to Gordon’s today with my fingers crossed.

Day 102 – A little bit of this, a little bit of that

I tried to find some interesting things around the grounds this afternoon.  Someone neatly arranged these rocks atop the storm drain.

 

And I can’t seem to get enough of these dried flowers.

 

I’ve been wanting to play with HDR some more, so I shot this looking across the lot that is kitty-cornered to our property.

 

And before I processed these, I had to do my homework: finishing up the models’ photos and getting them emailed off to them. Here is a sampling.

 

 

 

I need to get to know Lightroom

I bought it a few weeks back when it was on sale, but haven’t really fiddled with it much. I need to!

Here is one of the shots taken last night processed in Adobe Lightroom and adding the B&W Creative – Creamtone preset. I kinda like it.

Day 101 – Under the wire

Apologies. Nothing to write home about here. It’s been a busy day and I spent the hours after class tonight processing photos I shot in Jeff’s studio last week. Our class shot three models and we are required to provide some shots to each of them for their portfolios.   The hour was getting late so I quickly set up my studio lights and shot a few self-portraits to try out some lighting effects.

I shot these with the light above my head to camera left and a fill card at camera right.  Shot at f/1.8, just for fun. I have to apologize…not my best work.