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Day 270 – Flowers by the Door

I had a meeting this evening after work and these dried flowers just inside the door caught my eye.  I shot this at 800 ISO,making the shot a bit grainy, considering the subject matter, I think it works.

For fun, I added a fresco filter for even more texture.

After I got home I caught Jezebel by lamplight.

Day 225 – Lazy Sunday

I just needed one day without any drama. Can’t say I quite had that, but it was close.  Laundry, the Olympics and sleepy kitties.

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.

Day 176 – I’d rather post these

I’ve been up to my eyeballs working on the photo gallery for the baby shower I went to yesterday. The gallery is here, if you’d like to take a peek. The father-to-be is our nephew, so this was a family affair and then some.

Therefore, I haven’t had a chance to go out with the camera, and rather than post something less than, I’m going to post some more photos I took yesterday. Hope you don’t mind.

Jezebel.  I was playing with aperture priority and set my camera to f/5.6 at 100 ISO. The camera set the shutter speed to 1/15s. I also had the flash on, so Jezzie came out blurry except for her eyes.  I kind of like it!

Nina – giving me her “look.”

Grandma and Grandson (My mother-in-law and our nephew) at yesterday’s shower.

Mother and Son at yesterday’s shower.

Roses for Michelle, from Matt.

Day 163 – Toy

I may have mentioned previously one of my cats, Jezebel, is a talker. I mean she’s really a talker. She will wander from room to room meowing and meowing. I’ve tried distracting her with the laser pointer, but that only lasts for the length of time I am willing to play. So today I went to the pet store for cat food and to search for something that would engage Jezzie’s mind.

This toy has a well in the middle to add loose catnip. The cats can’t get it, but the odor wafts out to them while they play with the ball that rolls around the outer circle. At first they were far more interested in the catnip than they were in the ball.

First Jezzie had a turn . . .

Then Maya . . .

Then Jezzie again . . .  Once she got used to the eau de catnip, she started playing with the ball. She returned over and over again to the toy throughout the evening.

This toy may have done the trick, her meowing seems to have abated a bit, and  instead of being asleep on the back of one of our sofas, right now she is sleeping  next to the toy on the floor.

Day 153 – Discovery

I got my five-year service award bonus check in the mail today, and while perusing the reviews for the Speedlite 580EX II, I discovered that the EOS 7D pop-up flash can act as the master to my current 430 EX Speedlite.  Actually, I know that many DSLRs have this capability, but I did not have it with my EOS T1i and so it slipped my mind that I should have it with the 7D.

So I played grabbed my flash manual and the 7D manual and did me some learnin’ tonight.  I set the pop up flash to the lowest intensity so that if it were the only flash firing it did not expose anything. All I wanted was enough light to fire my off-camera 430 EX.  It worked!  And then I had to practice.

Once again, the cats were cooperative.

Jezebel lit with flash to camera right and bouncing off the ceiling.

 Maya framed by dog paraphernalia.  Flash to camera left and bouncing off ceiling.

Jezebel again.  Diffused flash to camera right (on floor).

So, for now, the 580EX II can wait. I’ll spend my bonus check on sorely needed clothes.