OMG, I totally love this image. If you have Instagr.am, you gotta follow my wife, bennettanneb. She’s totally come out of her shell, photographically speaking. I knew she had an eye and latent talent, but was a bit intimidated by the millions of settings on a dSLR. Instagr.am has helped open her up. I just wish there was a way to link to her feed or something outside of the iPhone app [Update: I figured it out! Her images are here, and so are mine]. So, while I’m thinking about it, here are some other images she’s posted…
Imma so proud of you sweetie!
As we prepared to visit family on Christmas Eve, I nearly left the D5000 at home in favor of my newly acquired iPhone. I figured, what the heck, it has an amazing (for a phone) camera, so why call attention to myself as the family photog? I grabbed the D5000 along with the Jive 35 while my kids and wife were waiting in the vehicle. It was literally a last-second decision.
Boy am I glad I took it with me–I’m very pleased with the results. I’ve used the D5000 just long enough that I’m able to use it without putting a lot of thought into the process of changing settings. Spot metering? Bam. Auto-iso? Check, or not. Can I hand-hold @ 1/30s? Just barely, better brace, and spray-and-pray.
Then my daughter decided she wanted to take an arms-length portrait with her cousins. Given the low light in the room, her camera phone was too blurry, so I offered my iPhone. That freed me to take the picture above, which I dearly love. And this one.
Boys will be boys. If you’re curious, here’s the picture they created.
For all the Instagr.am hatin’ I’ve done recently (mostly in blog comments elsewhere), I am sorry. I just didn’t realize how much fun I would have with the filters. I’m trying not to take pictures just because of the filters, but I have to admit, a few of my images were dramatically helped, even given life by, the filters.
A few weeks ago I “wished” that I had more demand for my photography skills. That was 11/26. At that time, I had one pending head-shot session, scheduled for 11/28. A couple of days later I was approached by the leader of our corporate orchestra–a volunteer organization that does performs as a part of community outreach–to see if I would shoot a performance a local elementary school. One of the images from that performance is above. One of the guys whom I know in the orchestra asked me to take pictures of the Jazz Ensemble a couple of days later. That was the source of the iPhone comparison I did.
Then the orchestra asked if I would do portraits for all the members–all 42 of them–before and after another performance (that was a lot of work, and great fun; they were all great sports, considering I spent between 30 and 90 seconds on each of them). A couple of days later, a friend asked if I was interested in doing senior portraits for his daughter. Another coworker, out of the blue, asked if I would do a head-shot session, and now the leader of the orchestra is interested in portraits. Phew.
Be careful what you wish for. Or, for those English majors out there, be careful for what you wish. Or something like that.
