Wanted some more practice with my lighting equipment and Corinne turning 7 months old seemed like a good excuse.
This one is our favorite of the bunch because of Corinne’s face. Sadly it was one of the first I took and it’s overexposed on the side of her face.
And some more:
Last week NASA released a bunch (over 10,000) of original images from the Apollo missions on their Flickr account. They’re all Public Domain images so anyone can download the originals and use them for anything they like. I flipped through and picked out my favorites and cleaned them up. I’ll probably get some nice canvas prints made of some of them when Canvas Press has sales.
Here are my top 10 after cleaning them up. I’ve uploaded my full versions so you can download them yourself if you want to make a poster or canvas print or something. Clicking an image will open the full-size version, which you can then save to your computer using right-click -> Save image…
I wrapped an LED around a button battery with a little material to keep it separated so you push on it to turn the LED on. Then we took turns waving it around while camera took a picture with a long exposure.
Heather’s work was usually very…nuclear:
We encouraged her to move around more:
I tried to write my name, but my spatial awareness is apparently not great:
Jess did better with her contribution:
We and a few families from Church went to a local park and climbed a hill to try and get a decent view of the lunar eclipse tonight. Despite having had nothing but clear skies for about 9 months we managed to have clouds covering the eastern sky, and only the eastern sky, this evening. We waited around for a while and did manage to get about 5 minutes where we could see the moon. I had had plans to try and make a nice timelapse image as the moon came up over the horizon, but that didn’t work out.
Here’s the best shot I managed to get:
But at least we got a chance to hangout with friends for a little while and we did get to see something.
Of course, after the eclipse ended the sky cleared up perfectly:
These were just using my Pentax K-7 with a 200mm lens, nothing special.
And here is some of the group that was up on the hill watching:
I decided to make use of my new photography lighting equipment and took some family pictures today. Originally it was going to be a little photo shoot for Corinne, but that rapidly expanded. Unfortunately, I wasn’t planning on taking a full family picture so I didn’t have the tripod and remote out and configured. So don’t have one of the whole family, but we’re all in there in some way or another.
It was tough trying to get Heather and Corinne looking in the same direction at the same time with something amounting to a smile on their faces. I resorted to tickling Heather as she’s reached the age where asking her to smile results in bizarre grimaces.
Here are some of the best shots:
And the other shots that came out well:
