Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Mini Phototography Session From/For the Novice
A small lesson in extended exposure photography!! Mind you I am STILL learning about my fabulous camera, but I figured out something neat, and thought that a few others might find it useful to build on, or use it for other projects!! I have also seen others use sparklers at 4th of July using the same theory!
So, last night, I was flipping thru a few websites, and saw an idea with the city lights of SF with the extended exposures, and car lights "streaming", and thought I would try it with a flash light! So, here are a few of the pictures, with my "how-to's" down below!! I shot these with a Canon T1i and 18-55mm lens. Editing was done in Creative Memories Memory Manager editing program.
timer, so i left lights off, and focused flashlight on the back of the
couch where I would stand to get camera to zoom in and focus.
Hindsight-I could have turned AF off and MF, yep.
So, I would get the camera focused, and have timer set for 2 seconds,
have all lights off in room, click shutter, shut off flashlight, run
over to my position, put arm in starting postion of letter for cursive
name, turn on flashlight and begin!!
Draw-Fluid, loopy, smooth, wide, high, above the camera, start far left!!
Now, I am a Lefty, thru and thru... You will write the letters as you
would on paper, because you will flip them in the photo editing
program.
Another tip, set the tripod about waist level and draw above the
camera, up on the wall over the top of the camera, then you can kind
of follow and see what you are drawing too. Make sure you dont
overlap your letter too much.
when you are done, you can zigzag, loop-dee loop, turn off the
flashlight, etc, until the camera timer runs out. Play with it a bit,
when viewing it on the camera, it wont look like much because it will
be backwards. Later, in a photo editing program, you will have to
edit the shadows and highlights and midtones a bit to get the desired
effect and to tone down all background noise.
I still need to play with it more to get it right, but I think its off to a great start!!
I hope these are clear enough for you!
M
So, last night, I was flipping thru a few websites, and saw an idea with the city lights of SF with the extended exposures, and car lights "streaming", and thought I would try it with a flash light! So, here are a few of the pictures, with my "how-to's" down below!! I shot these with a Canon T1i and 18-55mm lens. Editing was done in Creative Memories Memory Manager editing program.
it was so much fun! and super easy! It took me about 5 practice
shots before I got it down. I used my front room, but didnt do
anything special, no sheets, etc. I did wear a black sweatshirt. It
was a smaller flashlight, larger than a pen, smaller than a maglite.
I might try a little bigger next time and play with it. Tripod,
Camera set on Tv, ISO-100, initially I had the shutter set for 3-4
seconds, but realized, for bigger names, I needed more time, and it
looked better if I wasn't rushed. So, I knew I would be about 10' from
the camera. The overhead light is too far away to use my AF andtimer, so i left lights off, and focused flashlight on the back of the
couch where I would stand to get camera to zoom in and focus.
Hindsight-I could have turned AF off and MF, yep.
So, I would get the camera focused, and have timer set for 2 seconds,
have all lights off in room, click shutter, shut off flashlight, run
over to my position, put arm in starting postion of letter for cursive
name, turn on flashlight and begin!!
Draw-Fluid, loopy, smooth, wide, high, above the camera, start far left!!
Now, I am a Lefty, thru and thru... You will write the letters as you
would on paper, because you will flip them in the photo editing
program.
Another tip, set the tripod about waist level and draw above the
camera, up on the wall over the top of the camera, then you can kind
of follow and see what you are drawing too. Make sure you dont
overlap your letter too much.
when you are done, you can zigzag, loop-dee loop, turn off the
flashlight, etc, until the camera timer runs out. Play with it a bit,
when viewing it on the camera, it wont look like much because it will
be backwards. Later, in a photo editing program, you will have to
edit the shadows and highlights and midtones a bit to get the desired
effect and to tone down all background noise.
I still need to play with it more to get it right, but I think its off to a great start!!
I hope these are clear enough for you!
M
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
FREEBIE KIT!! Speed Freek!!
This weekend, Kelly-Jo, Scrappy-Bug and RebeccaB have a huge, brilliant FREEBIE Collab for YOU!! You can go HERE and start collecting the parts, and see some of the awesome layouts created! Here are the previews of the kit, and the LO I created. I used some of our pics from our Disneyland trip and Autopia!
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Zebralicious!!
Michelle at Just For You DigiScraps came out with a new kit last week called Zebralicious, and boy is it ever!! It is in store now!!! It is a huge kit with 31 papers and 56 elements. Here is a preview of some of the kit. Additional previews are in the shop. There is a nice little Add-On also available HERE!!
And here are a few pages I did of my friend K and our fabulously cute kids at a Park Play Date a few weeks ago:
And here are a few pages I did of my friend K and our fabulously cute kids at a Park Play Date a few weeks ago:
Crazy Busy Lately!!
It's been crazy busy around here lately!! Hopefully things will slow down a bit now!!
We just got back from 5 glorious days in sunny So-Cal and Disneyland!! The boys had a blast!!! I got some fantastic pictures, and I can't wait to scrap them!!!
Well, I am off to get caught up on blogs and forums and kits... oh my!!!
xoxo!
M
We just got back from 5 glorious days in sunny So-Cal and Disneyland!! The boys had a blast!!! I got some fantastic pictures, and I can't wait to scrap them!!!
Well, I am off to get caught up on blogs and forums and kits... oh my!!!
xoxo!
M
Miffy Saurus Stomp!!!
RebeccaB has been BUSY BUSY BUSY!!! She has a new kit available and a NEW STORE, ANGEL BABY SCRAPS, WOO HOO..... Miffy Saurus Stomp is Ruffy's sister and this kit is a girl version of Ruffy. Its a huge kit with 16 papers, 60 elements and an alpha and is perfect for scrapping your little girls without all the pretty things like flowers, ribbons etc....
Her new store is called Angel Baby Scraps and you can find Ruffy and Miffy Saurus Stomp available for purchase now. (if you have noticed, yes the Miffy dinosaurs look slightly different to what the Ruffy dinosaurs has looked but this is the updated version and at Angel Baby Scraps, Ruffy has been updated also....)
Miffy Saurus Stomp can also be found at Scrap-Party Digishop as well as Ruffy. This version of Miffy has sticker-style dinosaurs if thats what you prefer.
She has a FREEBIE Quickpage HERE and a FREEBIE Miffy Saurus Kit Add-On HERE!!!
Here are the previews:
Her new store is called Angel Baby Scraps and you can find Ruffy and Miffy Saurus Stomp available for purchase now. (if you have noticed, yes the Miffy dinosaurs look slightly different to what the Ruffy dinosaurs has looked but this is the updated version and at Angel Baby Scraps, Ruffy has been updated also....)
Miffy Saurus Stomp can also be found at Scrap-Party Digishop as well as Ruffy. This version of Miffy has sticker-style dinosaurs if thats what you prefer.
She has a FREEBIE Quickpage HERE and a FREEBIE Miffy Saurus Kit Add-On HERE!!!
Here are the previews:
These are the pages I made with this awesome kit of my beautiful friend C, and her girls!! The pictures fit perfect with the kit!!
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