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**Amanda**
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We've lost a lot of people on this journey, haven't we?!
Congratulations on finishing Week 5.
Here's the WEEK 6 PDF
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- Amanda
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libis
This Pea Can Finally Pee!
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I'm still here! Thanks so much for keeping this up, Amanda!  |
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4thememoriesofU
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I'm still here! Sad we've lost so many though! |
-Lynisha
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Jill_Ilene
7 years later do I know what to put here? No.
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| Posted: 11/14/2010 4:30:23 PM
I'm one of the lost! I expected that though - I'm in school full time & working full time & planning my son's bar mitzvah. Barely time to breath! I'm going to try for this one though. |
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scrappinnurseanita
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| Posted: 11/14/2010 8:08:31 PM
I'm still here too! I'm just behind....way behind...I just posted my pics for week 3!! I also convinced a friend of mine to join 2Peas and do the class too! She was soooo excited about it. I am hoping to catch up this week. And thank you Amanda for doing this, even tho the ranks are dwindling. |
Anita
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**Amanda**
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Loc: Indiana
| Posted: 11/15/2010 9:07:11 AM
You guys rock.
I'm just happy to on this journey with a few "friends."
Has anybody else been having trouble posting responses? I can create a new post just fine, but when I hit "submit" on a reply to a thread, it just times out and won't post. Last week I know we were having a lot of trouble with double posting . . . I'm just hoping that THIS one posts when I hit submit. A girl could get a complex!  |
- Amanda
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**Amanda**
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| Posted: 11/15/2010 9:09:18 AM
OK, that worked -- obviously. But the only way I can get it to work is to uncheck the box that says "Preview this message before posting."
So I guess I'm going to be posting "Preview-Free" from now on. Look out!  |
- Amanda
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scrappingpickle
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I am here, just behind. I hope to get caught up this week. Thanks for keeping it going. |
Alesa Larsen
www.alesasphotoblog.blogspot.com
In my bag:
Pentax K10D
Pentax 50mm 2
Tamron 17-50mm 2.8
Pentax 18-55mm 3.5-5.6
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/15/2010 11:22:36 PM
Here, and so so happy that y'all are here, too.
This has already boosted my skill level and confidence considerably. I know that I know 1% of less than 1% that is worth knowing, but even that makes a difference!
Took a shot of my daughter that is crazy gorgeous - with beautiful bokeh and colors - in the street in front of our house and you would never know where we were. She has gorgeous, movie-star eyes that fascinate me and demand to be photographed. It has really motivated me to: improve my white balance, get up to speed on natural lighting, improve SOOC colors, read a TON about focusing, learn post-processing in PS5,
Now she plans to join me on the 12 week lessons, too, using my XT and my older lenses. YAY!!!!!
The aperture lesson sparked a series of epiphanies.
THANK YOU ALL!!!
I hope the rest of you are doing your happy dances each week too. That brings us all good luck!
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kellybird55
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Still here Hubby is just home a lot more and on the computer a lot more than I am! To be honest the flash week got me I couldn't get it! Back at ti and will post soon! |
LIZA
Canon 60D & Rebel XS
50mm 1.8 Canon lens
18-55mm Canon lens
55-250mm Canon lens
PSE 9.0
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**Amanda**
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| Posted: 11/17/2010 2:39:19 PM
Kellybird55: ITA about the flash lesson. I think I need to spend a lot more time on flash. I'm doing the MLK online course -- I'm on Week 2, and Week 4 is on Flash. We'll see how it goes.
Mom2S&S: That picture sounds amazing . . . care to post it so we can all drool?  |
- Amanda
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/17/2010 8:50:54 PM
Ay Yi yi Amanda, going to make me put my money where my mouth is? 
T2I, 50mm wide open and standing really really close to her
So, here are the things I notice that I need to work on:
1) I was too close, wide open, so the DOF was really, really shallow, like 1/4". Thanks to Lizz's awesome DOF posting, now I have a MUCH bigger clue, albeit still an itty bitty one.
2) I over-shopped her skin with softening to cover her teenage acne. Having to do this, though, has led her to care more and to take better care of her skin - so the beauty is what people see!
3) I've been tinkering with skin tones and I think this one is too dark/yellow/warm.
4) I don't like the crop but screwed up the original and didn't make a back-up! Took my LR34 book to bed as punishment.
I would love CC on it - brutal, please.
While I'm at it, I took a glamour shot of my husband this afternoon. I had 2Peas, well, MANY PEAS on my shoulders telling me: bokeh! DOF! Watch the background! Don't get run over! Make sure SS is at least 2x focal length! Look for catch lights!
Shot it, shopped it, cropped it. Has a terrible shadow on the lower left of my arm holding the camera. Going back another day this week to take some more in this location earlier in the day. Need to learn how to mask and adjust for highlights, etc.
Brutal CC, please. I think he's a little light. He's hispanic and has pale skin except the sunburned parts in the summer.
Canon 5D, same 50mm 1.4 lens, late afternoon
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melissacecilia
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| Posted: 11/18/2010 1:54:25 PM
I still stalk. I get annoyed with posting pictures because they end up so flippin' huge (even after I resize them).
Alison - your dd is beautiful!
Amanda - what do you think of the MLK classes? |
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libis
This Pea Can Finally Pee!
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| Posted: 11/18/2010 6:26:36 PM
OK, I'm not totally thrilled with how these turned out, but my friend followed instructions MUCH better than DS does! (As a side note, she's due TOMORROW! Doesn't she look amazing?!?!)
Indirect light, metered for subject
Indirect light, metered for background
Parallel to window
Catchlights (and my favorite of the bunch!) |
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/19/2010 4:28:27 AM
After trying to bribe Sam to sit by the window at the Chinese restaurant, this is the only photo of interest from that place:
5D 50mm SS1/40@ f/2.8 ISO100
Was trying to catch the lights" in the bottle and the pretty bubbles.
Ben, at a Mexican restaurant, after he jammed a blueberry gumball in his mouth. Got the catch lights, but had to hold him still and every setting was bad, and I didn't set my WB.
I need to re-read this lesson, find the right time of day, and stop letting everyone else in my house give me their opinion. At least, they're all lining up for the photos I'm printing for their 4x6 books (the reward for posing for me).
5D 50mm SS1/60@f/5 ISO1600 (yah, totally jacked the settings)
But this one made the whole exercise worthwhile. Inside, after we lost the daylight, one stand lamp and one umbrella light that we have no idea what to do with. But I like his expression and he was happy to pose!
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Daisha
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| Posted: 11/19/2010 3:53:03 PM
I took this at a recent shoot, indoors, using natural light only
50mm f/2.8 SS 250 ISO 640
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Jill_Ilene
7 years later do I know what to put here? No.
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| Posted: 11/19/2010 4:11:08 PM
I'm not going to have time to do everything, because we're all set for "the weekend from h*ll" as we've been calling it. But I didn't want to drop out completely, so this is...let's see...
ISO 2000, 1/30, F5
It's mostly natural light from the window to his right, but I ended up turning on a lamp too. He wasn't posing, so I just got what I could. His skin tone is obviously way off...he looks almost blue! I don't know if that's white balance or from the gray couch he's standing over?
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Jill_Ilene
7 years later do I know what to put here? No.
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| Posted: 11/19/2010 4:15:15 PM
Alison & Daisha those are gorgeous! Lizz, she's going to love having those!!!! |
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Daisha
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| Posted: 11/19/2010 7:54:02 PM
Alison & Daisha those are gorgeous!
Thank you |
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kellybird55
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| Posted: 11/20/2010 9:40:33 AM
all of these are SOOC
Capture catchlight
Subject parallel to light
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LIZA
Canon 60D & Rebel XS
50mm 1.8 Canon lens
18-55mm Canon lens
55-250mm Canon lens
PSE 9.0
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scrappinnurseanita
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| Posted: 11/21/2010 1:17:15 PM
This was a bit of a challenge for me cuz I'm not quite sure how to "meter for subject as opposed to metering for the light" I have no idea where my exposure meter is on my camera(canon50d)!! But here are my pics anyway..
Catchlights
Subject parallel to light
Subject parallel to light with me perpendicular to light
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Anita
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camerahappygirl
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Dont give up on me!!!! I am still here and doing it! just have NOT had enough time to actually post them here! I have been fighting in keeping our steers in our fence! They keep getting out! Even though our fence in electrified!  I am convinced they do it for the "electroshock therapy"!  any way will try TRY to get all my posts in by tomorrow sometime! But I AM STILL HERE! GO PEAS GO!  |
RinaB.
Learning with my:
CanonRebelXS
18-55mm
50mm F/8
85mm
75-300mm occassionally
Edit with:
Photo ShopCS5 S&T Edition on
a MacBook...
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 12:05:47 AM
Rina - well, you could take a photo of the cows against the fence and you might not need the flash! |
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 5:49:32 AM
Oh, and Liza, the photos of your daughter (?) are just beautiful. The third one especially . . . |
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4thememoriesofU
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 10:49:17 AM
I got a few pictures done last week but it was totally overcast just about every day so not a lot of light coming in the windows! Sun is shining this morning so I'm going to try and finish it up! |
-Lynisha
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**Amanda**
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 12:25:56 PM
Here's my best example of catchlights for this week. This is my 2 year old, Nick. Please excuse the runny nose (we've had that for a week now) and the balloon string. He wouldn't let go of his daddy's birthday balloon. There was a window behind me and to my left. You can also see the light in the ceiling. It's so frustrating when NOBODY will let you take their picture, isn't it?! It's times like this that I wish I had a dog. LOL
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- Amanda
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 12:32:42 PM
He has beautiful eyes.
I borrowed a friend's dog for the weekend because my kids are rebelling and won't pose unless bribed.
5D 50mm f/1.4@1/100 ISO1250 handheld, sooc, ambient room light
And some PS fun with MiaBella papers, and MCP Print-It template a first for me:
50mm f/1.8 SS 1/100 ISO 1250
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4thememoriesofU
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 7:19:42 PM
Finally...
Metering for background
Metering for face
Side light
Subject facing the window
Direct harsh light (and my WB is WAY off!)
Filtered (turned blinds) with a reflector (big white cardboard box!) beside her
A collection of DS with natural window light
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-Lynisha
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 8:07:03 PM
Lynisha - I love your examples because we can really see the difference in the quality of the light for each exposure. |
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Mom2S&S
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 8:10:58 PM
btw, part of why I am the jabber mouth on this is to keep it at the top in the hopes of drawing in others, even if they're just getting started on this course.
I'm appreciating it THAT much and learning THAT much.
THANK YOU!!!!!! |
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4thememoriesofU
PeaNut
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August 2006
Posts: 86
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Loc: NE
| Posted: 11/22/2010 8:13:32 PM
Thanks - it really helps me see what I'm doing when I do them in a series like that instead of one here and one there! |
-Lynisha
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kellybird55
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| Posted: 11/22/2010 8:47:58 PM
Wow it is so fun to see all the post! I love seeing that we are all human and our kids don't always look just perfect(runny nose mine has super chap lips I noticed half way through and others that just don't want to be in the pic)!
Thanks Alison her daddy is already vary worried about what he will do in 6 or so years!
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LIZA
Canon 60D & Rebel XS
50mm 1.8 Canon lens
18-55mm Canon lens
55-250mm Canon lens
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camerahappygirl
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Loc: Great White North (Canada)
| Posted: 11/25/2010 11:48:08 PM
here is my week 6!
1. Position your subject in direct light
1/320 5.0 iso100
* and then reposition your subject in
indirect, or filtered, light.
1/30 5.6 iso 100 
2. Capture catchlights - have your subject face the window while you're sitting
or standing with your back to the window.
3. Position your subject so that he/she/it is parallel to the window, while you are
perpendicular to the window.
1/30 4.5 iso 100
For some reason my pictures are not up loadin nice, not sharp or colorful??? these are all SOOC |
RinaB.
Learning with my:
CanonRebelXS
18-55mm
50mm F/8
85mm
75-300mm occassionally
Edit with:
Photo ShopCS5 S&T Edition on
a MacBook...
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libis
This Pea Can Finally Pee!
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October 2003
Posts: 16,419
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| Posted: 11/25/2010 11:59:31 PM
Since this is already BTT'd! The very pregnant subject of my pics gave birth today, Thanksgiving, to her little boy, Dashiell Henry! |
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Mom2S&S
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February 2004
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| Posted: 11/26/2010 12:32:15 AM
YAY! Can't wait to see the photos! |
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MichellesPhotos
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| Posted: 12/28/2010 3:19:44 PM
Left Auto white balance on so the colors aren't cohesive, whoops. All shot RAW, SOOC and zeroed out.
Back lighting with toys
Back lighting with Z
Harsh directional light/shadows
Catchlights
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dia.36
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Thanks for sharing! |
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