Your Capture Shapes

This week’s theme for You Capture is Shapes and at first I had no idea what I would take pictures of and then ran out of time, but looking through my photos from last week’s trip North, I did notice some shapes. I was taken random pictures of things for no apparent reason and voila…now I can use them.

My son so proud of his domino creation…gotta love those little rectangles!

Birthday Tiramisu with circular Biscotti

Pocket Watches

Ahh, Martini glasses, little triangles on sticks. Bliss.

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Aperture Challenge

I’m learning to play around with the manual settings on my camera more and more and so I decided to join the Bloggography Challenge over at Better in Bulk this week. The challenge was to photography something red or pink at different Aperture settings…let’s see what we got. Taken with a Canon XSi Rebel and a Canon 18-55mm lens. It was overcast and snowing out and since it’s not going to be stopping anytime soon, just excuse the poor light. The ISO was set at 800 for all the photos.

First up, my new baby, my iPhone with a pretty red case.

F7.0

F 13

Then some Murano glass candy, the only red one I have. Don’t mind the dust please, I hate dusting, it’s so pointless…and I didn’t notice it until after I had taken the pictures and opened transferred them to the computer. The glass Gondola in the background blurs a little more as you go higher in Aperture setting.

F16

F10

F6.4

On the first set, I like the higher Aperture photos more, on the glass candy, I prefer to lower Aperture photo.

Little Piano Man

The theme this week over at I Heart Faces is “Hands On” and it just so happens I got this shot of Little Man playing the piano last week when we visited my parent’s house. The piano was a big hit with both the boys, but Little Man especially was enthralled with it. Now, normally, a little piano man music while eating dinner would be nice, but when it’s a 4 year old who just bangs on the keys instead of tickling the ivories…not so much.

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Fix It Friday Week 44

Playing along with I Heart Faces and Fix It Friday today, but I cheated a little and used some actions and played with them…I love actions, makes life a little easier…lots to do you know!

Original

First Fix:

Lightened, sharpened, Boosted the color, cropped…then used CoffeeShop Sun-Kissed Lens Flare Action

Second Fix:

Lightened, sharpened, cropped then used PW Seventies Action

Third Fix:

Lightened and warmed it up and cropped in tighter.

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