26 through 37

I'm trying to catchup. Today is day 51, and now I'm just 14 behind.

Photos 22, 23, 24 and 25.

I'm still playing catchup. Maybe by March I'll be even.

Here you are.

From 365, 2010

Piper has a serving spoon for you.


Easily one of my all time favorites. That's a crazy awesome smile. For the past few weeks, when the Backyardigans comes on tv, and she hears the theme music and/or sees the characters on the tv, she lights up.




The gang.

More Pics!

I'm on a roll.

16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.

From 365, 2010

Wow, look at all those photos!

I'm still catching up, and since I took a bunch of photos, here are some of them.

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15.

From 365, 2010

Piper loves clapping, and enjoys taking your hands and clapping them together!





We played Thunderstone over the weekend. It was very fun. It is basically Dominion, re-themed as D&D.






Going out for a bit!



My girl is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute.

Photos #6, 7 and 8!

From 365, 2010

Model: D3000
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 4.5
Focal Length: 29mm
Flash Used: Yes
shot on auto

From 365, 2010

Model: D3000
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 4.5
Focal Length: 30mm
Flash Used: Yes
shot on auto

From 365, 2010

Model: D3000
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Focal Length: 18mm
Flash Used: Yes
shot on auto

Photo #5

From 365, 2010

ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Focal Length: 18mm
Flash Used: Yes
Shot in RAW on auto, no tweaking done.

RAW vs JPG

For the first time, I have the option of shooting in RAW. I know a little about RAW. I wondered "Do I need to be shooting in RAW?", google quickly led me to answers like "If you're asking if you should be shooting in RAW or JPG, then the answer is JPG." But I wanted to try it out. Heck, I wasn't even sure how to, or if I could do post processing on a RAW image. So I turned it to RAW and just started shooting stuff. It was shooting RAW and a basic JPG.

I offloaded the RAW images onto my computer, having read that Picasa can display and process RAW stuff. And so it can. I fiddled for just a second with the pretty basic tools that Picasa offers, and then hit the "I'm feeling lucky button". A second later, the image adjusts a little. I do that for the whole batch, wondering what kind of results I'll see.

Click this to check out a sample:

Raw vs JPG

In some of the shots, Piper seems a bit green to my eye, but there's no denying that some of the RAW images come out better looking. What do you think? Do you shoot RAW or JPG?

Although I haven't touched photoshop in 5 years or so, I'm going to see how the images look in it.

Photo #4

ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 55mm
Flash Used: Yes

Bath time hairdo!

Photos, #2 and #3

I agonized over whether to host my late 365 project here.  And I think I've decided the answer is Yes.  So if you're following this, I hope you're ready for tons of photos of my kid.

Here's today, and its a twofer.




Model: NIKON D3000
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Focal Length: 18mm
Flash Used: Yes
Shot on auto ('children setting') I believe




Model: NIKON D3000
ISO: 800
Exposure: 1/25 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 55mm
Flash Used: No
Shot on auto ('sports')

Turns out that 1/25 is slower than I want, and I plan to try again with 1/50 or 1/100.

365, 2010 (But I'm cheating)

Last year I started doing the '365 project', in which you take pictures, and post at least one picture that you've taken per day.  I got 101 photos, and then I got bogged down with my awesome daughter Piper.  I'm lazy as well, which does not help.

I'm doing it again, only this time I'm crazy cheating.  I started on January 31st, so I'm going to do a little catchup. Additionally, I'm not going to swear to never miss a day.  It is going to happen.  Probably a few times.  I'll try to catch up.  My goal is to post 365 photos in a project this year.  I'll try to make them good, though I'll warn you that the vast majority of them will probably  be of Piper - well, because she's awesome.

Enjoy.

PS - I suppose a link to said photos would help.  Here you are: http://picasaweb.google.com/xjermx/3652010
I recently discovered that I can stick picasaweb links in my google feed reader, and they work like magic.