Jan 9th--Six Seconds of table tennis.

18mm
6s
f22
ISO 1000
White Balance Custom

This isn't at all what I was hoping for.  I was hoping to get an image of the ball traveling back and forth in a blur.  I am going to try to find a glow in the dark ball that I can take a picture of with lower lights but I still like the way that the two players (myself on the right in an orange OSU wrestling shirt) are blurred in the image.

Jan 8th--long exposure

This was taken at the mountain identifier between the John Day river and Condon.
5s Exposure
f20
ISO 1000
White balance set at Shade
42mm

I really like the idea of a long exposure and capturing head light/tail lights in a ribbon.  I'd like to try to get a car coming out of Heppner towards Ruggs.  There are some nice hairpin turns that you can see if you set up in the right spot. . .a later post?

Jan 7th--a feeble attempt. . .

Jan 7th I was up late so that I could sleep in before working the night shift the next day.  I had to get creative as I had not yet created an image and it was already after 2200.  So I took a photo of something that I'm always close to--a can of diet Pepsi.  I messed around a little with the image in Picasa.  Sorry attempt at creating an image I know but oh well. . .

Jan 6th

This was a photo of my son and daughter in the bath together, but our daughter had a funny look on her face so I cropped it down to just show my son.  The background was already out of focus but I added a soft focus to the image on everything but the face.

Nikon D90
34mm
f4.2
ISO 1000
1/60 sec

My Son in B&W

Momiji Sushi

Jan 3rd Lincoln City OR HDR

A four shot exposure taken on the Oregon Coast by Lincoln City Oregon.  All photos taken Jan 3, 2012.

Another attempt at HDR but without the obnoxious noise

.  I shot this Jan 2 at about 7:30 in roughly the same spot as the photos from Jan 1.

My first attempt at an HDR photo.  This is a sunrise at 7:30 AM Jan 1 between Heppner and Ruggs.  I know that the image is noisy but I had my camera's ISO set high because I was taking photos at a wrestling tournament the day before, and I forgot to reset it to 2.0. 

Nikon D90

F5.6

ISO 1250 (hence the noise)

Focal Length 85 mm

Manual White Balance

3 exposures bracketed at 1/250, 1/2000, and 1/60

I tweaked the white balance a bit in Lightroom before importing them into Luminance HDR.

Resolution: Project Photo.

So I always make resolutions, every year, normally I keep them, sometimes I don't.  This year my resolution is going to be one that I can share, well at least one of the resolutions is going to be.  I'm going to take a photo every day--intentionally.  Not just a quick snap shot but one that is done on purpose (and not in the Auto mode). I hope that in doing so I'll be able learn how to use my camera and all of it's functions.  I'm working on a couple of "assignments" to fulfill during the year as well.  If you have any ideas let me know.  I know that I want to get some landscape shots, I want to mess around with HDR, get some sports/actions images.  I think that I'd like to try to do a "fashion" shoot at some point (like shooting someone's senior pictures).

What other ideas do you have?