Archive for November, 2009
November 4, 2009 – Fallen leaves
Posted by Dave in - Best of Dave's POTD -, Fall Color, Picture of the Day, Washington State on November 4, 2009
Fallen leaves, Woodland Park, Seattle Washington
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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It’s a gorgeous fall day here in Seattle today, so I decided to stick with the theme. This was taken on the same little outing as yesterday’s picture. I popped Wes in the baby backpack, and took him for a little walk around the park. He fell asleep about 10 feet from the front door, but at least I had a good time.
This time of year, the trees tend to get all of the love. Everybody looks around and says “wow, those trees are awesome!”. But it seems to me that all of the leaves that already fell are at least half of the experience. The yellow and orange light that filters down through the canopy are nice, but the orange/brown ground cover completes the experience. For me anyway. Does this paragraph seem forced at all? Because it totally is. I didn’t want to call it done after just that first half-baked set of comments, so I sat here staring at my keyboard for about 5 minutes trying to think of something else to write.
Now you know.
Notes: Canon EOS Rebel T1i, Tamron 28-75 mm lens. 1/250s, f/5.6, ISO 200. Focal length: 44mm.
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November 3, 2009 – Woodland Park
Posted by Dave in - Best of Dave's POTD -, Fall Color, Picture of the Day, Washington State on November 3, 2009
Woodland Park in Autumn
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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I love the fall, I really do. I also really like living across the street from Woodland Park. It’s a nice place to head out for a little walk if you’ve got that “I just gotta get outside” thing going on. And when you get these nice, sunny days in the fall, the yellow light filtering down through the leaves is just… sublime.
A lot of the trees here around Seattle have already finished for the season, but we’ve still got a lot of the season left (And there are still a bunch of trees that are still green!) That’s one nice thing about Seattle: we have a nice long fall. Which does help compensate for the short summers and the fact that it gets dark at 4:30 pm in the winter.
I hope you all have been able to get out and enjoy the season. If not, do it while there’s still time! Forget work, this is more important! Do it NOW! Okay, see you tomorrow.
Notes: Canon EOS Rebel T1i, Tamron 28-75 mm f/2.8 lens. 1/160s, f/6.3, ISO 400. Focal length: 28mm.
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November 2, 2009 – Daisy
Posted by Dave in Flowers, Macro, Picture of the Day on November 2, 2009
Daisy
Monday, November 2, 2009
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Hey everyone, hope you all had a great Halloween! I had a bit of a hard time today deciding whether to end that first sentence with a period or an exclamation mark. Using the ! seemed to come off a bit too cheeseball-enthusiastic for me, but the period just sounded grumpy. I went back and forth, but you can all see the final choice.
This is another daisy. That’s my assumption anyway. I know very little about flowers, but it sure seems like they are all some kind of daisy or another, so that’s usually my default guess. If I’m wrong (about this or any other picture) please do let me know. When I say something like “this is a [whatever]” and end the sentence with a period (not an exclamation mark) it comes off as me saying it like it’s a fact, when in reality I’m really not that confident in the information. (The exclamation mark has a different connotation entirely. That’s like me being proud of the fact that it’s a [whatever], as if I’m a 2 year old kid who just learned how to say the word. Maybe I’ll try that one tomorrow. This is a FIRETRUCK! No Dave, that’s a burrito.)
In photography, there are a lot of rules. And, like all of the best ones, they are all made to be broken. By that I mean, there are generally a lot of general things to do that generally make a picture more interesting. You can follow them to the letter every time, and you’ll usually get a pretty great shot. But sometimes you can break the rule, and the result can be pretty striking. Today’s example is the rule of thirds. The first thing they teach you in photography class (I assume… I haven’t been in a photography class since freshman year of high school, and I honestly have no idea what they told us) is that you should try to put the subject of your photo at either the 1/3rd or 2/3rds mark. As in, either one third of the way from right-to-left, or one third of the way from left-to-right. Or top-to-bottom. Or, even better, both! As in, if you draw imaginary horizontal and vertical lines at the 1/3rd and 2/3rds marks, put your subject at one of the four intersections. Make sense? It’s really amazing how much that little tidbit can help an image.
That being said, look at this picture! Oh my effing god, how fun is that?! It’s… RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE! Because I broke the rule. Because you can do that sort of thing. Because the rule was meant to be broken. Get it?
The key takeaway here is, you really can’t do anything “wrong”. Except not take pictures. That’s wrong. So don’t do that.
Notes: Canon EOS Rebel XT, Quantaray 70-300 mm Macro lens. 1/400s, f/5.6, ISO 400. Focal length: 300 mm.
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