Another shot from my garden today.
Day 167 (August 25) - A Swarm of Students
This is what happens if perchance you are holding a camera before class.
Can you tell they're not shy?
Day 166 (August 24) - Kitten
The kittens at school are getting bigger, but they still can't quite walk yet.
They do make this awesome noise that sounds like a squeaky dog toy, though. And they make it almost constantly.
Day 165 (August 23) - Green
I went out into our garden today on a mission. I was going to shoot into the light! Lens flare isn't really something I've gone after much, but it seems to currently be all the rage, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I didn't fall in love with any of my more flared shots, but I did get a few keepers. They might class more as contrejour than as flare shots. (Contrejour just is a fancy way of saying shooting towards the light.) And I'm determined to keep at it. I want to try it with a few different lenses, at different times of day; these were shot with my 50mm lens around 4:30 pm, which is still a pretty bright time of day here but at least the sun is low enough in the sky that it's easy to point your camera in its general direction.
Anyway, if you're interested in flare, here are a couple of great flare tutorials:
http://digital-photography-school.com/5-tips-for-achieving-artistic-lens-flare-how-to
http://thepioneerwoman.com/photography/2009/06/sun-flare-for-beginners/
Here and here are tutorials that show how to create that cool 'sun star' effect. Haven't tried it out myself, yet.
Day 162 (August 20) - More Black and White
Some more black and whites of the scene at school just before class. You can see that the kids have to line up before they come inside (one line of girls and one line of boys), but even so it can get a little chaotic.
Day 161 (August 19) - Rain
A view of the rainstorm at school yesterday. I had never realized the difficulty of capturing rain in a way where the camera can see it as well as the human eye until I was crouching under the eaves of a building with students looking at me like I was crazy, trying to find a good subject and protect my camera from wayward drops all at the same time.
I feel like this one at least gives you some idea of how hard it was raining, though.
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