Month: April 2008

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Ireland Photography

Belly Dancers

Even Belly Dancers Need Their Coffee
Canon 5D, 40mm, f4.5, 1/80, ISO 400

First shots from the new camera, and another Sunday party at the Happy Pear provided the perfect test. There was sunshine, live music and belly dancers all to raise money for a school in Peru and the place was buzzing. I was dying to see how my old 17mm wide angle looked without the crop:

Twirl
Canon 5D, 17mm, f5.6, 1/320, ISO 100

Kick
Canon 5D, 34mm, f5.6, 1/320, ISO 100

Eve having a boogie and sporting her new boots:

Eve Dancing
Canon 5D, 17mm, f6.3, 1/1000, ISO 200

And one with the 85mm to show Eve having a great time…she found some pink:

Pink Girl
Canon 5D, 85mm, f5.6, 1/500, ISO 100

So, my verdict on the 5D is that I love the colour and the tones and getting back all of the image without the crop, but….I’m afraid I’ve gotten a faulty one. The light meter is underexposing by about 3 stops and just can’t cope with any high contrast conditions. It was actually a good exercise to have to use my brain to figure out exposures (ha!) but I’d rather have the light meter thanks! Hopefully the customer service from the people I bought the camera from will be just as good when you have to return something as it’s been so far.

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Personal Photography

The Reason I Raced Home From Work Today…

I will be sleeping with this beside me on my pillow tonight

…the FedEx man brought me a present 🙂

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Photography Portrait A Day

#31: Quinlin

Quinny02
Canon 10D, 85mm, f1.8, 1/45, ISO 400

This is Erik and Marci’s eldest daughter. Her name is Quinlin and she is such a beautiful, fun little girl. She is a wonderful big sister and I am so happy I got to spend some time with her. She uses a lot of sign language to communicate as she has a condition called Cri Du Chat which makes it difficult for her to communicate vocally. I took these photos in the evening, just as the sun was going down. Quinnlin was sitting in her mum’s lap and they were reading together. The light from the window as the sun set was like a spotlight on Quinlin’s face.

QuinnyBW03
Canon 10D, 85mm, f1.8, 1/750, ISO 400

QuinnyBW02
Canon 10D, 85mm, f1.8, 1/500, ISO 400

Quinlin and her Mommy
Canon 10D, 85mm, f1.8, 1/125, ISO 400

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Blogging

All Clear

Sorry if you happened to visit earlier this evening and saw strange things happening. I was updating WordPress (scary stuff!) and managed to have my account suspended along the way. Joy, joy. It seems to be working OK now…let me know if you find any gremlins still lurking.

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Personal Photography

Zoey And Max

Zoey07
Canon 10D, 85mm, f2.8, 1/500, ISO 800

Max
Canon 10D, 85mm, f2.5, 1/500, ISO 200

One of the greatest and most exciting parts of my trip came right at the end when I got to fly up to Seattle and have a little impromptu reunion with some of the people I spent 2 years in Mexico with. It had been about 13 years since we’d all seen each other and, even though we’re all married with kids, we got to pretend we were 21 again for a little while. Good times. I did take the opportunity to take a few photos of Marci and Erik‘s children. The photos in this post are of their two youngest, Zoey and Max. Zoey tagged along with us all weekend and was so quiet and laid back that you’d barely know she was there. Max is a little ball of energy who sings and dances wherever he goes. I had to crank up the shutter speed and even then I only caught a few that weren’t a blurred streak across the frame.