Benny is from China and he works with my Mum in the dental clinic. He is the sweetest guy you could ever meet and so he’s perfect to have nearby when you’re at the dentist!
On another note, I’m photographing a newborn tomorrow…just 9 days old! I’m really excited because I’ve been hoping for the opportunity to photograph a tiny baby for ages. Hopefully I’ll be able to share a few on the blog when I get them processed.
Ryan has been showing off torturing me demonstrating his new Canon 5D camera in his latest photographs. However fond I am of my 10D, it really is showing its age these days and I’m slowly squirrelling away my euros so I can upgrade. One thing that has always been difficult for me to grasp is the whole idea of the crop factor. I would try to read up on it but it’s all technobabble after awhile and I couldn’t get a clear idea of the difference. If you’re at all interested in knowing what makes the new cameras better than the old ones like mine (besides picture quality but that’s a whole other post) this link is very cool. It shows just what you’re losing through the crop of the older cameras and I was quite surprised at just how much the crop takes away:
OK, I got waaay off track there for a couple of weeks and am very behind, but I’m reluctant to give up on this project of mine. Plus, when I saw Grace walking towards me today I had to snap her portrait. I did try and get back into it earlier this week but all of a sudden people were turning me down. They were all friendly about it but still…rejection is tough!
A few more from my time with Creativity in the Classroom. Their assignment was to take a decorate a plain matchbox and create something that represented themselves to go inside it. They came up with some really beautiful ideas.
Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/15, ISO 200
Canon 10D 85mm, f2.5, 1/90, ISO 200
Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/60, ISO 200
Again, there are a couple more on Flickr.
First of all, I want to thank you all for your comments on my last post. It was a real boost for me to read them all and I know how difficult it is to know what to say when someone tells you they’ve lost a loved one so thanks for taking the time to let me know you care.
Now, I mentioned a couple of days ago about the group Creativity in the Classroom and how I had spent an afternoon photographing one of their workshops in a Dublin school. Well, it was so much fun for me, and I have been happily processing the photographs and wanted to share some of my favourites. So today and tomorrow I’ll put a few up here and you can check out some more, if you like, on Flickr.
The sun flare in the photo above came in very useful with making the pupils less recognisable.
Some of the children’s artwork:
Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/250, ISO 200
Finally, the long lists for the Irish Blog Awards have been slowly leaking out over the past few days. I’m really chuffed to see that Gingerpixel has been nominated in Best Photoblog and Best Blog! Thanks to whoever nominated me for that one, I’m extremely flattered. Check out the other nominees, the standard this year is excellent.