February 1st: Not quite a shoestring
1st February 2008
Today is the first day of February and the first day of my 29 Frames experiment. I made it easily today, shooting 56 frames. I posted 12 of them to Flickr. There are more experiments with the red-branched bushes; more successful ones than yesterday, I think. And some photos from a visit to a new (to us) sushi restaurant down near Factoria Mall, including a nice one of Dawn.
Julia left a comment about yesterday’s picture, suggesting that I focus on the slanting lines and the vines. Rather than cropping that photo, I went back and took some more pictures and got the crop in-camera. It is another good way of looking at the scene. Except I just can’t manage all three axes of movement without a tripod, so my lines aren’t at the angles I wanted. And there’s something about those bushes at the base that I like that didn’t work as well when in this format. Maybe. As always with my pictures, I need time away from them, and more time with them, to let the ones that I like settle in.
I might have picked this one for today just because it’s all happening on one plane, like some scribbles on a canvas made of dirt.
Shooting and processing notes
Shot with the 17-40 F4.0 L at 40mm, f5.6, 1/40 @ ISO 400. I again used LightZone. I love the quality of the photos but, oh, the slowness just about kills me. It takes so very much longer than when I use Lightroom and Photoshop. But I am getting pictures that look like what I imagined when I pressed the shutter and that’s got to be worth some time, isn’t it?
Photo a Day 2008 Links
Photo a Day 2008
Photo a Day 2008: February
Flickr: Collection: Photo a Day 2008
Flickr: February 2008 Photoset
Flickr: February 2008 Extras Photoset