Day 71 - Technology through the ages

Today's assignment was to make a photograph that illustrates a role of technology in your life. I have an iPad on a trial basis from the school board. My job is to find various apps that can be used at the elementary level. While doing this I've also found some great apps for preschool (We do have preK at our school) and have tested them out on the godchildren. This is little Sarah's hand. She loves the Whimsy app. When you finish putting all the pieces of the puzzle together, a real-life picture appears of the animal and it plays its sound. The trickiest part of the app for Sarah is keeping her touch light.

Day 69 - Milkbone

Today's assignment was to make a photograph of a beautiful simple shape, such as an egg. Utilize lighting and focus to make it sing. While we humans may not think this shape beautiful, it's a favourite for many K9's. In fact, it was rather tricky getting my pictures taken with the excited tails wagging around the table. I used my iPad Photo Soft Box once again. I actually used the red light but when processing, thought it looked better in antique - more natural. Once all the shooting was done Dexter and Sadie were given the photo subject to eat. Yummy.

Day 20 - Ghost Change

Did some more playing with my macro and the Photo Soft Box Pro this evening. We have a little coin bowl we keep in the cupboard for when change is needed. I decided to take it out and see what I could get. The photo above is the result of setting the exposure time to 6 seconds and then throwing more coins into the container after about 2 seconds. The transparent coins are the ones that were thrown in after wards. I like playing with exposure this way and am always looking for new ways to do so. I'm open to suggestions if you have any.
Speaking of suggestions, thanks to all of you who gave me feedback on my signature. I have decided to change it but haven't time to really play with it. Hopefully, I'll get to that this weekend. For now I'm such using text on an overlay layer.

Canon XSi
Lens: 100 mm
Focal Length: 100
F/stop: 4
Exposure: 6 sec
ISO: 400

Day 359 - New iPad Photo Toy

Found a new app for the iPad. It's called Photo Soft Box Pro. It was on sale for 99 cents and so far I think it's money well spent. There are a variety of different lights and effects and it's very friendly to use. I used the red light (four rectangles, looks like a window) effect on this picture. I turned off the all the lights except the one on my iPad. I also needed to use the tripod because of slow shutter speed. I still have some tweeking to do as I find the red of the tomato isn't uniform but I think it'll be a handy tool.