Family Shots

Here are some Family images I tried to get during my holiday rounds (I forgot to get one of my Brother and Sister together...):


My Family:








Andrea's Family:

Milo

My Aunt's little protector!


Tuckered Out from present opening:

Trish

Trish, a photo by je.brewer on Flickr.

Took this quick snap of my sister at the family XMas gathering.

Feeling that I'm still a super-noob with composition and lighting I was really surprised on how well it came out with my on camera speed flash bouncing off the wood ceiling in and attempt to soften the hard evening light coming in the window from the left of the frame.

I'm still learning to use my flash better but this shot shows I'm heading in the right direction.

Now if only I was better at post processing to soften the image up a little.... :p

I forgot how cold WI can be this time of year...

You would think after 34 years of living in WI I would remember that November does tend to get cold at night.

Wanted to do a short night photo walk but was too cold so we figured we would go home and get into comfy clothes and watch Top Gear. :p

I did manage to get three OK shots to share though:

Canon 6D Contest

I normally do not do this and this will be the only post I do, but winning a Canon 6D would be very nice!

Sign up here for your chance as well: http://bit.ly/RWUHv2

Morning in Appleton,WI

Tried my hand at some landscape photography. It didn't go as well as I hoped but I did get some decent pictures.

I swear I will pack all my camera gear and have it with me always!

That's me on the left with my online gaming friends of 12+ years. Except for the bride and groom (center two people) this is the first time I have met them in person!

I brought my camera with me to my friend's wedding this past weekend because I only planed on taking a few pictures of the ceremony and those of my friends (see above). So I wasn't thiking of bringing my flash or extra filters (see here for my camera). However as we waited for the reception it was pointed out that the photogrpher for the wedding was not going to be there for the reception. So I was asked to take extra pictures (not by the wedding couple by another close friend guest).

It started out OK as I'm still getting use to the camera and taking better pictures in general. The room was really well lit for the dinner and cake cutting but once that was done they turned down the lights for dancing I wished right away I had my external flash with me. I only had the pop-up flash and after looking at a few pictures to check them out to see how the flash made things looked I was horrified!
That pop up flash really was bad when I needed a little more light and not wash out everyone in a blinding supernova that came from the front of my camera.

All in all the pictures still turned out decently and the happy couple will have memories of reception events that other people where not taking.

Grats Mari and Chris hope your honeymoon is going smooth and you are actually relaxing and NOT trying to check up on work!!!

New Camera, New Fun

 

So I got this new camera a while back (Canon SX40 HS) that I’ve tried to be more active with in taking pictures. Here is the camera:

Here are links to photos I’ve taken with it:
Cedarburg WI
Milwaukee County Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo-ala-Carte
Downtown Milwaukee WI

I’m really liking it and maybe next year I will upgrade to a full dSLR as my photo skill improve.