June 4, 2008 Sugar Snap Pea In an effort to increase my collection of stock photos, I found some sugar snap peas in my fridge, and had some fun for 15 mins. I'm not too fond of the light in these shots. It's actually a combination of my incandescent desk lamp as back light, and my 430EX as fill light. It ended up with some weird color temps which I attempted to fix a little in post. In this particular shot, I wish I had more DoF to make all the little peas a little more in focus, but I also think that the blurry peas kind of add a little, uh, mystery... (is mystery the word I'm looking for?) However, I do like that the little fuzzies are sharp. Here's a few more shots of the beans. And thanks for all your kind comments on my puppy pic yesterday.
June 3, 2008 Bailey's growing up. He's 3 months old now. I needed a picture for the day, and I happened to be dogsitting for the day. The obvious choice was to be lazy and just take a picture of the Puppy. Here's Bailey's Gallery with some more shots.
June 1, 2008 My Desk I didn't have the time or motivation to take any exciting shots today, so you get a picture of my desk. I've seen a lot of these shots on the DP community over the past year, so I thought I'd contribute. About my desk... The desk was actually a set piece in a show called "Boris Godunov." Here's an article about the show at Princeton Univ and some photos of the set which included 150 22' Bungee Cords. I can't even begin to tell you how fun the bungees were! Unfortunately, the desk is not pictured in that article... ANYHOW, I took the desk and refinished the top. On my desk, there's a random assortment of things, including: Laptop, mouse, a file folder with my apartment lease in it (long story), bear saw, nail set (from the spice rack I built last week), Miller Lite Hat (True Pilsner Taste...), cat treats (to throw at them, so they stop sitting on my keyboard), external hard drive (where my pictures are stored), a hackle (for future photo-ops), modem, router, eyeglass case, mouse charger, pencil cups, lamp, pencil sharpener, and a Pilsner Urquell Coaster. Did I miss anything? The empty spot on the upper right of the desk is empty because that's where Dynamo has to lay and watch me work. He will push everything off the desk, if I don't keep it clear for him.
