I’m finding this is either really easy to do, or amazingly difficult.  How busy I am at work also plays a huge part in my output (obviously), and today was a very bad day at work.

I got home pretty late at night without any idea of what I was going to upload.  Abi had her gymnastics class earlier in the day and still had her leotard on and kindly offered to pose for me.  She rushed upstairs to wash her hair while I set up lights.

This was a three light shot, soft box in the front providing fill, gridded spot on her face as the key and a hair light behind.  Being only 8 Abi is not the best at keeping still and kept adopting “poses” for the images.  The shot below was my favorite facial expression but she did move slightly to her left (camera right) so you can see more of the hair light than planned.

That said I’m still happy with the portrait and need to thank her as she saved my bacon – day three and struggling (isn’t this what all New Year Resolutions are like?)

For Christmas Lisa got me some little camera’s that you stick on your monitor.  They look really realistic so I set up a little camera shoot for the Halo dudes:

So here we are day three and I’m having to work hard to find images 🙂 especially as I’m back at work. So this evening I decided to drive home via Kirkland’s waterfront and see what I could get. The sun was setting which created a beautiful sky but it was raining so I had to work fast.

A lot of people have asked if the images I capture are all HDR and I know everyone thinks that this image was heavily processed.  But surprisingly this is pretty much what came out of the camera.  The sky really was that blue and the orange from the lights was that strong.

Here is the image:

Being a big kindle user myself I thought if would be fun to see the Halo guys reading a Halo book, this was the result:

Today we went to the Museum of Flight in Boeing Field.

It’s a really cool day out and doesn’t cost too much – I’m not sure how they afford to keep the place going actually.  Anyway, I went in, camera in hand with a tripod and started shooting.  It was quite funny actually as there were loads of other photogs and they were giving me dirty looks as their clearly didn’t think they could bring in a tripod.

The museum has a number of exhibit areas, the largest of which is the main hall which is literally full of planes either on the floor or hanging from the ceiling.  One of the cooler (I think) areas is the war plane section.  It’s pretty dark in there so the tripod was a real necessity.  I was capturing images with exposure times of over a minute.

Today’s image is a Goodyear FG-1D Corsair.  It’s really cool with folded up wings and the colors in the room looked fab.

Dinner after the museum was at Claim Jumper where they have kids menu’s with cross word puzzles.  Hence the image below:

So here we are day 1.

As I live in Seattle (well Redmond which is down the road – kind of), I thought I would start the year with a Space Needle shot.

Not much to say here, I dragged the family out of the house (with a visiting niece) and hit down town.  There were too many people there taking pictures so I couldn’t go for a wide shot so this it pretty tight.

Anyway here is the image:

And following the recent post on my updated New Year’s resolution, here is the “Fun” image…

To make the resolution fun, I have decided to post two images a day – yeah I know I’m mad!

The first is a serious attempt at photograph, portraits, landscapes, you know, the usual “stuff”.

The second is a fun image, something people shouldn’t take too seriously.

So what’s the fun image about?

Well for Christmas, Santa brought me three Halo soldier action figures, ok I got them myself but in my defense there was a motive (it’s not like I like playing with toy soldiers or anything!)

The idea is I put these Halo dudes in “funny” situations and take a shot.

Now as I write this I’m actually cringing, as it sound’s really lame, but I have some ideas so let’s see how this pans out.

So to summarize, expect two pictures a day, a serious one, and a fun one.