Christmas photo contest

This is my picture for this contest. Seems like paper is always in the air during the frantic gift opening Christmas morning.

Photo Contest

Since its Christmas time we are going to make this one a Christmas theme. 1-2 pictures of Christmas at a different angle. Use perspective to show Christmas. I don't just want a picture of a tree or some lights. Maybe some close ups or looking through a tree. The key is interesting Perspective. Deadline Monday Dec 17th. Since this is Christmas the winner will get a gift and I will let my wife wrap it so it looks good. 

The picture above is a great example from Ashley and if she submits this the bar for this challenge will be set high.

send them to breeeez at gmail dot com

Daft Punks

I have always enjoyed the Daft Punks but this video has to be one of the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. It just goes to show that you dont need millions of $$$ to make a great video just be creative.

Make sure you watch to the end its crazy how fast it gets

Im Baaaack New Challenge

This one is a week in the life of you. 7 pictures, one each day for 7 days. 7 pictures to show the world who you are and what your about. The due date on this will be November 16.

This is COOL!

Silver Brickwall LEGO Ring
We love LEGOs, and in honor of their recent 75th anniversary, we thought we'd mention this Silver Brickwall LEGO Ring ($80). The sterling silver ring features the familiar 2x2 LEGO pattern, and comes with six different color pieces to snap to the ring, adding versatility to an already cool package. (Thanks Uncrate)

And the Winner is........

John wins with the best out of all the pictures sent to me. Sorry no more extensionson this one.

I love Kristy

Our last day at the beach it was a great end to a great trip.

Date change

we are going to push this back to the 23rd of July. Its a long one but with my vacation and everyone else going out of town I think its best.

First Ghost from John

Love this one John

New Challenge

Jill requested a new challenge and I just so happened to be thinking of one for the past few weeks.
Subject: Ghost
Due: July 5th
Desc: this can be done with photoshop or a timed exposure(It could be done one other way but I will wait and see if anyone figures out the other way to do this). If you need more help than that let me know.

OUCH!

What a mess! This was our bathroom and some day with a little luck will be again.

Cake Face

Typical night with the peterson's. After this Kristy tried to get him back and Joe had a melt down. I wish I had video of that.

WTF

Why do I see Cami purchasing these as soon as she sees this? Sorry Cami not to be mean but I thought of you the second I saw this trash bag.

Top 10 Mac OS X tweaks

This is for all the Mac fans out there. Sorry if you are reading this and don't have a Mac maybe some day you too can have a computer that doesn't suck!


Check out this link to Lifehacker they have some great ideas

Mac OS X is a great operating system out of the box, but a few simple customizations can make it even better. OS X ships with some odd and sometimes inconvenient default settings, and it's got a few nifty little perks for power users who enable them, no third-party software required

Guess Who I Ran Into Today?

With Easter just around the corner I thought it would be fitting to post this picture to remind everyone about the true meaning of Easter.






Wait for it..........

Dead Bunnies!

Bits and Pieces

No easy way to explain this so above is an example of our next project. Due date Sunday April 8th. For this one I did it the old fashioned way. Real film, Dark room, Scissors and glue. The idea is to take allot of Little pictures and piece them together. This can be done by printing them as a contact sheet putting them all together and taking a picture, or for the more computer literate of us this can be done in Photoshop.
I had a friend at ASU that did this with his bike and a copy machine. He then put the life size picture of his beloved bike on the wall. It was pretty cool at the time.

A Series of Shapes

This will end Friday. Next weeks will be a free for all submit your best 2 pictures. I will be out of town all of next week so I will try to get something but cant make any promises.

Jon pics

Lines

All of the pictures are plants or trees with a little help from Photo Shop. Some are a little hard to see but all contain some straight lines.

This one is a vine even though it looks like a bloody heat.

Kristy's second admit

Diamond

Triangle

Circle

Square

Kristy's Shapes

Circles

Circle

Triangle

Rectangle


Square

Ovals

Square

How to Make a Killer Photo using 8 Simple Composition Rules

I have been trying to teach Kristy about this but she doesn't like me teaching her so here you go.

Rule of Thirds
This “rule” applies for everything: landscape, macro and portraits, but exception would be the classic portrait. This means that instead of placing the subject (main focus of interest) in the centre of the frame put it on an intersection of the thirds. For me it is much simple to consider this “mind drawing” where my subject is placed either in point 1 or 2 or 3 or 4:



Cropping
Sometimes cropping a subject to make the viewer focus on some specific detail is an extremely good idea. But other times, when it’s not about details, it’s good to have the entire subject inside the picture and don’t take a shoot as if the subject is just about to leave, but rather just about to come if it is not standing. If you are in hurry or not so sure about what you want and you also got a high megapixel camera, you can afford thinking about cropping after shooting in the post-editing process. Otherwise, get closer and if getting closer will scare away your subject (hehe) then use your zoom.

To see the rest check out the link below.

http://www.photoaxe.com/composition-in-photography/

Parts pf a whole winner

Well it looks like Holly won this one with the piano. Congratulations Holly! Now you can brag to the world of your photo artistic abilities for a whole week.

Parts of a Whole Winner

Please vote for you favorite 2 in this post and I will declare the winner on Monday

New Challenge

A Series of Shapes

You may shoot a series of one shape, or a series of different shapes all from the same category. For instance 3 different circles you find, or 4 different shapes that are all childrens toys,etc... 5 total pictures, 3 minimum.

Holly

Jim

Here is mine.

Dr Plum in the library with the candlestick holder!!

John's Post

Ashley

Hoop


Window


Sucka

Kristy's Photos

Yes, she has a few more than allowed, but at least she submitted something.












All of these "parts" make a "whole" lot of Happy!