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Jeremy > March 22, 2009; Day 324. Fisheye Supper. Today Peter and I made a homemade turkey soup that was way better than the first one we made a few months ago. This time we refrigerated the broth overnight so that we could render the fat. Also, we cooked the noodles separately and controlled how much pasta was added. As you can imagine, that first soup was a greasy pasta dish. Tonight's was fresh turkey soup. What a difference. To accompany the soup I bought a pound of ground bison and we made burgers. Bison should not be overcooked and sadly, this burger is. Luckily I had seasoned the meat before cooking and that’s a slab of Vermont cheddar on top so it still was tasty. This was taken with the fisheye lens in an attempt to better my shot from yesterday. Didn’t happen, so I’ll be submitting that one to the class. Still this is a fun lens. That's Peter way over there in the distortion wing. Raw: Color Temperature: 2950K; Tint: +3 Raw: Fill Light: +22 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > March 21, 2009; Day 323. Jewell Grande. I joined my friends Mike, Glenn, and Brian for lunch today. We decided to dine at Jewell and the Beanstalk, a superb little restaurant in Manchester with some of the best ambiance and possibly the friendliest attitude in town. And the food's not bad either. Peter and I had previously been here a few times for breakfast. This is Brian posing with his sandwich without my even asking. This was obviously taken with a fisheye lens. It's the last assignment for Week 2 in my close-up photography class. The fisheye is actually great for closeups, but not so great for portraits. I’m using the D80 because my fisheye lens is for DX only. Someday I will get the 16mm FX fisheye but not before I get the 70-200mm f/2.8. The light is ambient. This might have been a good place for a little fill flash bounced off the ceiling, but I didn’t have my flash with me, and you have to be quick to catch Brian in a pose. So I used Photoshop to extract some fill light instead, and decided that the blown-out windows actually make the scene less busy. Glenn (whose hand you can see at far right) strong-armed me into revealing to the staff at this place that one of my long-time fantasies is to have a photo of mine hanging on their wall. Their reply: “Bring it to us. We’ll hang it for a month.” Sweet! Now I have to get busy. Thank you Glenn. I will submit this to the class if I don’t get a better fisheye shot tomorrow. Raw: Color Temperature: 4450K; Tint: -6 Raw: Recovery: +100 Raw: Fill Light: +25 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Crop: 7.5MP PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Curves adjustment for additional contrast PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > January 29, 2009; Day 272. Cookie Time. This is the fourth installment of my fisheye appliance series. Previously I captured my dishwasher, my dryer, and my refrigerator. The idea for this was shamelessly lifted from Bryan Peterson’s latest e-mail from the Perfect Picture School of Photography. He uses the e-mail mostly to plug the next round of courses, but he always includes a photography tip to ensure that we’ll open it. This month’s tip was photographing pizza coming out of the oven. His oven is electric, so he has the option to use a layer mask to create red-hot coils. Mine is a gas oven, so I’m using a makeshift red filter over the oven light to try to create some warmth. OK, I’ll give myself a little bit of credit for creativity. Honestly, the red hot coils look better, but I like this. How did I create a makeshift red filter? I recently bought a bundle of slim empty CD cases from Staples. Most are black except for a few that are colored. Two of these were made of red translucent plastic. I just taped them in place over the oven light. I love food photography, particularly once I’ve got my shot! UPDATE: Stephonie, you might be able to get this warm color if you use a flash with a red filter and diffuser on it, pointed towards the oven ceiling or back wall. It's worth a try. Also, those are scratch cookies from this recipe. (Scroll down to "Healthy Holiday Cookies." They're soft and tasty and not really that healthy, but they do not contain eggs, which means you can add the dough to ice cream for home made cookie dough ice cream! Hillary, pretend I didn't just say that!) PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur PS: Curves adjustment for Velvia effect PS: Burn Corners action (400 pixels around the frame)
Jeremy > November 25, 2008; Day 207. Hump Night. My friend Jeff is a master sanguine. He simply makes a phone call to a theater or a restaurant or a bowling alley, makes a reservation, and sends an e-mail. And then, POOF! Twelve people show up and the party is underway. I guess in Concord in late November, we’re all a little hard up for some entertainment. Bowling alleys are rich in photographic material. Motion, color, and lines are everywhere. And let’s face it, Tenpin bowling is way better than Candlepin, any day. The scores are higher, the pins look better, and the balls are lavish in color. This is my friend Bob who had a knack for hitting the strike “sweet spot” but only on his second shot! Thanks to everyone who posted comments on yesterday’s photo. Adorama e-mailed me tonight to say that they will send UPS to my house again to pick up the shipment for return. I will call them tomorrow to see if I can arrange that for Friday, since I will be home that day. In any case, it appears that they will take care of it and it won’t cost me anything to do this exchange. So whereas I still cannot fathom what is risky about my picking up a package at a UPS hub (since I have to show ID), I am open to having my faith at least partially restored in them, particularly if they take care of this. I expect to be shooting with the D700 on Thursday. Raw: Color Temperature: 3250K Raw: Exposure: +1.8 Raw: Recovery: +100 Raw: Saturation: +25 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > September 2, 2008; Day 123. Bereft! Asian style cabbage or orange juice for supper tonight? I subscribe to a photography blog that sends me a tip every day. Today’s tip was how to be a curious photographer. The example shot for Don’t be held Captive ‘the Rules’ [sic] was not all that different from my shot above. I hope that I tell a better story, though. This continues my fisheye appliance series, but with a twist (it’s a self portrait this time). I resumed the 20-mile daily training rides tonight. My time is down to 61 minutes, but I’m going to have to forget the 20 m.p.h. holy grail. I’m losing a least a minute of daylight every day, making it more difficult to see the stones on the shoulder, and a high-speed crash wouldn’t be a good idea this close to the ride. Hopefully I won’t have to change any more flats this month but at least I’ve done it enough times that I a little bit proficient. Still no training opportunities in the rain. PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > August 26, 2008; Day 116. This is the next in my household appliance fisheye series. I already captured the dishwasher back in June. (That shot will be improved when I have underwater housing for the camera someday.) The dryer begs for motion, so I threw in a multi-colored towel and an orange pillow case. Luckily, dryers are easily fooled into thinking that the door is closed so getting the motion was somewhat easy. The trick is to take a lot of shots so that you get one or two balanced ones that also tell you that you're inside a dryer. Tonight’s training ride was uneventful. I’ve shortened the mid-week rides to 20.2 miles. That took me 1 hour, 3 minutes tonight; I had a slight breeze to contend with. I still have not been able to train in the rain. Raw: Exposure: +1.0 Raw: Color Temperature: 7500 Raw: Saturation: +20 PS: Hue: -8
Jeremy > August 12, 2008; Day 102. Redemption! After yesterday’s caloric avalanche, I thought I’d better behave tonight. Uno’s has some very healthy choices if you know what to look for. Their steamed broccoli has virtually no butter in it, and their chicken breast with mango salsa is delicious and not oily. The breadstick I gave away. This was probably a 7 point dinner and no dessert. Order is restored in the universe. These are the regulars at our monthly book club meeting. Here again the flash is illuminating the subject but this time I want more ambient light. I wouldn’t mind a little more than this, actually, but I would have needed a tripod for that. Here a CTO filter, fitted over the strobe, would have helped keep my friends from turning so yellow. PS: Exposure: +0.5 PS: Saturation: +10 PS: Crop: ~8% PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > June 30, 2008; Day 59. Tonight I joined my friends at the Portsmouth Bowl-o-Rama (whose sign is so photogenic you can’t mess it up) for a few strings of candlepin. This is my friend Ozzie contemplating the skinny little pins. They sure look far away when viewed through a fisheye lens. I was raised in Indiana so I never experienced candlepin bowling until after college. I must say, as a guy who has his own 16-pound ball and who actually scored above 200 once in tenpin, I don’t much care for the little balls. I also don’t like the rule whereby if the ball goes in the gutter and yet manages to knock down pins, they don’t count. Nevertheless, I was thrilled to score a 62 tonight. (I only played one string…the rest of the evening was spent swapping lenses and filling up a 2GB card!) Raw: Exposure: +1 Raw: Fill light: +30 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Color Balance: +10 Yellow to Blue PS: Saturation: +10 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > June 23, 2008; Day 52. Another Monday, another evening with friends in Portsmouth. It was rainy with thunderstorms expected...perfect for several rounds of Uno. Uno combines the best of poker and Survivor…you win mostly by luck but also by cunning—getting your neighbors to thrash someone else with their crummy cards while accepting that you have no choice but to occasionally thrash them. I came in last place tonight; I blame luck. This is not my hand; my cards are in the pile at left. I'm somewhat wedged into place to take this shot and didn't notice how off my horizon was. I didn’t feel the need to fix this; the slanting horizon seems to fit this crowd nicely. The diffuse lighting is mostly coming from my external flash, attached on the hot shoe and pointed at the ceiling, angled slightly behind me. I needed a color balance adjustment to remove some of the green coming from the florescent bulbs. Raw: Exposure: +1.0 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Color Balance: -10 Magenta to Green; +5 Yellow to Blue PS: Saturation: +10 PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
March 22, 2009; Day 324.

Fisheye Supper.

Today Peter and I made a homemade turkey soup that was way better than the first one we made a few months ago. This time we refrigerated the broth overnight so that we could render the fat. Also, we cooked the noodles separately and controlled how much pasta was added. As you can imagine, that first soup was a greasy pasta dish. Tonight's was fresh turkey soup. What a difference.

To accompany the soup I bought a pound of ground bison and we made burgers. Bison should not be overcooked and sadly, this burger is. Luckily I had seasoned the meat before cooking and that’s a slab of Vermont cheddar on top so it still was tasty.

This was taken with the fisheye lens in an attempt to better my shot from yesterday. Didn’t happen, so I’ll be submitting that one to the class. Still this is a fun lens. That's Peter way over there in the distortion wing.

Raw: Color Temperature: 2950K; Tint: 3
Raw: Fill Light: 22
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity
PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > March 22, 2009; Day 324. Fisheye Supper. Today Peter and I made a homemade turkey soup that was way better than the first one we made a few months ago. This time we refrigerated the broth overnight so that we could render the fat. Also, we cooked the noodles separately and controlled how much pasta was added. As you can imagine, that first soup was a greasy pasta dish. Tonight's was fresh turkey soup. What a difference. To accompany the soup I bought a pound of ground bison and we made burgers. Bison should not be overcooked and sadly, this burger is. Luckily I had seasoned the meat before cooking and that’s a slab of Vermont cheddar on top so it still was tasty. This was taken with the fisheye lens in an attempt to better my shot from yesterday. Didn’t happen, so I’ll be submitting that one to the class. Still this is a fun lens. That's Peter way over there in the distortion wing. Raw: Color Temperature: 2950K; Tint: +3 Raw: Fill Light: +22 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
March 22, 2009; Day 324.

Fisheye Supper.

Today Peter and I made a homemade turkey soup that was way better than the first one we made a few months ago. This time we refrigerated the broth overnight so that we could render the fat. Also, we cooked the noodles separately and controlled how much pasta was added. As you can imagine, that first soup was a greasy pasta dish. Tonight's was fresh turkey soup. What a difference.

To accompany the soup I bought a pound of ground bison and we made burgers. Bison should not be overcooked and sadly, this burger is. Luckily I had seasoned the meat before cooking and that’s a slab of Vermont cheddar on top so it still was tasty.

This was taken with the fisheye lens in an attempt to better my shot from yesterday. Didn’t happen, so I’ll be submitting that one to the class. Still this is a fun lens. That's Peter way over there in the distortion wing.

Raw: Color Temperature: 2950K; Tint: 3
Raw: Fill Light: 22
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity
PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
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