What to do when it snows in April and you need a break from studying for finals

Yah, so pretty much exactly like the title says. We're almost halfway through April. And it snows. At least it was snowman snow. Raided the fridge for a carrot and some broccoli florets. First pictures I've taken in a long time, and they're snapshots. I think I'm saving myself up for the summer or something.

Now it's back to bio. Four finals to conquer this semester.

Happy winter (oops, it's spring) everyone!

Star Trails

Hmm, hope you can see this on your monitors. So HDR seems to be the rage at the moment in some areas of cyber photo land, and while I haven't had the chance to try it out for real, I used the HDR option to stack two long exposure night shots to see what would happen

I got my star trails. Yah! I also got noise. Hoorah for noise ninja! Anyways, as you can see, I have no clue what I'm doing. I have a friend who will be trying out more of this stuff with me sometime next year, so let hope we have good weather!

If your in the east, happy non-white holidays!

30 second exposure up in the country. no ND filter (on my wish list). The sun ahd basically gone down when I took this. Little bit of PP to bring up the water and enhance the sky

Now, who wants to help me remeber the names of all the components of a splicesome?

Fishy!

My lab professor is one fo the co-teachers of a course I'm taking in the fall. It's basically an intensive lab course that will cover things like data collection and statsitcal analysis and stuff. It should be a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to it.

For this course, they felt that it would be nice to have pictures of the fishes that would be used in one of the labs, so they asked me to come and shoot the fishies in their aquariums. I splurged and got a circular polarizer for this to try and reduce the reflections. It made a huge difference, and I now have a kick ass polarizer and step up rings for all my favorite lenses.

Anyways, here is a picture :-D

The End of the Road

Well, it's a little earlier than I said, but I think it's time for me to hang up my shoes and pronounce the end of my PAD. I may post occasionally, but don't hold your breath. I've ended up with some end of the summer projects, and I'm finding posting a PAD not nearly as enjoyable as it once was.

I've learnt a heck of a lot posting, experimenting with PP techniques, and checking out everyone elses PAD projects, and I intend to keep persuing those who are still going.

Kudos to those who are still going!

I figure 7 1/2 months out of 12 isn't to shabby!

Until the next time,
Cheers!

226:

Old shot I recently got around to processing for stock. It's a sunset in Charleston, SC from a year ago.

225: Vitamin E

Vitamin E pills and bottle. I used to take it because they said VItamin E would help accelerate muscle repair or something like that. Then, several years later, another study said that to much Vitamin E was really bad for you. I eat fairly well, and I take a multi-vitamin, so I've stopped taking the extra vitamin E. I'm glad I've finally been able to do something with the leftovers!

The capsules also are very good for deep moisturizing. I would occasionally get nasty dry skin splits in the winter (especially when dancing bare foot a lot) and popping one of these and putting it on seemed to help...

224: Spider

I

will

make

a

little

lead

in

because

I know

some people

can't stand

spiders...

So this was a hairy spider my boyfriend found and caught for me.

I have a confession to make. I went against all ethics on shooting bugs and decided to stick it in the freezer to chill it so it would be sluggish. My boyfriend had told me it was a fast guy. Unfortunately, it worked a little to well. So, for those of you who think I was un-ethical and should be reprimended for what I did, have at me. I apologize.

I did put the spider back outside so it could be put back into the cycle of life somehow.

That being said, I REALLY wish I had one of those kick-butt macro lenses, or reversing rings or extension tubes or something as he had very cool eyes and stuff.

Click for a larger and hairier view

223: Stock Shot

Another stock shot.

222: Doofus

I'm jsut being a doofus...

221: John and a chair

This is John, the guy who too the me and a chair shot. We had lots of fun doing this!! You've seen him before when I've posted stuff from the studio shoots!

220: Me and a Chair

FINALLY! This is the one shot I've been wanting to do for a really long time.

This is a continuation of my mainly unsuccesful project to take pictures of me in chairs in different places.

I had my friend, John, help me out with this. We had tons of fun doing this, and we just may go back because we tried to do slow shutter stuff but they were to blurry without a tripod

219: Stock Shot

Well, this would have been a stock shot, but Blogger doesn't like me again :-(

Edit: Ok. Blogger likes me

I've recently decided to try my hand at stock photography. I've also decided to go straight for macro stock. Basically (in a nutshell), microstock is where images get sold royalty free for 1-10 dollars, and you make about 20 cents a download. Macrostock is where pictures go for much more (sometimes thousands) and the photographer makes more money per download.

So, there was a request for a bottle of club soda. However, you aren't allowed to have anything trademarked on it, so I added my own swank CS where a big 'ol trademarked logo normally was!

And just a side note, I'm going to be stopping uploading a picture a day starting in September when I go back to school. I will still post occasionally, but Blogger has been giving me problems at least once a week, and I've got a busy semester ahead.

218: Summer Rain

Ahhh summer. I was waiting for the bus and it was a classic summer rain. As you can see, the sun is shining on the lower field at McGill as it is being inundated with summer rain. The rain didn't last long at all. I got about three shots before the bus showed up and by the time I put my camera away it was over. Click the picture for a larger shower.

217: Jackie and Mel

Jackie is also working in the lab I am volunteering in, and you've already met Mel. We were just having lots of fun!

216: Melanie and Villie

This is Melanie and Villie. They are both working in the lab I am volunteering in, and we all have lots of fun!

215: Family

My boyfriend, myself, my dad, and his wife on a hike we went on when they were visiting Montreal in July. I felt bad because I said it was just going to be like a steep walk. It was a small hike, but we all enjoyed ourselves and had a great time. Taken with my tripod and my very cool remote!

214: Stupid Biters

As we all know, summer brings fabulous things. Beers on a terrace, lazy weekends hanging out and reading, sunny days, long evenings, and other little luxuries. They also bring silly things like mosquitos and blackflies! So, one got in our apartment, and bit someone (most likely me since they always seem to go for me and not my boyfriend). It was buzzing around, so I smacked it on the wall. Blech

213: Soccer

I apologize for the gap. I tried to fill in yesterday, and Blogger was being unco-operative, so I gave up. I am lazy this morning, so I've decided to skip the weekend.

My apologies


I shot my boyfriend's soccer game again a week or two ago, and have finally gone through and converted and sorted the pictures. Can I just mention how much I love my 4gig compact flash card?!!? I can now shoot RAW to my heart's content! I love it!!!

Minimal PP on this one. Some quick RAW stuff and then a resize and save for web.

So the jungle gym has been a huge hit, for kids and adults alike!

209: Liam III

My friend's adorable little boy! Everytime I see him he's changed so much. It's amazing how fast kids grow up!

I'll see everybody on Monday!