Thursday, April 29, 2010

Photo of the Week 4/26/10

I took this picture for my mother who knitted the sweaters that these two daughters of a family friend are wearing. It is actually a small world story as the grandmother of these two girls was my parents realtor when they moved to Lake Forest, IL in the mid-90s then I later went to college with the mother of the girls in the picture. Finally, my parents ended up moving to the same street on Long Island as the mother her husband and the two girls did within a couple months of each other. Anyway, I liked the picture enough to make it my choice for my Photo of the Week. This image was captured using my Nikor 50mm f1.4 lens at an exposure of 1/60th of a second, aperture of 3.2, and ISO 400.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Photo of the Week 4/19/10

After a bit of a break, I am resuming posting my photo of the week. I captured this image of my young friend Grant blowing out the candles on his third birthday a little over a week ago. This image was captured using my Nikon D700 and my 50mm f1.4 lens and using only the light from the candles at an aperture of f5.6 and shutter speed of 1/100th of a second at an ISO of 2000. Given the high ISO I also utilized noise reduction software in the post-processing of the image.