Day 217

It looks like a kinda rough day around Scrivnerburg…Kristi looks exhausted…

…and Caleb is unglued about a tiny scratch on his finger…

(btw, I used off-camera flash for these – first time in weeks! bare flash, 1/16 power) 

Day 190

I just discovered that I can do High Speed Syncing with my flashes! I didn’t know that’s what the little H and flash symbol meant! (I don’t have manuals for either flash.) So today I went outside and tried some off-camera flash stuff with high speed sync. I watched this great video…

http://www.stansphotos.com/My%20Videos/Lighting_Tutorial.wmv

and he explains that in order to get the darkened background (even in daylight) you must increase your shutter speed. I did so, but I didn’t see any significant difference in my background. Why not? (Eric, that question is probably for you.) What am I doing wrong?

Anyway, I got a few cute shots of my willing models…

(This shot has my new favorite script run on it at about 50% opacity.)

This shot was not done outdoors or with ocf…but this little lady manages to be unbelievably adorable even with rumpled hair and dirty pajamas! How does she do that?

Day 148

This has nothing to do with my 365, but I have to brag on Verizon Wireless for a minute. I've been a Verizon customer for over 10 years, and I've always been satisfied with them. But now I'm all the way up to "very pleased" with them. I bought my awesome new phone through the Verizon website last week, and I paid the website price for it. Yesterday I discovered a piece of mail from Verizon that I hadn't looked at, and it showed a different price for my phone - 50% less than I paid! So I called them today, and they credited the difference to my account! Yay Verizon!! That means that I got a great deal on an amazing phone, and my bill for April will be considerably less. Whoohoo!!

Okay...on to the regularly scheduled program...

I was working on off-camera flash again today. I'm not really happy with what I got, but I'm gonna keep working on it. I think part of my dissatisfaction has to do with using the Rebel XT instead of the 20d. I hope so, anyway.

Day 129

Once again I was out practicing with my flash and umbrella in my front yard. Yes, people stare as they drive by. Some smile indulgently. Some even laugh. One older woman craned her neck around to keep her eyes on what was going on in our front yard. I don't mind being gawked at. Maybe they'll come to me when they need a photo done.

Day 122

I decided to try using my flash off camera outdoors again. This time it was at dusk with my flash mounted on a lightstand, and shot through and umbrella. Three of my boys were quite willing to sit for me! Yay!

By the time I got to this shot it was getting really dark.