These photos are credited to Steve Hardman with post processing by me. I wanted to post them here though because they are of some of my guitar students at a recital when I was teaching guitar and they're fun.

My wife asked me to post the picture I use under the blog header so it could be seen clearly. So here it is:



This was taken in a practically pitch black room with an f4 lens (widest I had at the time) the shutter set to 30 seconds and the ISO all the way up (I think 3200). It was still pretty dark so I had to boost it after the fact and then applied noise filtering. Other than that, it's unaltered. It's an interesting photo I think. Particularly in the fact that it doesn't really look like a photo but like an impressionistic painting or something. Kind of fun.

Did a puppy photoshoot for my mother's new pug a few years back. We were playing around with the blocks and then someone decided to use my napping father in the letter-block adventure. Of course I couldn't help but snap a quick picture of it.

Someone commented that this looks like a picture of young moms (Though, whereas one of them is like 10, that would be pretty scary). I wanted to point out that not one of them was a mother in this picture. These are all aunts or cousins (or sisters, in the case of the younger one) of the babies.

This picture was a quick snapshot with a point-and-shoot camera right after my wife cut all her hair off. It was a nice picture, but is pretty heavilly photoshopped to add the 'glamour' factor to it. The kitchen she was in wasn't the best background for it, so I added some light and then blew the highlights of the picture so only her face came through, then did the standard glamour retouching, etc., etc...

I always kind of prefer pictures that are candid. This one isn't necessarilly candid (someone yelled, "go crazy!" just before it was snapped - so it's more of a posed madness than a candid shot), but I still like it better than all of the traditional 'everybody-say-cheese' ones that were taken.

85mm f1.2. What a lens! All taken sans flash. The first one's a bit fuzzy (and I added a texture to it to 'art' it up a bit more...though I must say it's my least favorite of these. For some reason we never got a good one of her this time around though.)

Not the kind of picture you'd necessarilly want on your wall. But fun, particularly if you know the boy. He's a silly guy, but a hoot!

Our doggy, Henri (short for Henrietta (yes, she's a girl doggy)), LOVES to climb in the tub. Weirdo. Anyhow, I don't know if the painting filter adds anything to it, but it's all in fun.

Quick test shot with a Canon 50mm f1.4 I'd borrowed. It overexposed a bit and is a bit soft (well, I was shooting wide open, so what did I expect), but overall not too bad. It didn't make me desperate to own one though. The blown up version (click on the image) is significantly nicer than the smaller in my opinion though. You can't see the detail of the picture (blown highlights and all) in the smaller version. (And yes, even with the overexposure (which was no biggie because I was shooting RAW), I blew some of the highlights on purpose in post processing)