excitement
I’ve got a lot to do these days, now that I’m on vacation from my real job for a couple of weeks, and I’m really excited. There are just a few reasons for me to be excited (in order of occurrence):
- A beautiful wedding at a Wamego church.
- A fun wedding at a B&B that eventually got stormed out and relocated.
- A really fun newborn shoot for a friend at their farm.
- An engagement session for my first solo wedding (coming at the end of the summer)
- Another newborn shoot for a friend at my studio house.
Yeah, I’ll be busy for the next few days, but that means that you guys will get to see some fun stuff coming up, so stay tuned!
And, since this is a photoblog, a picture from a recent church event at City Park.
exciting news
Can you see that little photo credit there? Yeah, that’s my name. I was so excited this week to receive a copy of The Sailor’s Book of the Weather, by Simon Keeling, and finally see one of my pictures in something that I didn’t pay to print.
It’s a fun feeling.
The publisher was searching flickr for a picture illustrating centrifugal force when she found mine and liked it enough to ask if she could use it. A pleasant side effect of having my pictures online.
In case you can’t see it, here’s the original picture they used in the publication:
I shot this in November, 2006 with our old 3.1 MP point-and-shoot digital camera, so I’m not too sure about the settings, but here’s what the camera recorded on the picture:
ISO 100, 1/14s, f3.7, 10.9mm
The slow shutter speed (1/14s) is what’s producing the motion blur over most of the picture. The reason that the hand and bar are in (reasonable) focus is because I was panning, moving my camera from side to side, as I took the picture. It’s a really fun technique that you can use with any moving object with sometimes very surprising results.
