April 2011 Potluck

Does Rich greet every guest this way? Yes he does.

This is the "before" photo.

Overflow seating in the garage!

This was a fun shot to take. A little flash to get Bruce's face in focus, but a long shutter drag to blur the background. Since you can see the fridge through Bruce's jacket, he moved too. I switched to black and white because a lot of this image is overexposed (and yellow).

Fred (behind me) was concerned that I wouldn't be in any of the shots, so I pointed the camera on myself. I half expected him to crouch down low to get into this one!

A half-sheet cake for Steve. I didn't know that you can get cake candle holders now.

Poor Steve has a cold so he didn't blow out his candles. He waved a piece of cardboard instead, and it worked.

Fun with translucent desserts: the macro shot at f/45. Micha suggested an entire series of these, using Jell-Os of each color of the rainbow. I may do just that!

Note to self: bottom lighting does not make good portraits!

Here I've shot Brian in solely ambient light without a tripod in a dark corner of the house. Pretty good lens, the 24mm f/1.4.

Now I've switched to the 70-200mm "in your face" lens. These shots are not cropped!