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Archive for October, 2008

Yeah, I’ve got that itch again and no amount of cream is going to make it go away .

I really would like to “take it up a notch” with my picture taking and get back into taking action shots of the kids playing sports (soccer, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, etc.).

In today’s installment of “picture taking 101″, I will discuss WAY OVER THINKING whether or not a shot looks good SOOC (Straight Out Of the Camera).

I went for a little ride today with my trusty Nikon D70 to take a few pictures of this week’s theme “close ups”.  I wasn’t as diligent as I probably could have been, but I found a pond on my travels and took the following picture:

This is going to make me crazy…

Not only am I having issues printing stuff I have “color correction” issues as well. This is something I’ve known about for a while. I use a MacBook Pro for my main computer, with a second display. Forget about getting both displays to look the same… I’ve tried, and I cannot manually get the job done.

My interest in photography has recently been re-sparked and I’m really enjoying it.  As seen on my website Dig Our Pics!, you can see that we have a nice little “club” where we take pictures based on a weekly theme.

We went to the Big-E this year, and Careerbuilder.com had a booth set up with a contest to win a getaway. From their website:

Just a heads up…the contest has been extended until October 15th!

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