Day #31 - Orange
Boy #1 wearing his 2nd favorite color- orange 
ISO 400 - f/2 - 1/100
Wednesday,
January
31,
2007
Day #30 - Tubby Time
Played w/the custom exposure and white balance while the kids took a bath. Their bathroom is VERY yellow- like rubber duckie yellow, so the color cast in their is always awful. Doing the custom exposure/WB helped- but since it’s a white tub anyway- I liked it better in b+w It is amazing how much less noise their is w/the custom settings. THANKS again Tara for your histogram lesson w/b+ws and high ISOs
ISO- 1600
SS- 1/160
Ap- 2.0
Wednesday,
January
31,
2007
Day #29 -Basillica at Night
Coming home late I realized I hadn’t taken a photo yet! So being the geek that I am now, I had my camera in my bag, so I snapped this while driving down the interstate. lol
Needless to say it wasn’t all that in focus since it was so dark- so I ran a filter on it- watercolor filter. I like how it turned out, despite the boring composition.
ISO 1600 - f/1.8- 1/25
Oh- and it’s the Basillica in Minneapolis
Tuesday,
January
30,
2007
I’ve been tagged by Gina :)
The rules are to list 6 weird things about myself and then tag 6 people to do the same.
1-I HATE the smell of bleach- it makes me gag.
2-I am in my 30s but yet love teen-targeted TV (Degrassi, The Hills, old 90120 reruns, etc)
3-I didn’t need braces and I’ve never had a cavity 
4- But I have a reoccuring nightmare about loose teeth falling out.
5- I have horrible balance- I fall down if I stand with my eyes closed
6- I hate olives, but love pickles. My DH is the exact opposite. Our kids love both.
Tuesday,
January
30,
2007
Day #28 - Circles
My picture for the “Weekly Challenge” which is “Circles” this week. So…anyone know what it is?! I’ll give a hint- the last number on this “thing” is 25. I like how his turned out- I once again used my grey card to set the exposure and CWB. And I focused on my lucky number for the photo ISO 100 ; f/2 ; SS 1/400
THE ANSWER : Ariana you were right- it is a Christmas countdown thing…it’s called an Advent Box. It’s numbered 1-25. Each knob is for a little door- each door is like 2″x2″ and about 2″ deep. In the month of December each day I stick a little note in the door telling what we’ll be doing special that day. Things like “Bake cookies” “Read ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’” etc. Every morning the kids look forward to opening the next door to see what’s in store for us that day I’ve always had a version of this throughout my childhood, my old one was hand painted w/little pictures on each door. As a kid it was a wall chart w/pockets. I found this at Target 2yrs ago and fell in love w/the look and design.
Louisa your guess made me giggle
Monday,
January
29,
2007
Day #27 - Car Sleeping
Busy day- Boy #1 fell asleep in the car, and since I brought my camera along…
Sunday,
January
28,
2007
Day #26 - Grey Card Exposure
I finally decided to break out the gray card I bought a few weeks back. I used it to both set the exposure AND the CWB. WOW…… the color and skin tone is SPOT on!! All 3 of these pics are SOOC except for cropping/border. I didn’t sharpen for the web, so they are flatter than IRL.
My kids weren’t much in a photo mood- as Boy #2 and The Girl both had some 24hr flu bug today 
Thankfully at age 4 they are pretty good about being sick though- all they want is a cozy place to watch TV and snuggle in
Thankfully at age 4 they are pretty good about being sick though- all they want is a cozy place to watch TV and snuggle in
I’ll be playing more with this idea- one thing about our house is that we LOVE color, so our rooms are all painted different and bright/dark colors- so color casting is an issue in several of the rooms. So now I’ll have to try the grey card thing in all the rooms and see what difference it makes
Still on an all natural light- no flash- kick. This month being forced to mess with ISOs has been rather liberating. I’m no longer afraid of high ISOs!
Saturday,
January
27,
2007
Day #25 -Toe anyone?
When sucking your thumb just isn’t enough.
Gross I know.
She also bites her toenails (and her fingernails)
She thinks this picture is VERY funny
Thankfully- this is a RARE occasion.
The thumbsucking however, is not.
ISO 100
SS 1/50
F/2.2
Friday,
January
26,
2007
Day #24 Still Lifes
Icky day today- so took some pics of things around my house. These 2 were my favorite- the 1st was taken outside and b+w converted. I love the bokeh on the 1st and something about the angle on the 2nd- I was laying down, shooting from under it.1st one: ISO 100, f/2 , 1/200 2nd: ISO 400, f/2.2, 1/80
Wednesday,
January
24,
2007
Day #23 Hanna Girl
Nothing too exciting- it was the end of a busy day. I scored some good deals at Hanna and The Girl loves her new hat and mittens. ISO 1600.
Wednesday,
January
24,
2007
Day #22 - Surrender
This is what happens when it’s 11:50pm and you realize you forgot to pick up your camera that day cause you were so busy! This is how he spends the majority of his day. We surrendered the furniture downstairs to him a long time ago
I think my theme this month should be no flash and high ISO! ISO 1600, with custom WB. I’m really digging the difference a CWB can make!
Tuesday,
January
23,
2007
Day #21- Fresh snow!
Fresh snow! Some pics of my furbaby and Boy#1.
Super cloudy day, since it was SNOWING lol
lol Hmmmm they look much more red here than they did in PS…. color is SOOC, so the WB must have been off.
Sunday,
January
21,
2007
Day #20 - Little D :)
The face for the baby feet in Day #10. Isn’t he cute? Again high ISO- 1600. Taken at night with no flash of course
Sunday,
January
21,
2007
Day #19 - Glow Sticks
Okay- bizarre photo I know. My kids got some of those gel light things- the ones you crack and shake and they glow? Well- they were playing with them in the dark living room- so I set the camera to ‘bulb’ to capture them spinning them around. I thought it was kinda cool - esp since you can’t see them holding them at all. I’d never used the bulb shutterspeed before.
Friday,
January
19,
2007
Day #18 - Zebra Girl
Still playing w/my 50mm on a daily basis to adjust to winter light.
This is the twin sister to Day #11 She has the most gorgeous eyelashes!
Thursday,
January
18,
2007