Cute Kids + Free Time = NOT Productive.

I got to spend some time with Derek and Heather and since their son is basically a 100% guaranteed good photo almost every time, I brought the camera along. Today I'm feeling really glad that I kept the camera since I got some good shots here and some decent ones at my staff luncheon (on picasa page). I'm starting to remember some of the things I loved about photography back in the day (and some things I didn't love).

Digital cameras that take 3 shots per second are a little bit of a new experience too. When you don't have to pay for film, you just shoot away. That can get a little out of control, I snapped 370 shots at the lunch, which leads to about an hour of photo throwaways later in the evening. Worth it to learn, still better to be able to get the good shots the first time round. I don't know if I'm allowed to take pictures of my friends and then post them on my blog, but here are some of those below!

Photo Lessons Re-Learned:

• When you shoot white backgrounds with direct sunlight behind you overexpose or everything turns blue-ish.
  
• Apparently Google Picasa knows how to fix this.
  
• All the really cool little settings on a camera like "portrait lady" and "sports guy" and "landscape" are worthless.
  
• At 1/500s most things freeze but not everything, especially not jump ropes.
  

gold star for buddy.

something about this photo is right for me. Even though mom is out of focus and kid isn't looking at the camera and dad has a weird look on his face. I dunno, it just works for me for some reason. I've come back to it 4 times now and I like it.

He's so expressive.

note: light source behind photographer not subject

Btw – if you're looking at these on my picasa page, if you full screen your browser (f11) they get bigger