“You can’t take pictures of our food” – Photo of the Day #44

January 27th, 2010 • photography
Tags: d90, food, nikon, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365

This is a nice spread of beets & ginger, alongside “vegan” pico de gallo at Whole Foods Boca Raton. People eat this stuff, I just like the pretty colors.

Now, what does the title have to do with anything? I almost got kicked out of the store for taking this photo! OF BEETS. If you don’t want people taking pics of insanely purple foods, don’t display them. This is the first time anyone has ever said anything to me about taking pictures of the food at Whole Foods. I must be giving away the secrets of how to make chopped beets mixed with ginger.

Nikon D90
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 @ f/3.2
ISO250 @ 1/50s

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All the pretty lights – Photo of the Day #43

January 27th, 2010 • 1 comment photography
Tags: d90, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365

This was an accidental treasure. I was coming home from picking up my Electro35 GSN prints and was sitting at a light. I set my 50mm lens to manual focus and dropped all the way to the closest focal length and snapped. This is what came out. I’ve very pleased with it, even if it was by luck. This was also a chilly night to be shooting!

The shaped blur at the bottom is a stream of cars a few seconds long.

Nikon D90
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
1/80

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Chemistry and nomnomnom – Photo of the Day #42

January 25th, 2010 • photography
Tags: funny, humor, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365, sidekick

This is a rather delightful drawing on one of the desks in SO250 at the FAU Boca Raton campus. Found it today when I went to Weather & Climate. I have no idea what this actually has to do with chemistry, but it’s funny as hell. I want to find more of these scattered around FAU’s campus.

Taken with my Sidekick LX 2008.

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A fantastic night – Photo of the Day #41

January 23rd, 2010 • photography
Tags: karaoke, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365

My girlfriend Jess and our best friend Kelly. I think they had just finished dancing/singing to either “Twist n Shout” or “Magic Capret Ride”, I don’t remember which. These were taken at Singers Karaoke Club in Pompano Beach, FL. An extremely fun night had by all.

Stats:
Nikon D90
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D AF
ISO200 @ 1/20
On-camera flash set to flash WB B1

Everyone loves a hug – Photo of the Day #40

January 21st, 2010 • photography
Tags: cute, d90, hugs, kitty, nikon, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365

I love this candid shot of Kitty sleeping with one of our mice cuddled up next to his head. The fact that it looks like it’s hugging him is so adorable.

Let’s all talk about nothing – Photo of the Day #39

January 20th, 2010 • photography
Tags: d90, nikon, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365, starbucks

These ladies were a great cadre of conversation tonight at our friendly Starbucks. They yapped almost endlessly the whole time we were there.

This is a lot more grainy than I wanted it to be as I was not paying attention to the fact that my lens was wide open at f/1.8 and introducing so much noise. I was more worried about why my remote wasn’t firing. Nikon, I like your wireless remote but PLEASE make these things work 360 degrees around the camera. having to be in front of it is absolutely stupid.

A mighty fine fire – Photo of the Day #38

January 20th, 2010 • photography
Tags: d90, lighter, nikon, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365

Took this on a whim in my bathroom with the lights off. The flame’s obviously not that big but I achieved a voluptuous flame by setting the camera to a 5 sec exposure and lightly blew on it from the left. I like the way it came out.

Fuzzy in blue – Photo of the Day #37

January 18th, 2010 • chatter
Tags: nikon, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365, signs, wowies

My beautiful girlfriend Jess from tonight’s visit to Wowies. I can’t remember if we were talking about eating too much or Australian Chippendales.

A lull in the conversation – Photo of the Day #36

January 17th, 2010 • photography
Tags: d90, nikon, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365, starbucks

I took this at the Starbucks in Mizner Park tonight and it was a random shot to get. I like the candidness of the photo but not the fact that the table is in the forefront! Couldn’t do much about that since the woman noticed that I was taking pictures of them and got kind of mad at me.

Tonight is the night I also noticed that I’ve developed my first hot pixel in my D90. It’s barely noticeable in the above photo but was a very prominent red dot in many of my other pictures from tonight, which really irks me. I understand it can happen frequently at high ISOs. However, I’ve noticed it from 200 to 1600, at very different ISOs and shutter speeds. It never reared its head until today and I will keep a close eye on it from now on. I read that this is very common problem with the D90, we’ve never had this problem with our weathered Casio EXILIM EXZ750.

Quick, make me a drink – Photo of the Day #35

January 17th, 2010 • photography
Tags: d90, irishmen, nikon, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project 365, project365

Quick candid shot of my friend Kelly behind the bar at the Irishmen, making up a new drink that she said tasted “good”. Then, about 6 hours later, I ask her if it was actually good and she said it was horrible. It was a mix of Grey Goose, Patron coffee-flavored tequila, and some Chambord. It sounded absolutely terrible from the get go.

This is the Project 365 photo for 16 January 2010.