04.02.14 iPhone Challenge-Frog

April 2, 2014 – iPhone Challenge – Kermit

04.02.14 iPhone Challenge-Frog

Ok, so it’s not really Kermit the frog, but it didn’t give me it’s name so perhaps…

I was sitting, watching TV tonight, when I noticed this little guy on the door that leads out to my deck and thought he wanted to be photographed. I got up and turned on the outside light, moved in close with my iPhone, got it framed and in focus finally, ready to take the picture and he jumped off the door. Go figure I thought and I went back to set down. After a few minutes it was back on the door! I repeated the above three times, before Kermit stayed put long enough for me to get his picture. I don’t have a closeup lens for my iPhone, so I was pushing the limits on how close it would focus, but still, not a bad shot or story I guess.

Sometimes you have to be persistent when it comes to capturing the picture you want. If you don’t like what you’re getting, try coming back again or at different times of the day. Keep clicking!

Photo was shot with the iPhone 5s using the square format and processed in the Snapseed App.

03.2014 Film Challenge-People

March 2014 – Film Photography Challenge – People

03.2014 Film Challenge-People

This month’s film challenge photo is of veterans Ronnie Winstead and his son-in-law Terry Trapp here in Madisonville, Ky. The two are subjects in my Veterans Portrait series I’m working on and after I finished photographing them with my Nikon D800 for the project I shot this photo of them outside, along with Terry’s daughters, I think. Either way the girls were gracious enough to hold the flag for my pictures, which helped to make the picture.

I shot this with my “Lomography Sprocket Rocket” which is a 35mm plastic camera that will allow you to shoot photos that include the sprocket holes of the film as part of the photograph, in panoramic format. Focus is basically two choices, close and far, set shutter speed, not sure what it is though as the f/stop is either cloudy or sunny. I’m guessing about 1/125th of a sec at f/16. Lens is built in and plastic. To learn more visit their website at http://shop.lomography.com/us/cameras/sprocket-rocket-family

Post processing: Film scanned using Silverfast 8 interface and then opened in Photoshop as a RAW file and edited in the RAW plug-in before opening in Photoshop. I then did some dodging and burning and fine tuning in Topaz Adjust.