Photo A Day-2011
J wanted to get dressed up today to dance! Luckily I was able to grab a few snaps during the twirls!
10-16-2011
Who knew they had Ninja Lego Sets!?! The Ninjas were saving the princess from the boned monster! Thanks to Reece for this creation tonight!
Ok these are my kitchen lights and I dreamed up an idea for a rim of light.. Well this is it... :)
10-18-2011
Came back from lunch today to find one of my employees enjoying the sun! I liked the shadows and colors... Taken and edited on an iPhone 4s
J showing off her castles in her princess skirt!
10-20-2011
The Aspens are almost gone for this season...
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J was really excited to get all dressed up this morning even though she wasn't feeling well... She felt well enough to dance in the grass! I really liked the early light...
10-22-2011
A lone yellow flower... with some fun backlight.
10-23-2011
It's October, so its pumpkin time! I liked the soft tones of this image.
10-24-2011
Keeping with the pumpkin theme this week... :)
10-25-2011
Avocados, Lemons and a lone Pear! liked the colors and textures... iPhone photo edited with snapspeed.
10-26-2011
Off to Disneyland for a few days! Brought my Canon along and never took it out of the bag. Just used my iPhone 4s to see what I could come up with! Even had fun with a few HDR apps... this image is not an HDR image btw. It was about noon when I took it. I must say that Photo Stream may be the coolest thing Apple has ever created! Shoot photos all day, come home hook up to wifi and a few minutes later all the photos are on your computer and or iPad or other phone, I have it set up so that my wife and I share a photo stream, So her photos show up on my phone and vice versa. Pretty cool!
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Ok, I'm a Disney fan as is my wife, so therefore we pretty much go whenever we get a chance.. and to think it all started with a dream!
10-28-2011
After Disneyland we cruised down the coast to visit my sister in Carlsbad and spent the afternoon at the beach and left just before sunset... but was able to capture my nephew with his surf board in hand! It looks like he's headed out, but in fact he had just come in and was checking out these rocks... I liked the light at this hour.... This was actually the first day of good surf the whole week!
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Finally got around to carving a pumpkin this year... He's got a bit of a crooked smile, let's call it a "wry" smile! :) and of course I had to whittle on the teeth a bit, trying to make them look like teeth.. He'll do!
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The Kids had a ball dressing up and asking for candy. R was a Knight and J was a Princess of course...
10-31-2011
Hey I found an S on the dining room table. Might as well take a picture of it. :)
J got a Princess snow globe at the drug store today... So I had to try and shoot it! :)
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Red Corn for fall!
11-03-2011
Lego fireboat... With an interesting attempt at adding water in the foreground, post... :)
11-04-2011
Early snow so far this season... let's hope it keeps snowing!
11-05-2011
J really liked her outfit today!
11-06-2011
Toy Train and no this isn't part of the Sandquist Railway.... :)
11-07-2011
Eat your spinach!
11-08-2011
A fun part of this picture a day thing is finding your kids works of art!... you never know what you're going to find... It's always fun to use big brushes with finger paints....
11-09-2011
R got a helmet that he's really excited about.....
11-10-2011
Played golf with a couple of Vets today...
11-11-2011
Look who has rosy red cheeks... These are her real rosy cheeks they were not added in post. :) I did lighten up her face a bit as she was just in front of the main light source which was behind her... I she had stepped back an inch her face would have been lit better... some minor dodge on her face brought it out reasonably well and a high key filter and noise reduction utilizing Nik Software amazing plug ins completed the PP.
11-13-2011
These are liquid amber trees in my parents from yard... they are just starting to show their fall colors. This was taken with a iPhone 4s and edited with Aperture.
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it's a bit noisy since it was virtually dark when I tried to capture this hand held HDR with my iPhone 4s, utilizing the TrueHDR app. I kind of liked the tones and how the sky came out.
11-14-2011
Found some of J's Disney nail polish kit... and used an image on the iPad as a background....
11-15-2011
These look small in this photo, but these are rather large Holiday Globe grapes.. decided to try at 1.4 to see just how shallow the dof would be...
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Long day and too tired to switch lenses... so I figured another shallow DOF image was appropriate.... these are some rather tasty Gluten Free cookies! I could resist a bite... :)
11-17-2011
Caught J looking out the window today! Had fun trying to capture her blur of activity while shooting into the glare of the glass!
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A picture of Reece with his football!
11-19-2011
J is surely enjoying her lollypop! And no she didn't eat that much off the top, fortunately it broke off while unwrapping it!
11-20-2011
Hard to believe the season of giving has already begun!
the light is bad, the image is a quick snap, but the pie is delicious!
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Ok who's having sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving?
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I consider myself a complete HDR newbie.... but this image needed something, it was mid morning and the overcast was lifting, but the skies were still quite dull. This is at the top of Lombard street in San Francisco. i'm quite pleased how this turned out. Hope all had a fantastic Thanksgiving here in the USA.
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Spent the day on Alcatraz and around the San Francisco Wharf... This was taken on the municipal pier...
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Union Square San Francisco at Christmas time.
11-26-2011
Now that Thanksgiving's over it's time for Christmas decorations!...
11-27-2011
It's still November right? This is one of Reece's school projects for their November bulletin board. The project was write 3 things your thankful for and then turn over the page and color the leaf. So this is what Reece is thankful for and his painting and his teachers penmanship on the front. I think it's pretty cool!
It's beginning to look like Christmas around our house... I thought these pear ornaments hanging from the chandelier looked...
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Fun with textures of a palm tree!... and November has come to an end...
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Back to the Pears hanging from our chandelier for the start of December... I did some minor edits in Aperture and then used a really cool filter in Perfect Photo Studio to bring out the glittery surface...
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Took a drive up the local mountains today... This was the scene as the clouds were lifting after about 12 inches over night.... I liked the way this came out!
I wrote up my PP for this image here: http://www.douglassandquist.com/tech/dougs-post-processing.-this-might-be-a-new-series
12-02-2011