Cootie Bugs

This photo challenge, with Ed's Photography and a new photographer from Milestones, was to take a photography representing "Toys".

Cootie Bugs

My daughter got the Game Cootie from Santa Claus this year and I thought what better to shoot a picture of then this classic game.

I shot this on my new Denim Background I got for Christmas using a external flash mounted on camera. I placed a white cloth over the the flash to try and soften the light. I also bounced the flash off a white ceiling. There was some ambient halogen lights in the room as well. A little post processing to brighten the colors helped as well.

Special thanks to my Wife, since I don't have a good way to hold the background, she lent a few hands.

Green Valley

Green Valley

This was one of the last good shots from Livermore CA. This was cropped from a much larger image and I drove the saturation in the image to bring out the Blues and Greens!

I really like this image cause the hills remind me of Hills from Smurfs!

Model: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Exposure: 1/640 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 36mm

Lady Bug Light

Lady Bug Light

This light hangs in my daughters room next to her bed. She has to have it on every night or else she cannot sleep. I must admit when my wife picked this Green Lady Bug light out for her I was sure it would scare her! I guess I was wrong; but thats nothing new...

ISO: 1000

Exposure: 1/25 sec

Aperture: f/7.1

Focal Length: 65mm