296/365 - Jim - Eggsausted Ideas

( f/11 55mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

I feel as though my creative ideas are becoming exhausted. It just seems to be more and more difficult to come up with something to photograph. Probably because I don't get out enough and see new things, but that is what work and kids will do to you I suppose. There isn't much to say about this photo. I applied a preset in Lightroom called Creative Catalyst to give it the blue and tan shades. I thought it made it look less boring.

227/365 - Jim - Rejected Egg

( f/13 105mm 1/13 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

I found this robin egg in my front yard landscaping. It must have been rejected from the nest, but I didn't see any nests around it. I moved it into the grass and got really low by laying on the grass and letting bugs crawl all over me to take this photo. Then I used Lightroom to give the grass more of a wheat field look. I also applied a softening effect with Picasa.

195/365 - Jim - Eggcellent Easter

( f/32 105mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Today was Easter. Jameson and I colored these eggs with a Paas package. We used the marble method where you add some vegetable oil to the dye. It made them pretty slippery no matter how many times you dry them off. If you look close enough you can see that the bottom right egg slipped out of my hands as I was setting it up to photograph and it cracked. I used a softbox over the top front right of the egg and a small white reflector below the egg to fill in the other side a little.

193/365 - Jim - Easter Eggs

( f/5 62mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Paige came to visit for Easter and play with Jameson today. She colored eggs with my sister while Jameson took his nap. When he woke up they got to have an Easter egg hunt outside. They had a blast. Paige was kind enough to pose for a portrait with her eggs for my photo today.