In case you didn’t know, the moon was HUGE last Saturday. The biggest it’s been in 18 years? Is that right, my astronomer friends? Anyway, obviously this calls for photographic evidence. On Saturday night, Cobalt and I grabbed our tripods and cable releases (best.invention.ever) before heading out to our favorite “take pictures of the moon” spot in Boulder and taking some moon pictures. I’d say this one turned out pretty good. :) I must say that with the lunar eclipse and now this giant moon, I have definitely gotten practice with my moon/night shots. Keep up the good work, moon! :D
Author: iampotassium
Portrait: This is my home
Cobalt and I have been going on a bunch of mini photography trips with our SLRs (I say this because he’s been working with his film SLR lately! Exciting! I can’t wait to see how his pictures turn out!) lately. Basically, we just get slightly out of Boulder and then stop whenever one of us finds something interesting to photograph. So here is Cobalt surrounded by the glorious mountains of Colorado…
Sunny Day Activity
Happy Friday everyone! I figured that since we skipped black and white Wednesday this week, we could have black and white Friday to make up for it! Anyway, I think this picture is really neat. Cobalt and I stopped to take pictures along the side of the road one day because he really liked a random dirt road that was off to the right. I was mesmerized by the bikers going around this turn though. I just stood there, camera ready, waiting for them to come. This is my favorite of the pictures I got though. I like how they look like they are all poised at the top of the hill, waiting for me to take the picture so that they can keep going on their trek. :)
A softer side
I think this one works best if you are a bit farther away from your computer screen. Hey… better for your eyes anyway, huh? Anyway, I LOVE this picture. It turned out so neat. Looks all old or something. Or looks like I just paused a movie on an old VHS… Anyway, I’ve been messing around with this new technique to take softer portraits. Used to be that you smeared vaseline on a lens filter and then used that filter to make your portraits softer. That just sounds messy to me. So now people use nylon! I went a bit overboard with this picture and I actually put my nylon black stockings over my camera lens as if it were getting all dressed up to go out. Apparently that’s a bit much since Cobalt is so dark. Though I kind of like the grittiness.
As much as I like the drama of the above picture, I think it is a bit much for your every day “soft” portrait. I tried it again with a nylon “ped” that you get at a shoe store (got new shoes last weekend!)… This makes for a much much more subtle effect…
You can barely tell that I am any softer…. ooooo the subtleties… It was a lot of fun to play with this nylon. I found that if I stretched it differently across my lens, I could get more or less “soft” tones. I also found that this is one of those types of photography that doesn’t work so well with the backlit subject. You’ll probably see some more of my “soft” attempts in the near future. Yay! Fun new camera techniques!!!
Cell Phone Picture: Sleepy Potassium
Last Friday marked the end of an EPIC week. I was really really stressed with school and life and so by Friday I was exhausted. Cobalt and I headed down to visit his family pretty much as soon as I got out of work too so I got no down time. So we set up a little bed for me in the back of his car… that way I could rest while he drove. Apparently I passed out for long enough for him to snap this picture on his cell phone.
Saber Tooth!
I went cross country skiing a few weeks ago and on one of the trails, I came across this crazy stump that looks like a sabertooth tiger!!! I like his big long tooth! :)
Black And White: Converse with Spurs!
New! All new! Call now and get spurs for your Converse shoes! Only $39.99 for solid silver spurs on your Converse!!! Woooo… :) Anyway, this pic is from a walk I had with Cobalt where we saw a fence that had these spur-like things on it! I had Cobalt stand on the wire to make it look like his shoe had a spur on it. Neat I think! :)
I got ma mouf full a peppas!
Welp… obviously this little guy was at the Fiery Foods Show considering he has a mouth full of peppers. He looks so happy to be a fire breathing gator! :D
Portrait: What kind of freak hot sauce did you just give me?
This weekend I went to the Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show in Albuquerque, NM with Cobalt and his sister. Basically, people come from all over the country (and a few people came from outside of this country) to compete for the tastiest/spiciest hot and barbecue sauces. And then once the judging is over, the public is allowed to come and sample all the goodness/hopefully buy people’s products. Cobalt has gone many years in a row but this was my first time. I went as his personal photography assistant, photographing him eating various spicy foods and then his reactions (I also got to eat my fair share of spicy deliciousness…). This is by far my favorite of his reactions to some crazy hot sauce called the Green Flash. Yikes! Watch out! Apparently this one wasn’t even as hot as another one he tried from Jason’s Mom Hot Sauce which was so hot, it gave him the hiccups for the rest of the show. Geez… Intense. Poor Cobalt…
Gearing up for the weekend…
Man am I ready for the weekend! Too bad it’s only Thursday but at least that means there’s only one more day until the weekend! Hurrah! This has been a crazy crazy week for me… I hope your weeks have been treating you guys better…
This picture comes from the same hike as long way down from last week. I just thought this rusted gear was so neat that it deserved a picture. :)
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