Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Composition

For Christmas my wonderful sister in law, Michelle, gave me a group on for an online photo class from Flying Photo School and I finally got a chance to redeem it for this month.  After much consideration I decided to take the Creative Composition class to make my photos more dynamic and interesting.  I have been learning lots about:

Leading lines
IMG_8156_1 by RachSal

Rule of thirds
IMG_8176_1 by RachSal

IMG_8183_2 by RachSal

Framing:
IMG_8228 by RachSal

Silhouettes:
IMG_8232_1 by RachSal

Reflection:
IMG_8265 by RachSal

Macro:
IMG_8251 by RachSal

And quite a few other concepts.  I was a little disappointed that week 4 ended up being mostly review, but I did get the tip to use a telephoto lens to get good photos of them without stopping the action.  I would like to take more online photography classes so if you have heard of any good ones I would love to hear about it.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Cast removal

I have to apologize, it seems that every time the kids have surgeries I stop writing in the blog almost completely.  I'm afraid it is mostly because we tend to lay low during the three weeks the kids have casts on and don't do much.  Yesterday the kids had their casts removed and we can do fun things again!  Jason was excited, but nervous going into the hospital to get his cast off.  He kept asking if it was going to hurt and if he was going to have a scab.  It didn't hurt and he didn't even have much of a scab.  I had forgotten that the Doctor had put a pin in his finger to try to straighten it out during his surgery.  When Jason found it he tried to pull it out himself and had to be restrained until a nurse was available to take it out for him.  Unfortunately, Jason inherited his mother's tendency to pick and has happily made it his hobby to pick the dry old skin off his hand and arm.  I just hope he doesn't make it raw.

Elizabeth was much more easy going and let us take off her cast without too much angst.  She had a much more extensive surgery and had much more scabbing than Jason.  She is very willing to show everyone her fingers though.  She even gave a high five with her new fingers to one of the nurses.  She certainly has her own little issues though, we had to go through a couple of hard nights when we told her she didn't need any more medicine.  I think she likes the taste and asks for it even when she isn't hurting.  Both kids have been tentative to use their new hands, but from past experience that is normal and will wear off in a few days.  Hopefully I will have some more interesting things to post in the next few weeks.

In other news I have been taking an online photography class (more on that towards the end of the month) and sometimes I take photos that don't show the principle we are working on, but I love none the less.  I figured I would share some of those with you guys.
IMG_8219 by RachSal
IMG_8201 by RachSal
IMG_8239 by RachSal
IMG_8262 by RachSal

Monday, April 1, 2013

Birthday and Easter

IMG_8010 by RachSal
IMG_8010, a photo by RachSal on Flickr
My we had a busy week!  Here is a photo recap of Elizabeth's birthday and Easter, ready go!
IMG_8021 by RachSal

IMG_8020 by RachSal

IMG_8031 by RachSal

IMG_8043 by RachSal

IMG_8044 by RachSal

IMG_8075 by RachSal

IMG_8084 by RachSal

IMG_8064 by RachSal

IMG_8073 by RachSal

IMG_8085 by RachSal

IMG_8088 by RachSal

IMG_8094 by RachSal

IMG_8098 by RachSal

IMG_8101 by RachSal

IMG_8106 by RachSal

IMG_8113 by RachSal

IMG_8137 by RachSal