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52 Week Project: Week 22

Alan Olson — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:54:14 +0000

With today being Memorial Day, I had originally planned to find something that would be suitable for such an important day to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. As often the case, life doesn’t always follow the plans you lay out.

I never intended this picture to be public with the exception of family nor had any intent on it being part of my year-long photo project. It was taken Father’s Day 2009 and I was getting various family shots to commemorate the day. Little did I know 11 months later how incredibly special this image would become.

Kyle & Grandpa – We love you and miss you deeply. Abi & Grandma – We love you and grieve for your loss.

Exposure: 1/40 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, Focal Length: 35mm, ISO 800 (Flash bounced off ceiling)

(L to R) Abi Zimmer Christian, Joyce Christian, Walter Christian, Kyle Christian

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52 Week Project: Week 19

Alan Olson — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:00:24 +0000

Jen and I took the kids out for a shoot one sunny, Sunday morning last month to get some updated photos. Overall, it went well although I need to add a reflector to my equipment list or at the very least, some white tag board. I like this one of Isaac just hanging out on the bench. Not sure what he’s looking at but it provided enough distraction to get two shots in.

Exposure: 1/4000 sec, Aperture: f/2.8, Focal Length: 50mm, ISO 200

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52 Week Project: Week 13

Alan Olson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:00:51 +0000

Last week, my wife decided to paint our daughter’s toes for the first time. I had time for three shots before my model bailed to go play. They grow up too fast…

Exposure: 1/60 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50mm, ISO 200

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52 Week Project: Week 11

Alan Olson — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:15 +0000

This last Sunday, the weather was the nicest it has been since last fall with temperatures right around 60 degrees. Samantha has been wanting to go on the swings all winter and this was her lucky day. I haven’t done much with continuous shooting lately but I did this day in order to catch those moments you don’t always get when using one-shot mode.

This was my favorite as it shows her joy in getting to ride the swings, which is a good reminder to me to forget all that is going on in the world and to go seek out and experience the simple joys in life.

Exposure: 1/1000 sec, Aperture: f/5.0, Focal Length: 28mm, ISO 200

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Isaac the Drooler

Alan Olson — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:00:53 +0000

I’ve been shooting a bit more lately as part of plan/vision/practice and was able to get my trusty sidekick, Isaac to sit there and look cute while I rattled off a few shots using my flash from different angles and different power (while I can before he starts crawling). This ended up being one of my favorite.

Flash: On camera, aimed left with bounce card up, 1/2 power.

Exposure: 1/200 sec, Aperture: f/5.0, Focal Length: 70 mm, ISO 200

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Family at the Fair

Alan Olson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:00:25 +0000

We took the kids to the Sherburne County Fair last month to see some animals and eat some fair food. Samantha had a good time watching the animals (and eating mini-donuts). I took some pictures of Jennifer and Samantha watching the horses. This at the time was an “oops” picture but after uploading to Lightroom, it has grown on me and thus was spared from the Delete button.

Exposure: 1/320 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 135 mm, ISO 200

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Isaac’s Homecoming Outfit

Alan Olson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:39:34 +0000

Isaac came home with us on Monday wearing a moose (or rather an outfit with a moose on it). I overexposed by one stop to keep the contrast between his outfit and the white blanket he was laying on.

Exposure: 1/80 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 800

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Introducing Isaac

Alan Olson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:34:45 +0000

Finally had a few minutes to peruse the seemingly millions of pictures we took over the weekend with the birth of our son Isaac. He was born on April 11th at 5:18 pm and weighted 8.4 lbs and was 21 inches in length. Other than the first night, things have gone fairly smoothly with much assistance from my mom who was able to help out with watching Samantha. She’s slowing warming up to him and doesn’t cry when he does. She just runs around the house saying “Baby” all day.

From a photography standpoint the lighting in the hospital stinks. For some of the pictures, I used my speedlight set up with my wireless remote trigger to try to get some light in the room (I was able to bounce it off the white ceiling at 1/8th power to at least get some decent shots).

(First Picture: Exposure: 1/160 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, Focal Length: 30 mm, ISO 400 Second Picture: Exposure: 1/40 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50 mm, ISO 400)

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Samantha In a Basket

Alan Olson — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:00:06 +0000

I was taking some pictures of Samantha for her 18-month picture and decided to go with my 50mm f/1.8 in order to get the focus on her face and make as much around her blurred out. When I uploaded to Lightroom, there were six images that I had taken from this vantage point and none of those had her face in focus.

At first, I was a bit disappointed in myself for not paying better attention to where I was focusing as there is very little distance between where the image is sharp versus where it starts to blur with my aperture set at f/2.0. Now as I look at it, I like the effect it made however I need to get out and work more with my “nifty-fifty” to improve on those shallow depth-of-field images.

Exposure: 1/400 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50 mm, ISO 200.

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Child Labor

Alan Olson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:00:31 +0000

Yes, around here, everybody pitches in…although it remains to be seen just how much she can get done. Also, what is the proper white balance setting for dirty ice?

Exposure: 1/800 sec, Aperture: f/6.3, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200.

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