It really is an amazing camera that can shoot at 10 fps so there may have been a few I didn't use where his hand swung in front of his face.

Chris - Excuse my ignorance, but I'm trying to learn to take better photos. Did you use auto settings for "sports" on those photos?

Sorry, just came back here and saw your question. No, this camera is geared towards pros so there isn't a setting for sports like on consumer level ones. When I shoot sports shots like this I choose the Tv setting (Time value or shutter speed priority). I prefer the shutter speed to be 1/2000 or a bit faster. I choose Auto for the aperture and let camera choose the f/stop which will typically be fairly wide open. The camera will try to choose a fairly wide aperature coupled with the lowest ISO or sensitivity as possible.

I was playing around in Lightroom last night and noticed that I have over 42,334 images with no keywords. Most of these are older images imported into my catalog from a time before I knew the importance of keywording. With Keywording you can search for a person by name or a group of people or places you have visited and depending on what you entered with a keyword that is added to the metadata you can easily find it later. That's a good thing when you have over 76 thousand pictures like I do.

So I was just skipping through these non keyworded images and found one I liked and had never done anything with. A picture of my granddaughter, Kirstyn taken at Easter, 2008. I think the kids were coloring Easter eggs. So I played with it for a few minutes and got a shot that I may end up making a print to hang on the wall with all the other grand kid pictures. For your amusement I post the original and the retouched, I cleaned color, recropped, sharpened and decreased noise and took out the spot on her shirt.

It's a keeper! :thumbsup:

prom!

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oops it's huge, sry

Cute! He's got a real Owen Wilson vibe going.

tell that young man to get a hair cut

and wipe that smirk off his face

prom is srs business

Mos def.

Gorgeous dress Hebe! Looking good!

Very attractive couple, monster.

chris, you are a pretty good photographer, I'll grant that. But with subjects like that, it's hard to fail. What a cutie.

What do we have here?

Also at the Home Opener Football game Friday (see Swim mom thread). So two reasons to be there, neither of them to do with watching football. TFSM

He sure cleans up real good. :thumb: Looking sharp.

they ended up encasing the ratty, still-wet pool hair in a rubber band and shoving it up in the shako (hat to me) The brush was defeated.

So are your kids done with the charter school they were at, or is the charter school big enough to have a football team?

They were not at a charter school, it was an alternative program public school K-8. Now they are at high school and yes, three football teams -freshman, JV and Varsity, it's one of the three regular public high school in Ann Arbor (although not the one we are zoned for)

Ann Arbor has 3 full-size regular, and 3 smaller alternative program high schools (all public) and maybe 4 charter high schools and 3 private. If we were at one of the alternate public high schools, the charter schools or the private schools, the kids would then be able to be on the sports teams/bands of their zoned school if their school did not offer that program and they could get themselves to practice. So he's be in a green nutcracker uniform instead of Colombia Blue :D

Of course one is no longer there, she has flown the nest and is at University of Michigan. Bizarrely, much closer than her high school (which was 6 miles away), although she is living in dorms. :D

That's how she was able to visit and represent the graduated players to receive the State Champion accolade

What do we have here? It's a marching baritone horn.

JK. This is awesome.

That's a real feather in her cap, for sure.

um? Are you referring to the polo state champ, or the boy in band uniform? Or just mixing and matching?

just the what do we have here question--a feather --ha-- in her cap. just riffing.

you have very very accomplished children and you and beest have countless reasons to be proud of them. among other things, they reflect very well upon you two as parents.

you deserve feathers in your caps as well.

My posse and me. When you are as old and useless as I, you breed your own - lol

No man with three "children" that age who still want to hang with him is useless.
Remind yourself sometimes.

(Yeah I get you were joking. But I'm serious.)

What uuuup ClassicClan?!

Good looking bunch, man.

classic, you need to print, or tattoo, Sundae's post where you can keep it in mind, all the time.

Well put Sundae.

Well done, Dad.

Bravo dude.

Nice!

Except the gimp with the beard. :stickpoke

Thanks all... you are too kind.

Damn right we are...But, at least, you appreciate it.

:p:

One of these is related to me

I'll be damned, no webbed feet. :haha:

IKR? I think she took some antigillyweed (It was a Harry Potter Yule Ball hosted by the Quidditch club)

Wow she looks great in that awesome dress! YAY! ;)

:D It was like $6 from a thrift store years ago, we call it the "goldfish dress", and this is he first time she's worn it!

I want that dress! For really reals.

He started working on this helmet yesterday. Cutting out paper templates. I guess with 12 DAYS off from school because of snow, and weekends, and teacher work days, you have to fill your time with something.

My son is Kylo Ren. I hope he doesn't gut me with a lightsaber.
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Ha!

Be careful, Kylo Ren is going to get nastier than Darth Vader ever was. :worried:

Here's a pic of Addie making cookies. I'm working hard on my photo skills.

Well CRAP!!! Evidently I can't post out of my Flickr. Can someone help me?

:mock:

Besties reunited.

Aw. That is some adorableness right there. Don't tell her I said that. :)

Griff's in his heaven, all's right with the world. ;)

Trying this again. Here's a photo of Addie making chocolate chip cookies

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/a...s%203-6-16.jpg

Cute!

A couple of very nice shots, guys.

Freckled girly!

Like her mommy and most of my past loves. Anybody notice the improvement in my photo skills?

I noticed it was pretty nice photo.

ty Gravdigr. I used to have probs with blurry, shaky photos. Now I'm using an DSLR on a tripod with cable release. I'm also using photo editing software.

I wish I could post soft core nude of her mom I recently did.

Look how tough he looks.

grrr.

without helmets, they all -but the goalies especially- look like the shrunken head guy in Beetle Juice

Yeah, they'd look much different in the locker room wearing a towel. :haha:

Did a portrait session with 3 of my granddaughters who live nearby. My garage/workshop is a bit jumbled up right now so I moved the furniture in our family room and set up a background and some lights inside.

I'm trying out my newest camera, the Canon 5Ds which boasts a 50 mp sensor. Very high resolution but also large files to work with. Ideally I will use this camera for portraits and landscapes where I want incredible detail and it helps if you pair it with really good lenses. So far I am very happy with the camera.

Emily (in red) is 8 and in second grade. She has really crooked teeth that will need to have braces some day so she didn't want any big toothy smiles. Sarah is 10 and Kirstyn is 14.

It's hard to really see with these smaller images that will post here but the detail is incredible. These could easily be poster size and still be super sharp.

Last batch...

Kirstyn is at typical teenage girl stage of life. Spent hours getting ready, showered washed her hair, did her makeup and carefully picked her outfits but hated the pictures when I showed her. Not my work but the way she looks.

Oh, one last shot. For many years whenever I shoot kids I always let them make funny faces every now and then if they have been giving me some good poses. Sometimes the funny ones are the best. Emily has been able to cross her eyes in different directions since she was little. She just had to do it for me one more time.