February Free Study
Camera specs; Canon EOS Rebel XS fitted with a Canon EF-S 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens, f7.0 @ 1/100 a second, ISO 800 at 135mm.
Its funny how Chinese fortunes work. Yes I did get laid off, I found out the day before I opened the fortune cookie. For some odd reason I kept that fortune as a piece of cruel irony to laugh at if times got tough. Funny enough though, the day after my layoff took effect my old manager called me and asked if I would be interested in coming back as a department head (promotion from my previous position). I guess these things do come true given time.
It took me a couple more orders from our local take-out to get enough cookies for this shot. This is my first “studio” photo using a tabletop setup I bought my wife for Christmas.
Unfortunately the photo did not do as well as I’d hoped in the DPChallenge free study challenge for February. It brought me a 4.79 which is my lowest score yet. Very disappointing for a shot that I put that much thought into. Time to go back to the drawing board and work on my March entry.
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March 14th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Now I feel bad for suggesting you use it. It was more thought provoking than my own medicore scoring effort, which has gone mostly unnoticed on Flickr as well. Freestudies are harsh, but you don’t know until you throw it in.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Don't feel bad, this was the entry I was going for anyway and your input is always appreciated. This is one of the only subjects that I had the idea way before I took the shot and actually conducted a little planning for. I think February wasn't either of our months at DPC.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:04 am
[...] ended up with a 5.67. This shot was taken during Shawn Duffy’s Night Photowalk DC. After last month’s disaster I’m happy with this score which is my highest so far in a free study [...]