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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.

PaW 2009 Week 4

Camera specs; Canon EOS Rebel XS fitted with a 50mm 1.8mm lens, f2.0 @ 1/50 a second, ISO 400, hand held.

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