Day 28: Flowers

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Kyrie

Anna

I am getting a better feel for the limits of my camera's focus ability. The camera definitely had more trouble focusing on the flowers than it did the teacup, even in "flower" mode. I suspect that that is because these flowers did not dominate the scene as the teacup did, so the camera kept trying to focus on the background instead. The manual focus requires me to back off further away, although I was trying to avoid that so that I could minimize the amount of "clutter" in the picture. As it was, I ended up cropping the photo to get this version.

Since these flowers were the only ones available - this Challenge being designed for summer and not January - and since Kyrie's shots of the flowers all came out blurry (and, to my amusement, having the ceiling as a background, because the flowers were hanging above her head), she opted for drawing flowers instead.

Day 27: From a Distance

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Kyrie

Anna

I am a full block from the motorcycle, maybe a block and a half from the rainbow-colored light rail.

Hmm. Did I learn anything? I learned that when it's sunny outside, unlike in our cave-like home, you can turn the shutter speed slow enough to capture a moving motorcycle in the split second that he's driving by. That was cool.

Day 26: Close-up

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Kyrie

Anna

Today I learned that when I'm in manual mode, switching the focus to the flower symbol actually does help the camera focus a lot closer-up than either manual or auto focus.

Kyrie actually took a lot of shots, and I forgot to upload them for her to pick one before she went to bed. So I picked this one for her. It's very appropriate; she is very excited about her birthday and mentions it to everyone who talks to her.

Day 25: Something Pink

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Kyrie

Anna

Day 24: Animal

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Kyrie

It's been a long time since I held a cat.

Anna

Day 23: Sunflare

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Of course, it poured today. So we, umm, made our own sunflares. By which I mean that Kyrie made her own sunflare, and I got lazy and took a screenshot of a google-image search for 'sunflare'. 

Day 22: Hands

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Kyrie

Anna

Hmm. I think what I learned today was that when you have kids who are more interested in squirming than posing for your shots, it is easier to get a decent shot on "auto" mode than to take the time to get the manual settings just right. If it weren't so dim in my apartment, I could just make the shutter speed faster. But as it is, I usually have to have my iso to max, f-stop to lowest, and still have to slow my shutter speed to 1/20th of a second or so, in order to get a decent amount of light. Or else I turn the flash on, and then forget to slow the shutter speed or turn the iso down, so it comes out too bright. And by the time I get that fixed, the kids have wandered off.