Photo Assignment: Seasonal: Holiday's 2007

[Suburbanmom]

A few from Portsmouth NH.

Stunning! I love the clarity. How long was your exposure?

 

[Furgus]

Here is the picture for our Christmas card this year

Note the Cat ornament in the back....that is the best way to have our other "girls" pose for a Christmas Card

 

[dcg0317]

Stunning! I love the clarity. How long was your exposure?

Thank you Suburbanmom, the first one I shot at 1.3 sec, the 2nd one was 5 sec. the 3rd one was 1.6 sec. the last one was for 1.25 sec all ISO 100.

 

[Gdad]

A few from decorating the tree.

 

[DMickey28]

These are gorgeous pictures!!

The picture from dcg are amazing. For a newby photographer, how did you do that in laymen's terms?

I am new to this thread and photos so forgive my amatuer-ness!! Here are a few of DS in the last week or so.

 

[Avivasmom]

WOW those are all such amazing shots...loved looking at them.

Here is my favorite one from Hanukah....

 

[handicap18]

Excellent job to EVERYONE! Keep them coming.

Here are a few Orniments from the holiday shop in Germany in EPCOT:

 

[Gdad]

Our Christmas Card picture for this year.

The one we liked out of 184 Shots - thank goodness for digital.

 

[boBQuincy]

Our cats help with decorating. Here our youngest, Andie is testing the tree stand to make sure it's sturdy enough.

 

[dcg0317]

These are gorgeous pictures!!

The picture from dcg are amazing. For a newby photographer, how did you do that in laymen's terms?

I am new to this thread and photos so forgive my amatuer-ness!!

Thank you DMickey28, great pics of your DS.
Great pics everyone, Glad the picture of your daughters is very nice, it will make a beautiful Christmas card.
boBQuincy I hope kitty doesn't move over and decide to chew on the lights, I had a cat do that once, she never went near the tree again.

How did I shoot them, I used a tripod, low ISO setting (ISO 100) mirror lockup and a remote shutter release, AV mode and checked my history gram to see if I needed any minor adjustments.

 

[AndrewWG]

A picture of my tree from last night. I like the way the lights shine as little stars, but am not sure why they are doing that. They are just regular small lights. Needed to shine a flashlight on the angel to illuminate her a bit, otherwise she just turned out dark.

f8 1.3sec ISO 100 "nifty fifty" Canon 30D with tripod and shutter release

Here is what one of the lights looks like:

 

[Amy]

Nice looking tree, Andy! I agree - the lights look real neat when they're like stars. I saw your post on another thread late last night (can't remember which one) and somebody posted that it's a small aperture that makes the "star" effect. Whenever that happens with one of my shots (I remember a good one of the sun shining off Darth Vader's helmet during Stars Wars Weekend in June), it's purely accidental; I couldn't do it if I tried!

 

[diznylnd]

From Disneyland last night.

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

This is our christmas card picture this year -

A few of the other pics I took of the kids -

First up is Belle, yes, she's really that pastey white!

Ami, she's never holding still and rarely looks at the camers!

The girls wanted this one for the Christmas card, such great little sisters!

 

[cpbjgc]

This is the annual parade which features floats decked out in lights. It was a chilly night and these pictures were taken handheld with my daughter sitting on my shoulders (and getting down, and getting up again, and getting down again ). You will note we were on the wrong side of the street for many pictures as people on the floats were looking the other direction .

I used my Rebel XTi with the Sigma 17-70 mm f2.8-4.5, no flash, 800 ISO and underexposing at -2/3 to get adequate shutter speed.

Rudolph escaped...

Cindy's Carriage...

Everyone's traditional favourite - the Hot Tub float!

The Big Man himself...

 

[PoohJen]

Last Week at Boardwalk

Castaway Cay 12/8/07

 

[diznylnd]

Last Week at Boardwalk

Castaway Cay 12/8/07

Oh my!! Now I really want to take a Disney Cruise in Dec!!!!! Wonderful pics! Thanks for sharing them.

 

[EasyGoing*]

A Mickey ornament we picked up in Oct at DisneyWorld ...Plus it gave me a chance to try out my new Olympus E-volt 510 I got from Santa(My wife)

 

[dcg0317]

Nice shots everyone.
cpbjgc very nice work, that looks like a nice parade, not like the one we have.
EasyGoing* great ornament shots, I shot some myself last night and going to post a few as soon as I'm done uploading them.

 

[dcg0317]

Here's some shots I did last night, I used a 50 mm Canon lens with a Kenko 20 mm extentension tube on a tripod with a focusing rail, also did these in live mode.