WEEK 2 - JANUARY 13, 2013
This is just the second week of my Project 52. I don't know if this will always be the case for the duration of the year, but this was a great week behind the camera with quite a number of images I could choose for the weekly spot.
One was a photo I took of one of our dogs in the backyard. Another was a cellphone shot I grabbed of a reflection in a puddle out the backdoor of work. But having gone yesterday, (01/12/13 - I knew it would be a lucky date), on a winter photo shoot with Roy Cordingly and Jim Shane of the Boise Camera club, I knew the selected shot would likely come from that outting.
It was bone-chilling cold, below zero much of the day or just a few degrees above. We traveled up Idaho State Highway 95 and hit spots around Smiths Ferry, Round Valley, and Cabarton. It was well-worthwhile and I probably shot just under 200 photos. Of course one whittles that down to the "keepers," and then the challenge is picking just one shot for this posting.
I settled on the photo you see here, an old schoolhouse in the Round Valley, not far off the highway above Smiths Ferry. It was one of those buildings you wish could tell the tales of days gone by when children actually attended school there. Walking through the snow you wondered what it would have been like for kids attending on a winter day like this.
I decided to convert the shot to monochrome as I felt the historic nature of the photo lend itself to this treatment.
If you know more of the history of this building, drop me an e-mail. I'd love to hear more about it.
Technical specs:
Camera - Canon 50D
Lens - Tamron SP AF17-50 f/2.8 XR at 28mm
Exposure - 1/320 @ f/8 - ISO - 200
Matrix metering - No flash
Shot in Raw - Edited with Adobe Lightroom 3.
One was a photo I took of one of our dogs in the backyard. Another was a cellphone shot I grabbed of a reflection in a puddle out the backdoor of work. But having gone yesterday, (01/12/13 - I knew it would be a lucky date), on a winter photo shoot with Roy Cordingly and Jim Shane of the Boise Camera club, I knew the selected shot would likely come from that outting.
It was bone-chilling cold, below zero much of the day or just a few degrees above. We traveled up Idaho State Highway 95 and hit spots around Smiths Ferry, Round Valley, and Cabarton. It was well-worthwhile and I probably shot just under 200 photos. Of course one whittles that down to the "keepers," and then the challenge is picking just one shot for this posting.
I settled on the photo you see here, an old schoolhouse in the Round Valley, not far off the highway above Smiths Ferry. It was one of those buildings you wish could tell the tales of days gone by when children actually attended school there. Walking through the snow you wondered what it would have been like for kids attending on a winter day like this.
I decided to convert the shot to monochrome as I felt the historic nature of the photo lend itself to this treatment.
If you know more of the history of this building, drop me an e-mail. I'd love to hear more about it.
Technical specs:
Camera - Canon 50D
Lens - Tamron SP AF17-50 f/2.8 XR at 28mm
Exposure - 1/320 @ f/8 - ISO - 200
Matrix metering - No flash
Shot in Raw - Edited with Adobe Lightroom 3.