I went to the Taste of Chicago on the afternoon of the 3rd with friends and we ate giant turkey legs (like baby dinosaurs) and watched the fireworks on the lakefront. I bought a remote shutter and used it for the first time.I sort of just winged the exposures for the fireworks, I’ll be sure to reference some online in the future. Anyway, the whole day was a really fun time, one of the funnest I’ve had in a while. Enjoy!
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Good Friday Teleconverter
Here’s a photo before church with my parents at Queen of All Saints when I went home on Friday.
I was very enticed to take pictures of the ceremony and saw a lot of really cool photo opps, but restrained myself since I didn’t wanna be a weirdo (because : (1) I didn’t ask the parish if I could do it first, and (2) I was supposed to be paying attention). There was a lady from the church with like a D40 or Rebel taking photos / pop-up flashing from 20 yards away, taunting me internally. We also left quickly right after the mass, which was sad because I wanted to take some indoor architecture photos. Another time…
Here’s some photos from the next day, outside of the Calumet Photo window, trying out a 2x teleconverter on my 70-200mm (now f/5.6 because of the light loss). I wasn’t very impressed, but I still wish I had something cheap, long, and accesible for sports.
Unofficial Wandering
I spent most of my morning and afternoon on Friday wandering around campus making friends with friendly drunks and trying to invite myself into parties. Here’s a bananalbum of the festivities, have fun and click on any of these photos to thumb thru em all.
The first 30 or so are random outtakes of people posing for me, people I that know, and other stuff that I didn’t submit to the DI. After you get past the photo of me eating dinner, photos with captions are stuff that I submitted. I got a handful of stuff of mine put online, but there was so much good coverage from our staff this year it was hard to squeeze some of my more feature-y and crappy stuff in there, which sorta sucks. For the DI slideshow click here.
After dinner, I was home walking down 4th Street and noticed a guy waving down ambulances blaring past me. I ran over and took some shitty dark photos of a guy being put on a stretcher and into an ambulance. Apparently he had climbed a 3rd story balcony to a 4th story balcony, but the railing broke and and he fell. It sorta put a damper on what I was expecting to be a fun night, but I still hung out with friends and ended up at Legends by the end of the night.
Remember Thou Art Dust and Unto Dust Thou Shalt Return
Ash Wednesday Quad feech from today:
I sorta messed up when switching from CF to SD card, and accidentally switched from RAW to Medium Quality JPEG. D’oh!
A Superbowl Party In Black & White
Normally I never convert images to black and white, but the dining room / living room at alex’s place has two different color temperatures (flourescent and tungsten). That makes for some funky yellow backgrounds depending on how I white balance my RAW file in post. Anyway, here’s some fun photos from the Super Bowl viewing.
Alex writes his last will and testament during Superbowl XLIII.
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