The two kindergarten clasess from Jackson Park Elementary School took a trip to the St. Louis Zoo. Above is the Animoto video made from the photos taken during the outing and the photos can all be found in the Jackson Park School gallery under Children heading on www.jeffreyphoto.com
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I recently photographed "Soul Style" a fashion show held to raise funds for a couple non-profits that support abused and neglected women & children. It was sponsored by Mom Me Makeover and was held at Quintessential Nightclub in St. Charles. It was a good event and fun to photograph, but unfortunately the lighting was tough and one of my flashes crapped out in the practice run. Fortunately I carry back up gear and was still able to get a few photos.
The night started with some opera music and then moved quickly into the fashion portion.
You can see all the photos from the fashion show jeffreyphoto.com.
Saturday morning is a great time to go to Bread Company (a.k.a. Panera Bread) with friends. today I brought my camera and Lensbaby selective focus lens. It was pretty grey and gloomy outside and the light was not great, so I cranked up the ISO to 1600 and dropped in a f2.8 aperture ring. There is a decent amount of digital noise in many of the photos, especially the first two where I still had in a f8.0 aperture ring.
But playing around with it in Lightroom allowed me to salvage something. I kinda like the look of Maria “RealFitMama” Sparks in the photo above. There are more photos from the day, all taken with my Lensbaby at my photo site, all in the Saturday at Bread Co gallery.
Sure,it is a bit odd but when I was grilling on Sunday I decided to bring out the SLR and a flash to see what type of photograph could be made when the subject was pork steaks.
Of course you have to start with the raw meat, sitting on a tray (covered in foil so you can discard the foil and use the same to bring them in).
My suggestion for the above image is different that what I typically recommend. For it and other photos of slabs of raw meat, I don’t think it is wise to look at the image in the original resolution. It is just a bit to meaty.
They look much better after being on the grill for a while and browning up nicely.
Ahhhh, nothing like meat on a grill. See more on my Flickr page under the tag “pork steak”
