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Snow Dayz In Texas

On Thursday (Feb 11th) it started snowing in North Texas. It’s rare, so I made sure to enjoy it with the boys. For the first time we were actually able to build a real snowman and have snowball fights with the neighbors. I was able to get some nice photos over the last couple of days.

The biggest thing I had to remember was to decrease the aperture because my first set of pictures came out all white. I thought my camera was on the fritz, but realized I had it set to 2.8 for some indoor shots I was taking earlier. I lowered it to 8 and everything was all good. I also threw in some black and white shots.

Playgrounds & Punkins

The weather this weekend was amazing, so I decided to take the kids on an afternoon outing to the park. Earlier that week, their daycare gave them some pumpkins and we weren’t able to go to the pumpkin patch this year, so I figured why not bring them along. My boys are my practice models and I hoped to get some shots in while they were playing.

Here’s what I learned:

• Don’t go to a crowded park if you want them to focus on you. The playground was packed and my youngest was all over the place.
• Make sure you have plenty of daylight and a fast shutter to prevent blur. I couldn’t set my shutter speed too high as the sun went down, which caused some of the pics to come out dark.
• Make sure the camera focuses accurately on the subject. Moving targets can be hard to get in focus.
• Take plenty of pictures. With digital you can always delete the ones you don’t like.

BTW: For those wondering, I know pumpkins is spelled wrong in the title. That’s how the boys say it.

Are You Ready For Some Football?

This past weekend my son had his first flag football game against the Sooners. Most of the game consisted of running plays, but we actually pull off a screen pass that went really well. It was fun watching them on the field. After a couple of plays, they seemed to catch on to what was going on. He almost had a touchdown, but his loco legs got a hold of him and brought him down.

Despite a few little meltdowns and a fire ant attack, he did good. But most importantly, he had fun.

Conference Fun

I’m a big fan of action photos. I took these photos at a youth conference our church had in Waxahachie, TX. Chaperoning a group of youth boys is a lot of work, but I had fun and got some pretty cool shots of them in action. The indoor basketball shots were the hardest because of the low light and fast movements. I had to set the ISO to about 800 and used an exposure of about 1/100s. Of course I had to increase the light in post-processing to make the photo a little brighter.

Gone Fishing

My son kept bugging me about going out fishing again, so I took him back out a couple of weeks ago. The first time we went he caught something, so I guess he expected it to happen again. Well it didn’t and he was a little disappointed when we had to go. He didn’t realize this was a lesson in patience and casting. I didn’t put a hook on his reel because I wanted to see how he did when it came to casting on his own. He did pretty good, but I’m happy I didn’t put the hook on because he would have hooked himself a lot that day (just call it fatherly intuition). While we were there, I captured some photos of him doing his thing.

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