This was taken a few months ago. Â I really like the expressions on everyone’s faces and the focus on my mother looking at her grand-daughter.
ISO 160 1/125 f1.4 50mm summilux
Re-post June 2011
As all of you are aware, my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl 2.5 weeks ago. Â Like all parents, we are taking plenty of pictures and videos. Â Recently, I took this picture after her bath. Â I love how her hair is standing up and how she is looking towards her mommy. Â Even though, she is still too young to focus in on objects, you can tell she already has a tight bond with the people that love her.

My wife and I have always been big movie people, going to the movies at least a couple of times a month. Â Obviously, we don’t get to go much anymore because of our baby girl (that’s not a bad thing). Â Last summer we were anxious to see the last Harry Potter movie. Â We hopped in the truck and drove to the drive-in. Â I caught this picture when I was walking back to the truck.
ISO 800 1/30 f/1.4 50mm
I don’t typically discuss my post-processing but today I thought I would mention a few programs that I routinely use. Â I store all my pictures in Apple’s Aperture 3. Â Most who read this blog are probably familiar with it or know of it. Â It’s basically a program to easily store and file all your pictures (i.e. library). Â You can also make adjustments to your pictures without making permanent changes. Â Most, use Adobe’s Lightroom or the casual photographer will use iPhoto. I’ve used all 3 and iPhoto is definitely more for enthusiast.. Â Lightroom and Aperture are very similar and I really wouldn’t say one is better than the other.
I use Adobe Photoshop 5 or more recently 6.0 (beta). Â I use this when needing to make more complicated fixes or needing to layer my pictures.
Last, I routinely use Nik Software’s Silver Efex 2 and Color Efex 4.  Both allow very controlled and  unique changes and I highly recommend both.
I’ve posted a prior shot of this guy with cars flying by him. Â This is just one shot when he was patiently waiting for traffic to clear long enough for him to go. Â This shot was edited with Aperture 3, Photoshop 6, and Nik Software Color Efex 4.
Here’s the previous post.
ISO 160 1/30 f/1.4 50mm summilux
No new pics today. I updated my “Gallery” link to show all my prior post (pictures). It’s a good way to quickly see all my work.