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816 consecutive days of photographs under my belt. I call this project the Things I Saw Photo Galleries.
This project first began back in January of 2008 when I decided that I would post one photograph per day, every day.
Things I Saw March 2010 (click to visit the gallery)
Balance | 12:04pm | March 01, 2010 Church Street | 4:29pm | March 02, 2010 Water In Flight | 6:18pm | March 03, 2010 Fireplace At Oakledge | 4:41pm | March 04, 2010 No Time Left | 4:52pm | March 05, 2010 Orange Behind Wire | 2:41pm | March 06, 2010 35 MPH | 5:53pm | March 07, 2010 Fingers | 4:39pm | March 08, 2010 Suds On A Windshield | 4:20pm | March 09, 2010 Shredded Cheese | 5:00pm | March 10, 2010 Iron Curve | 4:46pm | March 11, 2010 Hands | 8:40pm | March 12, 2010 Twins | 3:54pm | March 13, 2010 Eyes Of Blue | 9:59am | March 14, 2010 Gages | 7:03 and 7:04pm | March 15, 2009 Circles | 6:04pm | March 16, 2010 Par | 5:54pm | March 17, 2010 Palabaras de la esceula | 4:47pm | March 18, 2010 Blowing Bubbles | 6:43pm | March 19, 2010 Mike’s Irish Pub | 7:43pm | March 20, 2010 Dim Sum Sunday | 4:31pm | March 21, 2010 Ground Coffee Beans | 7:15pm | March 22, 2010 Raging Mill Brook | 5:16pm | March 23, 2010 USAF Plane | 4:19pm | March 24, 2010 Between Two Towers | 4:32pm | March 25, 2010 On The Cross | 5:07pm | March 26, 2010 Three Birds | 7:11pm | March 27, 2010 Red Stripe | 6:40pm | March 28, 2010 Water On Window | 4:27pm | March 29, 2010 Inside The Blender | 6:26pm | March 30, 2010 Three Knives – 6:40pm – March 31, 2010
Photographer: Me (Michael McKennedy) Date: February 27, 2010 Location: Church Street, Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont Mardi Gras 2010 (click for larger view)
Calling For Beads (click for larger view)
Waldo Wannabees (click for larger view)
Mardi Gras (click for larger view)
Wings Spread (click for larger view)
Round Head (click for larger view)
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Mannequin (click for larger view)
Dealer.com (click for larger view)
Dragon (click for larger view)
Girl With Flowers (click for larger view)
Magic Hat (click for larger view)
Parade End (click for larger view)
Image Title: Cheese and Pepper Time Stamp: 4:28pm Location: Rocky’s Pizza, Williston, Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy
Cheese and Pepper (click for larger view)
Description: While waiting to pick up some of the finest pizza at Rocky’s in Williston, Vermont I snapped this photograph of the cheese and pepper flake dispensers.
About the project: The ‘Things I Saw’ photography project began January 7, 2008. Since then I have shot, edited and posted one photograph per day – every day. As of February 01, 2010 – 757 photographs made it to the Things I Saw photo gallery collection. Each month I post a new gallery. Take a look at all of the Things I Saw photo galleries here.
Image Title: Let It Snow Time Stamp: 5:26pm Location: West Bolton, Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy
Let It Snow (click for larger view)
Description: I shot this photo while I was outside sledding with one of my kids. It was snowing then, and it’s still snowing now (4:51am 01/02/2010)!
About the project: The ‘Things I Saw’ photography project began January 7, 2008. Since then I have shot, edited and posted one photograph per day – every day. As of January 01, 2010 I had taken a total of 26,204 images, 726 of them made it to the Things I Saw photo gallery. Take a look at all of Things I Saw photo galleries here.
Image Title: 4:24pm Time Stamp: Branches Location: Richmond, Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy
Branches (click for larger view)
Description: Stopped to get gas on the way home from work and through my windshield I spotted these branches against another beautiful Vermont sunset backdrop.
About the project: The ‘Things I Saw’ photography project began January 7, 2008. Since then I have shot, edited and posted one photograph per day – every day. As of December 01, 2009 I had taken a total of 24,950 images, 695 of them made it to the Things I Saw photo gallery. Take a look at all of Things I Saw photo galleries here.
Today I had the pleasure of working with one of my favorite models. We thought that it would be interesting to shoot the subject as if the subject were the photographer, hence the name – The Photographer.
The images below were shot today on a tripod in my make-shift studio (okay, so it’s really my living room) and some household light bulbs on a stick (not really on a stick but I did have two 60 watt bulbs perched precariously upon my vacuum cleaner). These image have what I have read as being called the ‘David Hill Effect’ applied to them. I am not comparing my work to David Hill’s or anything as I find his work amazingly inspirational.
I do not have much experience with portrait photography either. I have plenty of self portraits and many photos of my family but I haven’t really tried to stage a shot with lighting and all that. Anyway….that’s what you will see below.
The Photographer Image 01 (click for larger view)
The Photographer Image 02 (click for larger view)
The Photographer Image 03 (click for larger view)
The Photographer Image 04 (click for larger view)
Below are the steps I used in Photoshop to simulate the David Hill Effect. Assuming there is an image open in Photoshop….
duplicate the layer Filter -> Other -> High Pass -> set at 4.0 set the layer to use Vivid Light flatten the layers
duplicate the layer Filter -> Other -> High Pass -> set at 9.0 set the layer to use Color set the layer opacity to 40% flatten the layers
duplicate the layer Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur set at 8.0 Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise set at 3% Layer -> Layer Mask -> Hide All flatten the layers
Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask Amount 100%, Radias 98ish, Threshold 0 (you have to play around with these settings)
The process above was not made up by me and I don’t really know if this is the ‘official process’ either but it works for me so there you go.
