#1 My Home Town

My town held it's annual "Buggy Festival" yesterday so it was a great opportunity for some "Home town" shots. The Buggy Festival has a little of everything. I didn't get a good shot of a Buggy, but I'm sure I will post one later in the week.

1/125, f8.0, ISO 100

1/125, f16, ISO 100

Wildlife refuge was also at the festival with some beautiful birds.

1/40, f5.6, ISO 100

1/30, f5.6, ISO 100

#7 Affection

1/60, f8.0, ISO 400

#6 Affection

I thought about taking a shot like this all week, but was afraid it may be a stretch for the theme and some might think it morbid. Today I decided I had to take. I stopped at my town's cemetery and walked around until I found one that spoke to me. I guess you could say this is how we show affection after one has died.

 

1/400, f4.0, ISO 200, Cropped

Affection

I took these picts of my neighbors kids this past Sunday. I had a lot of light issues. I have spent a lot of time in Photoshop color correcting and I think I finally got them to look decent. I didn't post my setting as I have changed these so much in Photoshop I didn't think it would help.

#5 Affection

1/100, F3.5, ISO 400

#4 Affection

She got her right on the lips. Iikk

1/200, f5.6, ISO 400
 Here is a B&W cropped version.

#3 Affection

It was raining out when I took these so the light wasn't great, but I love the girl's expression. Hard to get real smiles out of them at this age. The 1st is my favorite, while the girl's liked the 2nd. The 2nd image was a challenge to color correct as the umbrella gave a bad blue cast to their skin.I'm trying to get skin tone correct so any CC will be helpful.

1/200, f4.5, ISO 200

1/200, f4.5, ISO 400, pp on skin tones