{"id":3378,"date":"2009-12-11T08:38:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2009-12-11T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:38:22","slug":"project365-bring-on-the-christmas-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/project365-bring-on-the-christmas-pix\/","title":{"rendered":"Project365: Bring on the Christmas pix!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n our house, the holiday season officially begins on December 4, with Beloved’s birthday.<\/p>\n

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Once we have that out of the way, we can officially get on with the Christmas mania! After the mouse-poop fiasco and a good sanitizing, we decided that we love our Christmas tree too much to sacrifice it.<\/p>\n

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The boys each lost a tooth on Friday, Simon from the bottom and Tristan from the top. So now, they can together sing, “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!” (Somehow, I forgot to upload the picture of Simon. Oops!)<\/p>\n

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One of the restrictions of taking pictures through my Duaflex is that you have a really wide angle of view with a very long depth of field. (Everything is in focus, from close to the camera to the far distance.) I’d seen some talk in the forums on Flickr of using a close-up filter to get a larger image of the viewfinder, which worked well, but had a really interesting effect on depth of field. See how the closest bits of cedar are sharp and those further away are blurred? The close-up filter does that, and for reasons I don’t understand, it also blurs the edges of the viewfinder. <\/p>\n

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(You’ve seen this Christmas mouse already, but you can see the same effect as above.)<\/p>\n

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In addition to being Beloved’s birthday, this week we also celebrated Lucas’s 22 month birthday. He gets cuter by the day, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, I was puttering around the house looking for something to turn into a still life. I started with my grandmother’s antique soup bowl, and then tried adding some clementines. That didn’t work so I started tried some nuts, but it wasn’t very interesting. Then I added my macro filter and got in real close, and this is what I ended up with. (That’s a fairly accurate summary of how I approach most images you see here: something catches my eye as potentially photographable, I try a few different angles and approaches, add some things and subtract some others, refine my approach and end up with a final image — about 20 shots after I started!)<\/p>\n

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Last but definitely not least — poor ol’ Katie, the best doggy in the world. I called this one “All I want for Christmas is some peace and quiet!”<\/p>\n

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Only 40 more days to go!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our house, the holiday season officially begins on December 4, with Beloved’s birthday. Once we have that out of the way, we can officially get on with the Christmas mania! After the mouse-poop fiasco and a good sanitizing, we decided that we love our Christmas tree too much to sacrifice it. The boys each … Continue reading “Project365: Bring on the Christmas pix!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}