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Nothing Special

Posted in Photo Stories on Thursday July 8, 2010 | 13 comments

I’ve been having a hard time accessing my site lately. Yesterday the server was down for 30 minutes. Daily, I cannot access my site for at least a short period of time. I don’t know what’s going on, but after talking it over with my host, it seems it might be either WordPress, my browser or both. (She didn’t suggest these things to me, that’s what I think they might be.)

The whole thing is terribly frustrating and I’m to the point where I have no idea what could possibly help except changing hosts. I signed up with a trial dreamhost again, but it is a HUGE pain to transfer everything over. There are nine years worth of databases and files over here. I don’t really look forward to moving and wish I could just figure out what my problem is.

Anyway, since I actually have access to my WordPress Dashboard at the moment, I figured I would take a break from trying to figure it all out and participate in Pixel Perfect’s Before and After Blog Hop. For more bloghops going on today, check out my Be Inspired page!

Yesterday was a fairly emotional day for all of us and I was too depressed to pick up a camera. Late at night I went ahead and snapped just a few shots to make sure I wouldn’t be cheating myself in Project 365.

07-07-10 - Playful Lens Cap SOOC

This shot was taken of my lens cap for no other reason than to illustrate how close I can get to a subject with the 50mm. This is as close as it comes. It makes hand-held self-portraits impossible and of course rules out macro photography completely. If Noah’s birth certificate ever gets here (I have my doubts) then I’ll be able to submit our tax return and possibly get a new lens. Not that I don’t love my 50mm, because I do, but I want to grow beyond its limitations.

I like the colorful blurriness of the toys in the background and decided to use some of Parée Erica‘s textures to be more playful with it.

07-07-10 - Playful Lens Cap

Not spectacular or anything, but this is what happens when I have a crap day.

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13 Responses to “Nothing Special”

  1. Ramblings and Photos Ramblings and Photos says:
    Thursday July 8, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    I love what you’ve done and thanks for introducing me to Paree Erica. I always love great resources for texture.
    Ramblings and Photos´s last blog ..Simplicity- ColorMy ComLuv Profile

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    • Lynda Lynda says:
      Thursday July 8, 2010 at 5:37 pm

      Thanks! I’m not sure her stuff is really geared toward photographers, but she has a lot of playful textures, like rainbow swirls and rainbow bokeh!

      I recently visited your inspiration page and there’s lots of great resources there too, so thanks for that. :)

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  2. Ari Ari says:
    Thursday July 8, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    I’m still playing with using textures. I don’t think i have it right yet! Nice edit.

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    • Lynda Lynda says:
      Thursday July 8, 2010 at 5:41 pm

      Thanks Ari! What editing program do you use?

      I have Photoshop CS3 and put textures into a new layer, usually in soft light or overlay blending mode and lower the opacity. I also use layer masks to erase the effect from parts of the photograph.

      There are a lot of resources out there to learn how to apply textures. Patti Brown makes textures and has several videos on how they can be applied. They are using her own textures and overlays of course, but the principle applies to any texture!

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  3. OJ Photo OJ Photo says:
    Thursday July 8, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    Great Photo – Got to Love the Nikon! I like your nice edit as well!
    OJ Photo´s last blog ..Shhhh – Before and AfterMy ComLuv Profile

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  4. mindy mindy says:
    Thursday July 8, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    well that is a really cool texture then because it turned out super!
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  5. Johanna Johanna says:
    Thursday July 8, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    Super cool texture! I’m sorry you’re having such trouble with your server/WP though. That’s no fun.
    Johanna´s last blog ..Before -amp After — Hue-SaturationMy ComLuv Profile

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  6. Flickr: Faith R Flickr: Faith R says:
    Friday July 9, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    very cute. love the colorful background.

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  7. Dave Q, UK Dave Q, UK says:
    Sunday July 11, 2010 at 4:26 am

    Sweet edit.

    thanks for your generous comments and for dropping by my page.
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  8. Robyn Robyn says:
    Friday July 16, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    We all have crap days, but hey, at least you still took a pic! That’s great! : ) (I too do the Project 365.. It can be challenging!) I don’t have a 50mm yet, but that’s my next buy! Thanks for the link to Paree Erica.. I love new textures!
    Robyn´s last blog ..Look at what I spiedMy ComLuv Profile

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  9. Flickr: Kirstea Flickr: Kirstea says:
    Sunday July 18, 2010 at 10:23 am

    That’s so sweet! :D

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