Faceoff

So in Digital Photography, our assignment was "Make an Object Special". I got a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots game for Christmas this past year and thought I could get some great shots of it. This was one of my favorite pictures of all the ones I took. The only editing I did to this picture was crop it to make the composition a little better. Please comment.

Playing With Shutter Speed

Birmingham, AL

Campbell and I decided to spend tonight playing with my new D40x. It was night, so all the pictures I was taking of people weren't turning out well, so I decided to turn the shutter speed down to around 10s or so. I got some great results. The picture above is one of Downtown Birmingham. For this shot, I set the shutter speed to 10 seconds and put it slightly out of focus. I held the camera in my hand and lowered the camera while the shutter was closed. This was my favorite picture of the night.

Homewood, AL

For the second picture, we went to a street in Homewood where the Christmas decorations were still up. There were a few cars on the road, so it added to the irregular motion. For this photo, I set the shutter speed to 4 seconds and rotated the camera on a tri-pod 90 degrees. The bight white light was a car that was driving toward us, and while driving flashed their brights. I think it added an interesting effect to the photo.