April 23, 2012

Trigger Happy

Now, this is not like me at all to be writing something like this, BUT I found a app in development for a thing called trigger happy. Now you see I love time laps photography. I started doing some in New Zealand. Haven’t had the chance here. I usually do start trails. I spent a long time looking for a intvalomeater. Now there is a app coming out for the iPhone and I think they are supporting android too.

Now I do not even own a smart phone (yet) But I know I would so look into getting this app. Right now if you pledge 50$ and they are done with developing it you will get it sent to you. It will be on the market for 69.90 so you would save a bit more. Now if you are into time laps this may be something to look into.

I can see myself spending that money to getting one of these, as it is allot easer to use then a intervalometer I have.

I have a canon DSLR, and they do not make intervalometers for there xxxD or there xxD serries. They only have a shutter reales cord or remote. So if you are wanting a intervalometer for a canon you need to get a 3rd party device. If this was around a year ago and I owned a smartphone this probably would of been my choice.

To have a look at there idea go here or there facebook page or google+

April 20, 2012

Fix it Friday

  Photo Challenge Submission

Its been ages since I have taken part in a fix it Friday. Actually I nearly take part each week, but I never save the photo, I just edit it then delete it. today I decided to save it and post it. What do you think? I wish I could get my photos looking like this SOOC, but I think I am a long way away from that. 

 

 

 

Here is my edit.

  • First I cropped the image (I know my sooc is cropped too)
  • ran the MPC mini fusion action
  • Increased the darken layer
  • Activated on cloud nine
  • Removed warm tint and hazy
  • Flatten
  • Ran coffee shop powder room 2
  • Adjusted the layers to my liking
  • saved for web

Fix it friday from I heart faces

To get this image head on over to Iheartfaces.com

April 18, 2012

EASTER

I had originally written this post for I took the pintrest challenge, but then while waiting for the post to come on Friday I noticed it was gone. So there for it is now with Create and shear, the first project is me and Ms Mar dying Easter eggs.The second one what I wanted to show for the Pinterest challenge.

So we had a grate Easter. We were at my grandparents, just the weather wasn’t playing with us. It was snowing and windy and cold. So we were inside most of the time. But mostly we had fun.

Ms Mar and I coloured Easter eggs. Ms Mar did a grate job. We used thread that we put in dye or we used leaves to get the impressions on the eggs. After we put the thread or the leaves on the egg up wrapped it in a stocking and then dipped it into the colours.

She made the blue eggs I did the others.

 

 

I made some Easter eggs out of a method I found on pintrest. Though I changed it a bit.

My first mition was to get 2 small lindt Easter bunnies 6 lindt Easter eggs and a little chick I made into a VERY small balloon. I was considering getting bigger balloons but in the end I did it.

BEFOR

AFTER

After that I wrapped the eggs with the yarn, I just used normal yarn, not embroding yarn. Then hang them up to dry. Since the weather wasn’t good so it took nearly a day to dry.

After I popped the balloons I threaded a ribbon through the balloons and they looked cute. The grandparents all loved them.

I hope you all had a grate Easter too.

March 25, 2012

A blog I have neglected & my way over due winner give away.

I love blogging, but right now we just came back to Austria about 6 weeks ago. I have been busy. First, I applied for Mrs Mar to be home-schooled for the rest of her kindy year, as in Austria she is still too young to go to school. I did not wan to send her back to a kindy after visiting a school. So home-school it was. It is a grate adventure. I had about a 24 page circulaium to read through and plan on. I ended up writing over a A4 page of when I will be doing with her to reach all the goals they ask for. Most of the stuff they want you to do, I already do. I am collecting ideas and recourses over on pintest (may I say I am addicted) I have 2 boards for luring aspects, one EDUCATION and the other CRAFTS

Mr Mar Jr also turned 3. Can you believe it, my baby boy is 3 years old now. Time has gone by so fast. He is FINNALY potty trained. He was going pee in the loo before he turned 3, but my conversations often went like this.

Mrs Mar: Where dose poo go?
Mr Mar Jr: In the toilet.
Mrs Mar: Where dose Mr Mar do his poo.
Mr Mar Jr with a huge grin on his face: NAPPIES

Yeh, he knew but didn’t cear. So I was at a loss. Till about 2 weeks after we arrived back in Austria, I asked where did Mr Mar Jr go, well he was upstairs sitting on the toilet. When he then called. MUM came and wipe my bum, me poo. From that day on he was toilet trained. Really it just had to click in his brain. We are also stoped using nappies at night. As he had been waking up dry for AGES, but since it was a hit and miss during the day I just left them on at night too. So glad we are behind nappies.

Ms Mar is still going to her “afterschool” activates, gym and ballet. We have no started running, in July we will be running with 30,000 other woman in the woman's run this will be my 3rd time running the 5km race. And Ms Mar will be running for the first time. I think we will be walking half of it. But still we will get to the end. It is all about motivating woman to run. Once a week we meet with other woman for free training. I really enjoy this and Ms Mar has been asking for about 2 years to go along. So this time I said yes, she will be 6 by then, what I think is ok. If on the day she says it is too much and doesn't want to that's fine, she wont have too. But I doubt she will say that.

Now photography wise, I haven’t been doing much since getting back from New Zealand. Though about a month before I left I asked a friend of mine who was about to have her first baby if I could take photos of her new born, I LOVED it.

I had so much fun, it took 4 hours, but we were only doing photos for about 1 hour as it took her 3 to go into deep sleep. I had to then rush off to take a neighbours car to the garage.  Now I am trying to find clients in Austria who want me to take photos. The only down side is I am not allowed to open up a photography business here, as I would need to spend ALOT of money first getting courses they want me to have before I am legally allowed to open up a photography business. I think photography is a form of art, going to school would defiantly help, but if people like it then why can’t I do it… I will have to find away around it.

For more photos cheek out my facebook page.

Also to those who remember I did a giveaway on my blog, well, I gotta say, I never actually gave it away. But since I only had 3 comments/entires, I have decided to just give each of you one, LOL, are you still reading this blogs feed…

They were.

Ashley Sisk over at Ramblings and Photos

Amy over at Artistically Amy

and

Ewa over at Blueberry Craft and Hobby Time

You can head on over to this Facebook page of mine and have a bit of a look around what you like and chose your own design, or chose one of the finished plates. Tell me what you want written on it.

I keep saying saying I will get back into blogging, but I think i’ll just post once in a blue moon. Though I do miss cheeking out the blogs.

February 20, 2012

I Heart Faces ~ Hugs & Kisses

When I opened Facebook this morning and saw the theme for I heart Faces being hugs and Kisses I new exactly what photo I would be entering. And it has been a LONG time since I have entered anything due to the fact of having landline, now I am back to having broad band.

One I took as we were playing down by the ocean in Auckland, just after we arrived there, just under a year ago. Now sitting back in Vienna, I miss it. Even more knowing how warm there summer turned. Though we have had a grate time in the snow here. The sun is still nicer.

The kids were sitting on the side of a wall, when I told them to kiss, what would a 2 and 5 year old do. Sibling love, why is it now that they can fight just as much as they can be nice and love each other.

My 2 Darlings.
Day 111

So head on over to iheartfaces.com to see more grate photos including Faces.

February 15, 2012

Week 52 of Project 365 – LAST DAY

DONE, WOW one year has past and I have done it. Only missed 15 days. I learnt so much during this year. Now on to my next project, it has only taking  me 2 months to finish posting the photos, BUT, the photos were all taken at the correct time. So here is my last photo of project 365. Now at some point I want to start a new project, called one year to a better photographer, were I will be going through new things each week, and luring about them. Not quite as much stress as doing a project 365, I am really glad I stuck to it. Now I also hope to be able to enter more linkys again. Also being back in Austria it will be easer as I have broadband and no more landline.

DAY 365
Trauriges Smiley NOW, I had taken a photo BUT I dropped my hard drive and hadn’t put it online yet. SO ITS GONE, though still 2 months later trying  Trauriges Smiley
to work out how to get my photos back.
 
Currently I am playing to do a online back up too, I will be using flickr to store photos online as a 3rd back up. and one that backs up start away with CF cards that have WIFI on it. I have not done it yet, but it will happen VERY soon.
 
 
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Week 52 of Project 365

DAY 358
Missed This Day.
DAY 359
First time using my intervalometer and put the camera on Manuel not bulb. So instead of taking 2min exposures, I was taking 13sec exposures 2 mins apart. This is what happened....
Day 359

DAY 360
The kids always ran wild during and after I was doing the lawn.
Day 360

DAY 361
My ballerina in her stage outfit.
Day 361

DAY 362
Mr Mar jr decided to eat his breakfast this way for a while, in the washing basket with his wetbex in his lunchbox.
Day 362

DAY 363
Playing tea party at playcenter.
Day 363

DAY 364
My bread, it was a hollow bread but I filled it with meat loaf, cool surprise.Day 364