Obligatory Cat Photo
This is Griffin sitting in his favorite spot. I attempted to use fill flash on this one but couldn’t get it to fire fast enough. This looks darker than I remember it being — I took a few with different manual settings before he eventually ran away from me, but none of them seemed quite right.
Getting Ready
I was packing for a trip to a conference on Wednesday morning. When I pack, I have a habit of throwing everything I’m going to take onto the bed and then splitting it up into bags from one giant pile. I was down to little stuff by the time I took this photo (the camera was previously in the pile).
Bagels
I love this bagel shop because of its huge case right in the front (and because it has pumpernickel bagels, let’s be honest). I initially wanted to get the case straight-on so it would fill the whole frame with just bagels, trays, and labels, but the glare was awful. I still have more glare than I’d like, especially on the left side.
I see only a little glare in the bagel shot — straight on would have been nice geometry, but I like this shot, too! As one of my instructors always says, photography is problem-solving. If you can’t take the picture you WANT, figure out what you CAN do. Exactly what you did here. Nice that we can read the labels, at the same time that this seems casual. Glad you’ve got the images on Flickr — remind us to work with your cat photo on Flickr. A good way to show people who haven’t seen them Flickr’s/Piknik’s editing tools.