Hood Shot

I love clouds and these were pretty cool reflecting off the beautifully clean hood of my blue car.

Double Stuff Not Enough?

Lori made a pie with an Oreo crust. My job was to scrape the cookies and crush them up. I got in touch with my inner Frankenstein and created FramkenOreo!! (Cue the thunder and lightning...)
For the record, I didn't eat it but Hannah took a huge bite of filling out of the middle.

Android Mobile HDR? You got it.

Created with PicSay Pro on my Cliq. Single frame HDR image.

If you're not familiar with HDR it stands for High Dynamic Range. It's typically the process of using several exposures of the same scene and combining them to bring out the shadows and highlights to mimic the wide gamut of light that our eyes can see that the camera can not.
This is my first attempt at the process on my Android phone.
I used the photo editing app PicSayPro to make two different exposures of the same frame, one with the clouds clear and correctly exposed and the other with the mountains and foreground correctly exposed. I opened the first image (The foreground and mountatins) in PicSay Pro then tapped "Effects" then "Insert Picture".
I browsed for the second photo, selected it, and chose the entire photo for the crop.
You then have the option to erase portions of the photo. I used a soft brush to erase the mountains and foreground revealing the correctly exposed portions. Voila! Mobile HDR.
You could make as many layers as you wanted and get very detailed but there are limits in PicSayPro, especially in the output size of the image. All images are output at smaller than 1000 pixels on the longest side. That really limits the usability of the process for printing. The other limitation is the size of the screen vs. the size of my chubby fingers for erasing the top "mask" photo.
But it was a fun exercise and pretty cool result considering it was done on a cell phone while in line at In-N-Out.

Setting Out

This is one of my favorite images from the whole year! I saw this random shopping cart on the side of the road, (Yep, Tooele again...the home of the bizarre.) it looked like it was just about to take off on a journey through the field. I took a few minutes out of my busy day to shoot our intrepid explorer. It's images like this that make this project so fun! I probably would have passed it by if I didn't have the obligation to make an image every day. Hooray for The Project!

Night Train to Kathmandu

I had a wedding today and simply didn't have time to shoot anything til I was just about to head home and realized I hadn't taken anything. I thought a moving TRAX train would be fun since the shutter would drag on its own from lack of light. It turned out nicely. I was going to play a bit more with it in PicSayPro but I was exhausted. What an amazing wedding, though!

(Disclaimer: This post has actually NOTHING to do with Kathmandu, the title of the post comes from a random memory of some of my high school friends renting a movie by that name and losing it, incurring quite a hefty fine...you know who you are.)