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Picture info: ISO 200, 1/250, f/2.50, 50mm, Av

Something one of the kids created. Didn't have much time today to take pix. LAZY.

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Picture info: ISO 200, 1/80, f/5.60, 55mm, Av

I was going to go with a Daily Shoot topic (diagonals) but decided to go with the back to school shot today.

Riley has been fighting a bad, bad cold and you can see some of the results above his lip. He's been blowing his nose a ton and after seeing him tonight, this picture of his lip actually looks good.

Third grade for Hay, first for Riley. From what I heard, it was a great day!

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Picture info: ISO 400, 1/100, f/5.6, 179mm, Av

One of the kids made this spool man sometime this summer. I know not which kid, nor do I know where it was made. All I know is I was scrambling for a photo and Marci dearest suggest spool man because I told her to remind me about spool man when I was scrambling for a photo.

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Picture info: ISO 1600, 1/250, f/4.00, 55mm, M

We went to good ol' Factoria Square for a pre-Easter Easter egg hunt at the little kids' museum they have there. It's a museum for kids. Not a museum of kids. I digress.

Afterwards we walked around a little. I swear there are more vacancies there than occupied spots. It sucks. They did spruce it up a little recently, so it's not the ghetto it once was. I digress.

I needed a new watch battery so we hit the local jeweler for some help. As the man worked on it, you'd think the kids were watching something incredible. I don't think they made a sound the entire time this man had his goggles on. I mean, it was cool, but not THAT cool. Well, not to me, at least.

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Picture info: ISO1600 1/40 f/4.0 70mm

Late last year, I volunteered to be my son's and daughter's class photographer. Basically, the task was to take candid shots of the kids to be put in the yearbook. I took some at Halloween and was there again today to shoot more.

You'd think that by spending 2 hours at a school taking pictures, you'd come up with something cool for Project 365.

Well, that remains to be seen.

I did take lots of kid pictures, but after my recent run in with the law, I'm not about to post any of those without permission (not that they're that post-worthy anyway). I did try to keep P365 in mind, though, so not all my snaps were of kids.

I did learn a few things today. For most of my shots, I did them truly as candids. I wanted the kids to be unaware of me shooting. When I examined Haley's yearbook from last year, I saw that probably 90% of the candids were all taken when the kids were looking into the lens. And you know what? The pictures were way better that way. With the amount of cropping that will be needed for the candids, there's only so many pictures of kids at desks you can look at. So, I think I'm going to see about coming back in and doing headshots or posed pix of the kids goofing around.

The picture I posted is from my daughter's classroom. I guess as the days of school go by, the kids mark off each day on a calendar. I thought that would work nicely with the calendar I'm working on with P365. It's not a very inspired picture. I bumped the clarity and vibrance up a little and warmed it in Lightroom, but I probably could've just left it alone as well.

On an aside, I got Joe McNally's Hot Shoe Diaries from the library yesterday. Pardon the pun, but it's enlightening. There is so much to learn about taking pictures. I'm just scratching (barely) the surface.