Sunday, May 5, 2013

Ellen's Graduation

Today I went to a friends graduation and a celebration dinner afterward. The ceremony was at the Veterans Memorial Arena so I didn't want to hassle with my camera bag. I decided to take my camera with my Sigma 17-50mm f2.8. It clearly wasn't long enough from where we were sitting. Examples in a bit..

Before arriving, I read on the FSCJ website that they had a city bus listing all the names of the graduates as a congratulations. I wanted to see it and it was pretty difficult to miss.

City bus wrapped with names of graduates

Close up of city bus names

Test shot of arena as graduates entered. I ended up liking it with this black and white edit.

An example of having the wrong lens. I used the big screen to take a closer picture of my friend as she walked on stage.

This was shot at 50mm from a long distance and cropped over 100%.

We trekked across the arena to meet the graduates as they left so Elin could give Ellen her flowers. The moment was captured but the shot was missed in my opinion. Two things went wrong. The hand in the way which I had some control over, and the focus mode was on single instead of servo or continuous.


After the ceremony, waiting for dinner, a little nap time.

Still napping. I tried to get the dogs eyes closed. Converted to B&W. I dropped the clarity to make it look slightly dreamy.

My lovely girlfriend relaxing under a blanket on the couch.

Gift time. It's not easy to shoot Ellen with a smile.

Another smile with her gift.

Arwen, an older cat didn't get along with the new kitties too well.

Final image of Ellen with her four foster kittens.



Although most images were posted, check out the full set over on Flickr

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