Action Thursday

Thursday, September 18, 2008

On my Nikon D40, I have two action modes. The sports mode is the usual high shutter-speed mode used to take action shots. When the shutter button is pressed halfway, it will continuously focus so you can catch the action. I also have a child mode. This is basically portrait and sports mixed together. It has the high shutter speed to catch all the action, but also enhances skin tones. Also, the sport mode turns off the flash and the child mode allows the flash to be used if needed.

All of these photos were taken using Child mode. My sport mode seems to be not working right. It tries to hard to focus and slows the shutter down. I’m going to have to look into why it does that… I have no doubt that it’s user error.

Water fountain at the park near our place. I had a hard time actually taking this picture because the fountain button was really hard to push. I took about 20 shots that had no water in them!

I was teasing Roxy into thinking I wanted to play with her. But really I just wanted her to move around quickly near my camera 🙂 This was just prior to the death stare that she gave me… Click on this photo and check out her eyes!

I’m making some frosting. I SWEAR my mixer is on. It’s even on high. As in as fast as it goes. As in sometimes I worry about walking away from it because it’s shaking so bad. Dang that’s a fast shutter speed.

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13 Responses to “The Power of Pink!”

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Becca — October 1, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Yay! Can’t wait to participate!
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Amy — October 1, 2009 at 2:20 pm

So exciting! I’m definitely in!
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stephchows — October 1, 2009 at 4:54 pm

what a great way to spread the word! great job!
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blissfullydelicious — October 2, 2009 at 2:49 pm

YGM!!
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Kelsey — October 2, 2009 at 9:14 pm

What a wonderful event. I’m in!
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nutmegnanny — October 3, 2009 at 4:58 pm

This sounds great! I will be participating:)
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Heather — October 3, 2009 at 9:46 pm

This is a fantastic idea!
We are seeing what highlowaha.com can cook up
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CB — October 5, 2009 at 5:13 pm

Sa-weet! Pink is back. Sok if I post the logo/challenge on my blog as a reminder? I have the WORST memory!
/Clara
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Jen — October 5, 2009 at 5:19 pm

Of course I don’t mind CB. Can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!
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Julie — October 9, 2009 at 5:09 pm

If we make more than one pink thing, can we enter more than once? Just curious… I have a few pink things on the horizon so figured it never hurts to ask. 🙂

Glad you brought the pink challenge back!
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Jen — October 9, 2009 at 9:00 pm

Julie – You can definitely enter as many pink items as you make. The more the merrier!
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Dorothy — October 13, 2009 at 7:58 pm

Should we post ON Oct. 31st, before midnight…or do you mean that we can post any time this month as long as it’s before Oct. 31st?
*overthinking it* 🙂
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Shauna — October 16, 2009 at 5:08 pm

This is a great challenge! I will definitely think of something to whip up so I can participate.