Fill Light and Dramatic Skies

Denny and I were messing with the popup flash on the camera to get just the right amount of fill light while keeping the dramatic sky properly exposed. Shots like these can always be better with off camera lighting rather than lighting that is coming from the same direction as the camera. The reason of that is in "real" life, the light that falls on the subjects we see with our natural eyes generally come from a different direction. Face it, we generally don't walk around with a light on our forehead. Applying this basic principle usually can elevate your photos to the next level. That said, even with the flatness of this light, it's still deliver a pretty cool photo, even for a on camera popup. The major reason for this is the dramatic background. We set the exposure for the skies, and then we dialed down the FEC (flash exposure compensation) to -1 or more stop. This helps to eliminate that obvious flash photo look you usually see with snapshot photos. The result is a pleasing photo overall.

Denny on a dark, cloudy day in front of his place

Exploding Poo=Exploding Money

Following up on my post regarding newborns sleeping a lot. Well, there's something else they do a lot of, and I'm not talking about eating. Quite the opposite really. Terrence today perfected the technique he first unleased on Julie in this post here. It's like the trifecta of bodily fluid excretion.

After waking up, Terrence gets fed like normal. In the middle of his feeding, Julie usually changes his diapers because he usually soils them during his sleep and during the first initial feeding he wakes. While switching out his diapers and cleaning him like normal, I hear her let out a loud scream. When I go to check, Terrence had apparently unleashed a string of wet, yellow, breast milk feed poo to explode into the air and hit mom and ultimately end up all over the flood. It was so gross! But if you thought that was it...you were as suprised as Mommy was. As she clean up the first round, and pull out another clean diaper...Terrence decided to fire the second salvo and allow his pee to temporarily escape the bounds of gravity. He wets himself and the new diaper. Mommy calls for reenforcement and daddy came running. As soon as I got there, I see him launch the final attach...he throws up all over his changing pad. LOL...very nice. Dad was proud of his son's new found powers but is also sadden that like the US, each exploding bomb equates to money down the drain. Diapers gets expensive...especially when in a single session, the baby goes through three.

After the attacks were done, Terrence just laid there...with almost a smug look on his face...so content and he didn't let out a single peep. He knew his job was done for the day. The only left was to get change, finish feeding and finally sleep to dream up of the next ways to attack Mommy. Nice...the joy of being a baby. I would say, enjoy the pictures...but this is one that many of you guys rather I not share. LOL...gotta have the good along with the ugly ya know.

Exploding Poo...looks kidda like Grey Poupon