five in five

Today was a day of creativity... my mom and I worked on a set of banners for an upcoming reunion I am working on... She is so crafty. Truly! I am amazed at how she can just figure something out, no pattern, no fancy directions, and it turns out well constructed and beautiful. Classy.

The pics below were taken with my 50mm portrait lens, handheld, while she was sewing. I used my close up filter for the needle shots, too. I was a bit frazzled... usually my subjects aren't moving and I have the luxury of time to set up my shot. But dang it, we had work to do! So, I used a variety of aperture priorty, shutter priority and manual mode. Honestly, I was just trying to snap some cool shots (aren't sewing machinces cool? and the people that sew even cooler?) and not slow her down too much. So, I can't tell you which one is which. I took these in under five minutes and there are five good ones, so I am calling this post "five in five." I did very little processing to these, just the first one (to make it black and white) and the bottom one (I messed with a bunch of things...) I *think* that is about it.

vague. yes.

enjoy.

Thanks for bunch for checking out this wee little post and thanks again to my wonderful mom for all of her help! You're neat. I think I'll keep ya. ;)