DIS Digi-Scrappers Challenge #5 (5/14 - 5/20)

[labdogs42]

Thanks. I shot all of those with my new Nikon D40 DSLR. The lens is a Nikkor 18-55 lens. I was shooting in autofocus with no flash. The best fireworks photos I ever took were with our old Sony that wrote to cd. It took the best nighttime photos. We just got this camera in December and I'm not quite used to it. I play with other modes, but stay on one of the autofocus ones for normal stuff. The key to getting a good photo is to take lots of them!

I just looked at the properties of the fireworks photo on my page. These are the settings autofocus used:
fstop = f/8
ISO = 1250
exposure = 1/250 seconds
focal meter = 23mm

I'm still learning about all these settings, so it's interesting to look at properties to see what the camera "chooses" on autofocus.

Thanks again. I have some decent fireworks pics on my blog if you look back in past years. Some of my favorites are at: http://beentheredonethatgoingback.blogspot.com/2005/06/wishes.html

Thanks for the scoop! Do you recall where you were standing for the pictures? It looks like you had a nice angle, too. I shoot Canon (let's not start THAT conversation! ) and I have the 20D. I started messing around with the program modes on my last trip for the fireworks and I was really happy with the results. Here
are some of my shots to share!

So, the Nikon chooses the ISO setting, too? That's interesting. Did you choose any of the settings manually or were they all chosen by the camera? Sorry to get so in-depth here, but I'm so obsessed with Disney photography and now that I understand some of the basics, I'm getting worse!!

 

[Tinker326]

Cute layouts everyone. And thanks for the great kit Britt- it's awesome!
There's an especially cute little baby back on page 3 with his first Mickey Ears! (That cutie is my nephew, had to give a biased shout out!!!)

Here's my submission. It'll be my title page for my recent trip-

All items are from Britt's kit. Thanks again for it. You spoil us!

 

[Fran98765]

i like how you did your list, great page!

 

[sleepingbean]

me too : ) The change in color makes the list really pop

 

[Caitsmama]

Great job tinker! I think everyone got their lo's done super early this week.. LOL See what happens when you inspire us Britt?!

Susan, we must have had the same ol' Sony camera -- geeez.. what was it's name?? I loved that camera.. and those mini discs were too cute! It took me a while to get use to a memory card after that! LOL

 

[ngneer98]

great job tinker! What cute little nieces I have!

All the entries are really amazing this week....poor Britt!!

 

[tgmousechick]

I am LOVIN' all of the layouts- awesome job!!!!

I finished mine last night, and had a chance to print it out this afternoon at work (I took my wide format printer to work to print some large pictures for counting)- it looks FABULOUS, if I do say so myself.

Britt- this is a wonderful kit- the colors popped right off the paper!!!

 

[designerbrittney]

kswm - LOVE this!! I love the ric rac edging the photos. GREAT photos too! I love how you're slowly getting sucked into digi! HAHA

Caitsmama - SO CUTE!!! LOVE the giant photo! It's sooooo cute. The palm tree cut out is ADORABLE! Wow. Awesome awesome page!!

Tinker326 - Adorable!! I love the journaling. It made me tear up. I'm such a freak! Haha. I love this!!!

Tgmousechick - ADORABLE! I love how you made a triple Mickey frame! VERY clever!!! I really love what you've created here!!

Everyone has just blown me away! I'm so glad you are all having such fun with this challenge!

 

[Hypermommy]

Tinker - the changes in color do make a list from what would have been a paragraph or something. That's really clever!! I think I'll have to scraplift that idea somewhere.

mousechick - what a cutiepie! Love the Mickey frame!

 

[vanyel]

Wow, these are all impressive and it's amazing what different takes everyone had on the same kit.

 

[loveGoofy]

Tinker - Great photo and great LO. I love how you captured all of your highlights on your cover page. I think I will be scraplifting that idea for our upcoming vacation.

 

[kswm30b]

I think I'm going to be lazy and wait until the end of the challenge to respond to everyone's LOs! It's amazing how different everyone's LOs look, from using just the same basics.

Can I say again how great I think this challenge is? It's one thing to have a set of rules based on theme, but being given products to use, I think it really stimulates the creativity of everyone.

Beautiful! Awesome job! See digital scrapbooking isn't too bad.

Thanks Hey, never said it was bad! Just didn't know if it was for me (and if I would be good at it. )

kswm - LOVE this!! I love the ric rac edging the photos. GREAT photos too! I love how you're slowly getting sucked into digi! HAHA

Do you know that just in the last few weeks or so, when I've been addicted to looking at these digital threads, I've downloaded almost 3 GB of freebies!?! How crazy is that?? I don't even know what I'm doing, but I just keep downloading every cool looking kit I can find!

 

[Fran98765]

Do you know that just in the last few weeks or so, when I've been addicted to looking at these digital threads, I've downloaded almost 3 GB of freebies!?! How crazy is that?? I don't even know what I'm doing, but I just keep downloading every cool looking kit I can find!

We have all been there, we have all done that. It's part of being new to digi! Eventually you will find your style and stop downloading EVERYTHING!! I used to spend at least an hour, maybe more hours lol downloading every day! Now I do 3-4 freebies each day and I sometimes miss them too! And I don't usually mind too much, depends on designer!!

 

[wenrob]

Tinker your journaling choked me up as well, beautiful page!

Mousechick, great take on this kit, awesome page!

 

[Tinker326]

We have all been there, we have all done that. It's part of being new to digi! Eventually you will find your style and stop downloading EVERYTHING!! I used to spend at least an hour, maybe more hours lol downloading every day! Now I do 3-4 freebies each day and I sometimes miss them too! And I don't usually mind too much, depends on designer!!

Yhea, it's too bad I have a full time job because digital scrapping COULD be a full time job. There are many, many days that I feel resentful that my work is getting in the way of my scrapping and persuing of new kits to download.....

THanks everyone for the kind words on my layout!

 

[sleepingbean]

tgmouse, that kit seemed to be the perfect color combo for your photo shoot! I love it

 

[designerbrittney]

YAY!! I finally found some time (while my hubby watches the Jazz game) to scrap MY entry!!



Click image for credits (they are quite lengthy!!) or to read the journaling more zoomed in!

These are pics from a "Disney Dinner" that Josh's brother and his wife threw for all of us Disney-nuts! It was a blast and I hope they are planning another one soon!!

I had fun with this challenge and I'm glad the rest of you are as well!!!

 

[GrumpyMom1]

Here's my entry. I played around with it a lot before I settled with this version and I'm still not sure I like it. I guess I need to do some more this weekend to get the creative juices flowing.

 

[labdogs42]

Britt -- I love the idea of the Disney Dinner! Too bad my friends are all lame and wouldn't be into it...

GrumpyMom-- I think your LO is adorable! If I was going to change anything, I might tilt the bracket and text a little to the right, but I think it looks good the way it is, too. I like to tilt things on my LOs, in case anyone hasn't noticed!

 

[Caitsmama]

Britt - a disney dinner is such a cool idea!!! But, like jess, i don't have enough disney nuts around me - which is why i hang out here.. LOL

Grumpy mom, love the way you used that circle to zoom on the holding hands.. so cute!