Our Family Pics

Posted by DrewB on June 30, 2009 · 21 Comments

Remember way back when we took our family pics? Well, here they are. I love them all!

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You can see more on Tara’s blog. Thank you, Tara!!!

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Golf and Good Light

Posted by DrewB on June 28, 2009 · 8 Comments

It’s Summer! My most favorite time of year. June gloom is officially over and now we can hang out in our backyard, go swimming in the pool, and have barbeque’s. Oh, summer, how I love thee!

Speaking of hanging out in our backyard, we’ve been doing a lot of that lately. I love our new backyard. It’s not huge, but I think by California standards it’s pretty big. I mean, we have grass! That’s a huge step up.

Chuck is a big golfer. Well, I don’t really let him play golf too much anymore, but he still loves it and once Brayden is old enough to play golf they can go out whenever they want! We bought Brayden his first set of clubs and he got his first lesson from Daddy.

All images shot with the 50 1.2 at 2.8, 1/640, ISO 125

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He thinks he likes golf, but for now he’d rather just eat the flags.

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I’m so happy we have such great light in our new backyard! We will be having many more photo shoots out there!

On a side note, this image is for Uncle Steve

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You see, Steve is not a Mom nor a photographer, but he reads my blogs religiously anyways. He says he only reads them before our date nights (BBQ’s) on Thursdays to catch up with our lives, but I know he really likes to read them. He can recite all of my entries by memory, he lets me know when I have grammar or spelling errors, and he teases me for what I write. He’s a good friend like that. I’m pretty sure Steve was jealous of the mushy entries I write for Chuck so here’s one just for you, Uncle Steve. The Bittels love you! Thanks for being such a good friend!

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My Second Full Time Job

Posted by DrewB on June 24, 2009 · 17 Comments

I absolutely love our new house. I’ve been spending the last week driving to different stores ordering light fixtures, furniture, and paint. It’s become another full time job. I’m absolutely horrible at interior design. I may be a little creative when it comes to photography, but that’s just about where my creativity ends. In our old house I found that I was always buying new things for the house because I never had a vision of what I wanted the decor to be. And that’s probably why we repainted our bedroom 3 times in less than 5 years. I knew that I didn’t want to do that in this house. I wanted to buy furniture that was going to last us for more than a year or two. I really wanted to hire an Interior Designer, but knew that I would most likely not be able to afford one that I liked. And then I found Jennifer. I found her blog through a blog of a blog of a blog and I instantly loved it because she puts together outfits. I need help in that department too! As I kept reading I saw that she did virtual interior design as well. I emailed her thinking it was going to be a minimum of $250 a room. I was shocked when she emailed the price back! $75 a room! I immediately asked her to design my office / meeting room, living room, and the room off of the kitchen. I emailed her pictures of the rooms and a sketch with measurements. Not only does she do a 3-D design of the room and tells you where to place furniture and decor she also sources everything that goes into the room! Even down to the business candle holders and trash cans. She works with furniture you already have and works with any budget. I was also very impressed because she included little details in the rooms that really reflect us. She went back and read my blog to really get a sense of who we are and she knocked it out of the ballpark! Here is the office design.

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Everything is pretty much ordered and ready to go, but does anyone know a good (cheap) place to buy black and white damask wallpaper. I love the wallpaper that is in the room, but it’s $90 a roll! Yikes! I’m looking for a cheaper alternative before I commit. I’ll be posting the rest of the house tomorrow! Thanks Jennifer for doing such an awesome job! I’m excited for you to do our bedroom and Brayden’s room too!

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Why Image Quantity on Cards Change

Posted by DrewB on June 23, 2009 · 9 Comments

I really could not think of a good title for this post. It’s late and I’m tired! But, it’s what’s in the post that counts, right?

In the middle of our move I received a question from one of my favorite commentors ever. Bobbie always leaves the nicest and most thoughtful comments on both of my blogs and they always make my day so I knew I had to do this small favor to repay her. Here’s Bobbie’s question:

Okay, I have a 4 GB SD card and when it is totally cleaned off (all images deleted and the card formatted) it says I have 536 (or something like that) images to take. However, I get out there shooting away and it goes WAY over that number. I have my image quality set to fine (I shoot Nikon…. I know, I know, your rolling your eyes!!) and am wondering how/why the card takes more pictures than what it first started out saying? Is it changing the image size and/or quality? I feel like I know NOTHING about image size and quality!!

Great, question Bobbie. I’m sure a lot of people often wonder the same thing and the answer is simple. It’s because you use Nikon Haha. Just kidding! It’s because at some point you are changing your ISO. The higher the ISO the more space an image will take on your card. Look for yourself. Change your ISO to 125 and see how many images it tells you are left. Now change your ISO to 1600. You should have about 150 – 200 less images than you did when you were shooting on the low ISO. The image quality is totally staying the same. Hope that helps!!!