About Naomi Figueroa Photography

Traveling. Farmer‘s markets. Changing of seasons. Latin America. Cooking. The color blue (definitely not pink). Maine. Fresh fruits and veggies. Photography. Big dogs (if you‘re going to be a dog, be a DOG). Writing. The smell of pine trees. Jesus. Teenagers. Speaking Spanish (or trying, at least). Learning. Fair trade coffee. Dancing salsa with my husband. Nature. Family.

Just a few snippets of my life, but it all comes out in my photography because it is part of who I am. The why of everything I do is to bring glory to God. He is the ultimate Creative and the reason that we have this wonderful gift of being able to create, whether our medium is art or language or technology or music.

I‘m so glad you stopped by my blogsite. I hope you‘ll enjoy exploring a bit. Leave some love in the comments, or send me a note on the contact page! :D

Archive: ‘Photography--Animals’



Top 9 Countdown

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Hey, guys! So, I should probably say I’m sorry for being MIA the last little while. But here I am, back on the bandwagon, with a short little post chock full of pictures. If chock full = nine.

So you might know that I’ve been doing this Project 365 thing, and I’ve already got 65 days down! It’s been pretty awesome so far, and I’m excited for the next 300 days. So, here’s my top 9 favorites so far…(mmm, sorry. It’s not really a countdown, it just sounded catchy.)

Love portraits, and so happy to have successfully executed some back lit shots!

Funniest shot ever.

Favorite of all so far. Oooh, you should see the B&W version.

So, thanks for stopping by! Keep being awesome.

-Naomi

A Glimpse of Spring

Monday, January 18th, 2010

As I peered out my kitchen window to check on our dog this afternoon (as she enjoys finding ways to escape our fenced-in yard), I quite literally laughed out loud. Now, it’s not an unusual occurrence for me to see Sabana doing something humorous out there–watching her play in a foot and a half of snow was quite amusing; yesterday, she “located” Rich’s lost set of keys and was quite content to chew on them for some time; but today…today was well worth a picture.

Mind you, she is still a puppy and does not like to sit still…nor has she quite learned not to jump up. With a treat, I managed to get away unscathed.

Photo Challenge: Shooting Manually 1

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

In my last post I reflected on 2009 and told you about some of my goals for 2010. One of those goals is a challenge for myself to understand light and exposure more by intentionally shooting a subject each week–in manual mode.

Ahh, the elusive M on my camera dial. I’m diving in head first, and today I took some shots of our cat Quincy. I’m quite sure you’ll see many more photos of him, as well as our dog, as they are always cute and always willing! So today I took 23 photos of Quincy, which I narrowed down to about 5 and chose two of my favorites to show you. Both shots were slightly underexposed, so I have the before and after here. My goal is to get to a point where I don’t have to play with the exposure in editing, but here’s what I’ve got for now!

3Quincy-016The exposure was f/2.8 and 1/640, ISO 400, window light at around 3:30 PM in the winter. I bumped the exposure up a little over 1/2 stop.

3Quincy-003This exposure was originally f/2.0 and 1/50, ISO 400, inside about 6-8 feet from window light, around 3:30 PM on a winter afternoon. I also bumped this exposure up a little over 1/2 stop.

That’s all for now! Stop back again soon for some of my Christmas vacation shots!

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