So Christine has this Yahtzee addiction. But this time it was productive as I grabbed this shot when she was looking down at the dice. That happens a lot in Yahtzee.

I took this with my Nikon D70 and Nikkor 18-70mm AF-S. It was wide open and at ISO 1000. This caused a little bit of problems. First, there was some noise that I had to take care of with Neat Image. The second problem, which was made a little worse with the noise reduction, was such a narrow depth of field. I was sitting only a couple feet away, so the large aperture, while normally good for portraits, caused her eyebrows to be out of focus. I didn’t notice this on the camera LCD, and I don’t want to have to play Yahtzee again tonight. I should have stopped down a little at this distance, but couldn’t because I was handheld.

I also decreased the midtone contrast with curves in Photoshop because the shadows were a little too much.

Tomorrow I vow to take a photo with lots of light. Or maybe not.