Picturing Relaxation: Salvaging some shots....or trying to anyway...

My camera is broken right now and sitting at the fix it shop waiting to be fixed. I can't be out shooting so I'm working on the last batch of images that I was able to take with the camera. None of the images are great because I was having so many problems with exposure with the camera.

This is my mom and dad's cat, Buddy. He's huge and fruit. He sounds like a dog when he's running through the house. When he runs, it's as if he back end doesn't communicate with his front end and his hilarious!

12/25/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/5 sec; ISO400; all in one clean edit with hand edits

12/25/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/15 sec; ISO400; all in one clean edit, adjust exposure -71; adjust contrast +36, hand edits

12/25/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/2000 sec; ISO100; all in one clean edit

12/25/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/100 sec; ISO100; all in one clean edit; cropped; hand edits

12/25/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/1250 sec; ISO100; all in one clean edit; vignetting; hand edits

I don't remember when this was taken. I was driving to work one morning. Added Blaze preset.

12/26/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/8 sec; ISO3200; all in one clean edit then BW Barley.
It was raining and I was trying to capture the dreariness of the night.

12/26/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/8 sec; ISO3200; all in one clean edit then SS Sepia.
It was raining and I was trying to capture the dreariness of the night.

12/26/2015; 50mm; f1.8; 1/8 sec; ISO3200; all in one clean edit then Silver Dream.
It was raining and I was trying to capture the dreariness of the night. This one is my favorite and is the most accurate of my thought of what I wanted to capture.

I was trying to make the stars again. It worked. I liked these different iterations. I wish the weather was better and I could have different opportunities to shoot. Of course, if my camera had been working properly and I had my tripod....it would have been different!! haha. But, these aren't bad for what I was working with.