Skipping Yesterday

Yes, I'm aware I didn't post any pictures yesterday. I actually stayed indoors the entire day and lounged around, so I took zero pictures. :P

Here are the ones for today and 3 to make up for yesterday's.


It was lovely weather today... until it started to get cloudy and rained :( So here's a pretty after-rain shot I took a while back. :)

Just another sunny day!

Wonderful weather today! :D Here are the pictures I took while I was on my way to Southside.

Did a better job this time with taking pictures from the hip! :)

Outing

My boyfriend and I randomly decided to go down to Pleasanton to watch Alice in Wonderland in 3-D. Of course, we took the BART, no surprise there. :P


Evil glare! >:(

Time

Here are my 3 pictures for today:

Too bad I didn't have the power to make that car move

Due to the protests, my afternoon class got canceled. So being bored to death, I decided to walk around a bit, you know, that scary thing called exercise. I got a few interesting shots.

I was rather surprised when I saw those weeds growing not on the sidewalk, but up above


I also tried out taking pictures from the hip. Pretty much I had my camera by my side and was clicking away for a few blocks. It seems I was tilting the camera a bit, since there wasn't any uphill, but interesting shots nonetheless.

After the Rain

I was afraid that it would be raining all day and that I wouldn't be able to take any pictures, but thankfully the weather cleared up a bit and there was sun!






I think the awesome part about taking pictures when there's rain is the night shots. Car lights, street lights, the reflections, and all seem to come together and make it all pretty and nice!


It's bad quality, because I took this picture way back in the day with the Olympus camera

Today's

So I figured, punishment for not taking the minimum three pictures... make up for it by taking them and putting them up in the next post.

Here are the ones for today and the 5 to make up (3 from yesterday, 2 from the day before)



I definitely need to get out/explore more. Hopefully I can get better shots soon!

Over the Weekend...

Had a fun weekend with friends up in Tahoe, and I did remember to take pictures Friday and Saturday... but I failed on Sunday. :(

So here are the ones for Friday (2/26/10)


Saturday (2/27/10)

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Need I say more? ;)

Sunday (2/28/10)

Was hoping that it wouldn't turn out blurry :(

3 a day to keep laziness at bay...

So, because of my recent laziness with taking pictures, I figured I should come up with something that would keep me into photography like I used to. The bright idea solution: take three pictures a day of just things I felt needed to be captured and post them here. And the pictures aren't supposed to be a representation of my day like a journal, but of a moment that I felt needed to be captured on "film" so to speak.

These aren't the ones from today, but a week or two ago. I still wanted to put them up.



Rain or shine, I'm hoping to get some interesting shots! :)

And snow... will be at Tahoe over the weekend, but will have 9 pictures ready to upload when I get back... I hope!

DC... as in Dream Camera

So, now that I've gone through the digital cameras I've owned, here's the dream camera that I want.

No surprise, it's Canon EOS 50D. Obvious reason, it's a DSLR and not an automatic. So, more freedom for me to pick shutter speed, aperture, ISO and all that fun stuff. Another reason is that even though I've taken a few pictures with DSLRs before, it takes me a bit of time to recall all the buttons and functions. I'd personally want one so that I can get comfortable with using one. (I always have a fun time trying to remember how to change the aperture on different DSLRs... such a waste of time)

This reason is a bit of a stretch, but I'd also like to practice taking pictures with different lenses. Since I can't do that right now, I also struggle when taking pictures with different lenses. In the end, no matter how many times I've heard someone explaining all this camera stuff to me, practice is the best way of learning it.


It's never too early to plan for birthday or Christmas ;)

DC #2

I'm a little surprised that I suddenly got lazy with keeping up with this blog. Especially how I was able to maintain it for a few days straight... :(

Anyways, continuing from the last post, the second digital camera, also the current one I have, is my Nikon Coolpix 7900. Why did I switch cameras to this one? Well, my dad's friend's son works for Nikon, so he gave me/my dad the camera as a thank you present. Of course the Olympus was supposed to be my dad's, so the Nikon ended up being an early birthday present to me during senior year of high school.

Mine still has that sticker with the camera features on it :P

As nice of a camera it is, I wish there were some features that it had. These include: being able to change ISO or shutter speed or aperture, better macro zoom, and blurriness. There are digital cameras (non-SLR) that have the feature to change ISO or shutter speed or aperture, and yet mine lacks it, so it'll always be at ISO 400 and at f4. I tend to shoot a lot of nature or still life shots, but crappy zoom tends to make just a bout 99% of the pictures useless. Blurriness, this is more of shutter speed and such, but my camera has issues taking pictures at night. I guess I could try getting a work out by lugging my tripod around with me... or not.

Beyond the above issues, this camera has gone through a lot of picture taking moments. And 2 damages... bit of scratching due to drop, and the battery compartment lid doesn't close because one part of the plastic has broken off. Yup, it's gone through quite a bit of love.