PANDAISM

Got my SD14 back today! Haven’t been playing with it but I did test it. It is sharp! My auto and manual focus values match now! I’ll post more when the time comes. Here is just a little bit of fooling around I did with a ceiling light.

Take an ordinary unassuming ceiling light.

Marry it with a tweaked/calibrated 30mm (50mm equiv).Throw in a dash of 1/8 shutter speed with my medium 4.5 aperture and stir it up while taking the picture and Voila! Art?

see bigger sizes of the other pics at my Flickr

Well I thought it wouldn’t happen again but it did.

Doing things last minute for CCNA…I’m going to catch up and have more time but all in good time. I really can’t afford to do what I did last semester (I need to get my photography time in…)

Speaking of Photography, I sent my SD14 and 30mm lens to Sigma last week to get the lens calibrated, so I won’t have it for a while. I really want to pick up my Pentax and shoot some film for a while but I haven’t decided on B&W or 800 ISO color…

Here is a sample of my film work I posted on my Flickr (I hope I can still do this stuff).

“1/125 f/3.5 give or take”
w/ SMC Pentax-M 135mm f/3.5

Pentax KM
“1/125 f/4 @ 200mmgive or take”
w/ Polar 70-200mm f/4 1:4 MC Macro

Taken with Pentax KM and Fujifilm 400 ISO Color Film. Click the pics for bigger size.

Writing this has gotten me excited now for Club crackers and cheese! Oh, and CCNA3…

I finally broke down and bought this program!

After playing with it for a while it has become imperative that I get it. It just processes my files in a way that SPP2.3 and Adobe Lightroom don’t. Gives my pictures a bit more character in a color way. Just processes them nicer without the headache of an annoying color wheel or overloading my computer. Anyway, here is the picture that made me do it…

First in SPP2.3 (I actually processed this as close to the Raw Developer as I could)

Raw Developer 1.7.2

[NOTE: Ok so I don't know why (I do kinda) the colors for the RD are so unsaturated but on my comp she is so full of color I'll work on it]

Carl Rytterfalk, a professional digital photographer and whose site I frequent, has put up a guide on his website on how to shoot pictures in a night club. This is a pretty good guide even if you are doing low light photography.

It lets you use a flash and brighten up a seen without getting that over bright in-your-face highlights a lot of flash pictures have.

Plus, if I can take photos like this,

at 1/8 shutter speed then I have to try this out.

Find out more at this link
http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/01/02/learn-flash-photography-club/
and even more at the DPReview Sigma Forums site
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1027&thread=26265198