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THE DP1 IS REALLY, FINALLY, OFFICIAL!!!

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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

Wow blogging has lots of late nights.

We went everywhere today! Up and down to the Capitol Building to the Smithsonian to the White House. Lots and lots of walking.

Anyway, what you really want to see are the photos (right?).

Can you see the guys trying to break in?


My favorite Smithsonian building
and the inside of it…
if you can read this image then I’m so so so sorry…

was waiting for this guy to move…
if only it wasn’t behind glassgreat movie, great plane

and finally…

and now it is time for bed…next stop BROOKLYN!!

Oooh look I’m actually blogging…

Anyway, I’m on vacation on a trip with family going to Washington DC then to New York, so I’m going to attempt to blog my trip with photos. I’m new to this internet stuff so bare with me. Anyway is a slideshow (because there are so many pictures…) to showcase the fun we be having…

Hopefully, tomorrow I can get even better ones. It is tough carrying around a camera around your neck… Come on Sigma let me try out a DP1 already…

Anyway, follow the link to the slideshow.

http://www.pandaism.com/WinterTrip2007/12-19-2007.mov

Is a panda…

This is how much fun we have at work. Some guy brought in this WWF replica belt to get some stickers added on it to make it say something else. So for about 10 minutes after taking the order we were joking around in the mall with the belt and taking pictures.

This is from an Olympus FE190/X750 Olympus compact that was at one of the booths…

*sigh* wish I had my SD14 or the new DP1 from Sigma…

Come on Guys hurry up!! Or you can just send me a final production one to work out all of the bugs…

Doing some studying for my final part of the hands-on skills based part of my CCNA2 exam. Really quite scared to be honest. It may be just a test but this test can determine if I pass or fail this class this 8-weeks. If I do fail then I’ll have to wait another year if I want to take the class again.

Until exams are over I’m not going to take pictures regularly or update this blog much. It is only until the end of the week though so…

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