Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Fort Worth Zoo + Photoshop


Miniature lioness?


Toy mandrill baboon??

Nope, these are all real using a fake tilt-shift effect on photoshop I found out how to do on youtube.  It's just a little lens blur effect.  Anyway, these pics were taken at the Fort Worth Zoo about a month ago using my old trusty D70s.  The FW Zoo by the way is awesome.  I would say quality-wise, it's better than the San Diego wild animal park.  I know, that's a pretty bold statement but it's a very well funded and maintained zoo.  My favorite part is this aviary full of parakeets - you go in there and buy a stick with some seeds attached.  The birds just flock to you and start eating the seeds standing on the stick.  Just really awesome.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

I Switched to Canon!



Behold! I've ditched the D3 for the Canon 5d Mark II. 21 Megapixels and HD video goodness.

Just kidding! This is AC's new baby sitting in my Optima hard case and Nikon gear. No, I'm keeping my D3 for it's sheer awesomeness. He brought this over when I was in SoCal so I got a chance to play with it. My first impression is that it is incredible. The picture quality is crisp and the amount of details surpasses my D3. He got a nice vertical grip with it, along with the 16-35mm L lens and the 85 1.8 (he went shopping!).  

Anyway, I haven't bought any gear yet but I did finally clean my D3 sensor and got rid of a speck of dust that was bugging me.  I'm still in the lookout for a nice small camera.  In the meantime, taking pictures with my ooold Canon Sd500 with a broken screen is a bummer.  I don't know how I can drop thousands of dollars in professional gear but am too cheap to get a cheapy point and shoot.  

Also, there is this awesome kids choir called PS22.  Check them out! 
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Holy Crap! An Update!



A little blue tone for ya








*blows dust off the blog* Hi again to the one or two people who check this photo blog. Here are a couple of pictures of Anisa's brother Nason and his lady friend Emmy. This was during their annual craw-fest.  My lappy was out for service (again) so I didn't have access to photoshop.  I got a new HP netbook but that thing doesn't have the horsepower to do any photo editing.  So now I'm back.  I'll post some family pictures in a few days when I get a chance to shop em.  

Update:  The last picture is new :)