Attempt at starting a photography blawg.

As those of you taking the time to look at this will probably know, I am an aspiring photographer. I have much to learn and am still trying to figure out the best way to broadcast my work and connect with more people, get more feedback. I decided that a blog where I could showcase my work would be best  I am still working with a crappy computer, but I will be getting a new one soon, and decided I would like to start this blog sooner vs. later. My goal is to try to upload to it at least once a week with at least 5 new photos that I am proud of. Every day I am going to try to spend sometime working on my skills. Whether it is reading a book about photography, looking at other people's work, or taking pictures. This may be difficult to accomplish for I am going to be extremely busy, but I hopeful that I will make it work.

I do have a deviant art account, which I have been uploading to for some time, 

and I recently made a portfolio on Carbon made. 

I've yet to figure out what will be the best medium for me, but I plan to keep trying them out until I do. 

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About my cameras.

I have a Fujifilm Finepix S1000 that I have been using for the past 4 months or so,

and a Sony Alpha 100, that I was unable to access for the past few years.

My Fujifilm did me well, but has been glitching out a lot. I've been very frustrated at how long it takes me to take a photo with it.

I retrieved my Sony yesterday, and have been trying to refamiliarize myself with the camera, reading onine manuals and taking lots of pictures of my room and other random things. It appears that my mother lost my other lense, as well as my lens caps. I am pissed.

Anyways. I'm rusty with this thing, and it's going to take some time to get used to it again.

Here are the pictures from my first 24 hours with my old camera.

Random shot to see what colours/sharpness is like immediately after retrieving it. It looked very sharp at first.. till I looked at it full size..

My ghetto ass computer, googlin', betchez.

After messing around with my camera for a little bit on my own, Stephanie, Sean and Chris came over. They became subjects to my frustrated attempt to relearn my camera. However, I was comforted by the fact that you can tell quite clearly when someone else was trying to take pictures because it's impossible differentiate anything in the pictures. They are not blog worthy, they will be on facebook though.

Sean Davis

Chris was shenanigating

They look quite at home, don't they..

Steph is silly and I love her for it. I always get fun photos when she's around!

Hanging out with Steph and the boys was great last night. We made some epicly delicious cookies and ate them all quite promptly.

Today after work I wanted to do som practice, and work with focusing. The manual focus wheel on this camera is awfully inconveniently placed..

I thought about going to the fish tanks, but I've done that before. Turned out some gorgeous photos, but I wanted to try something new. I figured puppies and kittens were a good subject. The glass proved to be a bit of a hindrance.. I will try to learn more about overcoming this. My lense proved to be rather inconvenient with this as well, as it was hard to get it to focus in such a close up setting.

These bulldogs were absolutely gorgeous! And sleepy.

The pretty pup in front had such sad eyes. I kept missing her sad looks though. The brindled one just slept except for a few minutes when I took this photo.

This kitten spent most of the time I was trying to take pictures facing the other way. I got her attention my moving my hands in front of the glass. 

This is the chandelier at the top of the escalator to Europa Boulevard. I'm not sure which I like better. This one..

Or this one. I think I like the first one better. Opinions, anyone?

I was messing around with exposure and ISO. Didn't have too much luck, I turned out a bunch of photos that looked pretty much the same..
Anyways. I didn't have much  of a chance to learn how to use the camera when I got it, let alone after it being obsolete in a place I couldn't reach it for so long. I cant expect to be turning out gorgeous pictures right away.
Tomorrow I'm going to St. Albert to see Five Years Further play at the Taphouse. Colton has asked me to take photos, and I could potentially be taking promo type photos for the band in the future.
Tomorrow I will go and take photos of their performance, and get to know the rest of the band.
I'm quite looking forward to it, especially because I've yet to take my Sony out to a concert. How sad.
I guess there's a first for everything!

Oh. And for those of you that may be wondering
Portfolio;
www.spritephotography.carbonmade.com
Deviantart;
www.p-ixie.deviantart.com