Sunday, September 18
My New Hobby
Last year, around this time, I got me my first digital camera, a compact Sony cyber-shot 5M pixels, and with it my photography whim started, it was not until about six months back that I started fooling around with its different programs, in a trial and error method to capture the right view. Mind you, I hate reading manuals.One thing frustrated me though, is that I could not actually capture what I had in mind, the view I see with naked eye is different from that on the camera especially when I’m shooting at night.
So I decided may be my newly acquired talent (e7em) is outgrowing its breeches, may be a new, more professional camera is due.
So I got me this Sony, cyber-shot, DSC-V3, 4X zoom with a facility for night shots, it’s a kind of in-between compact and professional camera, and for the first time in my life I’m reading the instruction manual and shooting everything I get my hands on, just like a little kid who’s happy with his long awaited toy.
These pictures shown are taken with my old camera, some of them I had to enhance with photo shop; thanks to sweet Purgy who had started me on gear :)
Take a look and tell me what do you think?
Serenity
The pallet
The warning
The Wroth
Protection
I have uploaded a lot more on flicker, so if you are up to it, then give it a shot
The revised photos
The Mercy
Fantasy
The Pallet 
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LOL, tariq; I’m very naive when it comes to photography, no composition I guess, since I don’t know what that term means LOL, no, I just shoot using different programs of the camera, that’s all.
And by the way; which ones that are not so good, it is really important for me to know so that I can learn to enhance my photography.
Thank you very much Tariq, those tips were really invaluable, but there are few things that I did not get, like digital trees, did you mean added trees, if so then, no I did not add them, they were the ones closer to the camera. In fact I did not add anything to any picture, I just played a bit with colors and lights using photo shop. Another thing is cropping, which I did not get, I tried to Google it and still did not get it, so shall I expect lesson 102 soon? ;)
oh am mentioned, nice, I have no idea what the post is about, but I do not care, am mentioned :)
Way to go... nice pictures :)
Dear AyyA,
I have posted a couple of photoshop tricks on my blog... you may find useful. They are under the techie category. I know this sounds like a shameless ad for my blog... but I am sure you'll find them useful..
Here are a couple:
Show of the devil in you
Applying the Lamo effect
I hope you find these and others useful.
I sound like a spammer now.. with links to my blog and all
Truly,
Misguided
Tariq
Applying composition and cropping (now that I know what these words mean LOL), I tried to enhance the first photo (let’s call it Eve), fantasy and the wroth, and you are right, they do look much better now.
Oh and how did I read that digital? I must be in need for a new pair of reading eye glasses LOL.
Purgy
Off course I’ll mention you, how many Purgies do I have :)
Elegance
Thanks babe for your constant encouragement, and btw folks, Elegance was behind my first entry into this field and she is the only model in my photos (don’t worry, I won’t show your face babe).
Thanks to you sweetie for your patience with me nagging every time I get frustrated with my camera :)
Misguided
I’m glad you’re doing the ad to your post, it is valuable and the intention is what counts, I guess I have homework to apply the technique you described on your blog, sounds very interesting. I will show the results when I’m done, thanks again sweetie.
Jimmy and the Advocate Devil
The two knights behind the scenes, I have to thank you officially for your prompt response and your great help, I had to mention your names here so that when I become famous one day, I’ll go back to see who took my hand to make the initial steps in the world of photography (just kidding), no really, I need to have you mentioned here since blogs are permanent (or at least I’m hoping that they are) while e-mail could easily get lost.
Now how about that? :)
Enjoyed the pictures and learned alot from the comments too :)
Thanks sweetie, that was indeed very educational wasn’t it
I do that too!! I took a picture of this .. or I'll probably just post them whenever its time, but dude the last pic is amazing!!! where did you shoot that at! =P
Tariq
Now that I see it clearly; there is a spot on the right bottom side of the sun in The Mercy, I took that photo in the car, it must be some dirt on the window, now is there I way I can get rid of that without loosing too much of my picture?
Spont
If you mean the last picture of the original post “Protection”, then this was taken in Thailand. But if you mean the revised ones “The Mercy” then this picture was taken in Spain.
Thanks sweetie, I hope you learned from the tips given by the commentators., yaaay, I’m so exited.
Thanks Tariq, you’ve been a great help, I’m playing around with photo shop, still don’t know if it has bandage tool, but I’ll check it out, and soon when I start using my new camera, I’ll be needing more of your help ;)
I meant fantasy, very beautiful =~}
Oh, that picture, if you go back to my old posts in Spain during July and Aug. I think I mentioned how I used to fool others by making Elegance pose for me( poor thing she had taken a lot of my S%^t LOL), then I pretend that I’m shooting her while in reality I’m shooting something else, well, this is one of those pictures, and believe it or not; this is not Ibiza, this is the small, peaceful and cozy village of Moncofa.
"I mentioned how I used to fool others by making Elegance pose for me ... then I pretend that I’m shooting her while in reality I’m shooting something else"
Hahaha. You should be talking to my friend Antares ("Anti-Reason"), he just *loves* to shove his camera in the faces of total strangers :-))
As for the bandage tool, I think it was included first with Photoshop 6, while the current one is CS2. Which version of PS do you use?
I use PS Pro 7.02
I was wrong. Actually the Bandage feature was bundled into Photoshop starting with version 7 (the current Photoshop CS2 is equivalent to version 9), so you do have it!
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