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Can’t Stop Christmas.
Nov 17, 2008 Weekend Snapshots 1 Comment
My very late WS entry. Christmas is just around the corner. We already started decorating the house for the holidays.
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My Three Favorite Colors.
Nov 10, 2008 Fun Finds Leave a comment
Orange, purple and pink.
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*via http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/.
Weekend Snapshots.
Nov 5, 2008 Weekend Snapshots Leave a comment
I have been neglecting this blog for weeks now. Anyway, here’s my late entry for this week’s WS.
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Christmas Wishes.
Oct 25, 2008 Wishlist 1 Comment
A tag from Caryl.
The question:
What are your wishes for the coming Christmas?
A healthy and happy family has always been on top of my list. But if Santa feels generous, I would love to receive these.
1. A new lens for the camera. I am still not sure what lens to get as I am still getting myself familiar with the various lenses out there. For now, these are my picks.
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom
Review from digital-photography-school.com.
The beauty of this type of lens is that it gives you a fast lens, wide enough focal length to be useful in many everyday applications, yet the reach to really zoom in on your subject at the 200mm end of the spectrum. They are also useful for getting some nice blur in the background when shooting a subject - leaving them as the clear focal point.
Rating - 93%
Description - the biggest of the lenses in terms of size but lighter than the Canon this lens is given 10/10 marks in the areas of Features and Quality of Results.
It has Vibration Reduction built in which eliminates camera shake well. It produces sharp images at all aperture settings along the focal range and is quick and quiet.
The only real downsides of this lens according to the review was it’s cost, weight and size. Apart from that it’s written up as the ultimate 70-200mm lens.
Or this one.
Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens
Both are expensive, so if ever, we are considering another brand.
2. A new camera. I know this is a long shot, but I’ll post it anyway.
3. I don’t need this, but I like this one because it comes in orange and purple.
4. An oven.
5. Sewing machine.
Weekend Snapshots.
Oct 12, 2008 Weekend Snapshots 1 Comment
Fresh from his afternoon bath.
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Should I Try Lomo?
Sep 29, 2008 Lomography, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials 4 Comments
While I am still thinking if I should try lomography, I tried editing some photos to make them look like lomo photos.
Edited photo is on the left.
I followed these steps which I got from Photoshop Tutorials.
Creating the vignette:
1. Open a photo to edit.
2. Follow the steps below according to the version of Photoshop:
* Choose Filter> Distort> Lens Correction.
* Inside the Lens Correction filter, adjust the settings in the Vignette section to create the vignette. (Amount is -100, Midpoint is +75}
Adjusting the color:
1. Inside the Channels pallete (Window> Channels), select the red channel.
2. With the red channel selected, use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) and increase the contrast. The higher you set the contrast, the stronger the color effect will be. I found that increasing the contrast by 50 produced the most realistic results.
3. Now select the green channel and use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) to increase the contrast by the same amount you did in the previous step.
4. Select back the RGB channel (Ctrl+~) to view the final results.
These are created at http://www.dumpr.net/lomo.php.
Weekend Snapshots.
Sep 29, 2008 Weekend Snapshots 4 Comments
My DS and his new book. Saturday was spent at home and Sunday was family day. We went to a chapel in Tagaytay and had a late lunch at Paseo De Santa Rosa.
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