More mountains

I really enjoyed taking these pictures.  I shot the second picture from a moving car.  Fortunately, there was enough light to shoot with a low ISO and fast shutter.  The sharpness of the 18-55mm kit lens leaves a lot to be desired. 

Peripheral vision

The 50mm f/1.8 lens from canon is pretty amazing, considering its extremely low price.  Its wide aperture makes for good depth of field shots, and allows me to shoot at a lower ISO in poor light.

This the view in the periphery of my left eye.  It is my work area for one of my other hobbies, Gundam model kits.  One of the reasons I bought a DSLR was to take good pictures of my finished kits to share online.

Also, with this post I am now caught up after not posting during the road trip.

Trial of tilt-shift

Waiting around in the airport for my flight home, I killed time digging through the menus of my camera, trying to familiarize myself with my new hardware.  I only took a few pictures, as to not look too suspicious.  I wasn't planning anything malicious, I just didn't want to look suspicious.

The tilt-shift effect in this photo was done with the built in photo filters of the canon t3i/600D, and ISO noise was reduced in post, along with a little color correction.

Street photography in Hollywood

While I was in LA, my friend was nice enough to give me a tour of Hollywood. There were definitely some interesting characters, and I would have like to stay a little longer, but I'm still glad I got the photos I did.

Bokeh test

 

 I used a 55mm f/5.6 lens to take the picture. The aperture wasn't ideal for getting good bokeh effect but it still worked.  After a lot of shooting on that day, I realized I was quite fond of the 50mm focal length, so I went out and bought the 50mm f/1.8 canon prime lens.

Pictures of people taking pictures.

After this post, I'll only be 3 posts behind, so I should be caught up by January 16th. For this entry, I made a collage of people taking pictures.  It's all there, phones, compacts, DLSR, and even an iPad.

After picking up photography as a hobby, I've started notice people with camera more often. It used to be something I took for granted. I guess this is what people feel like who are really into cars. I used to only see people driving expensive cars, or shit cars. But now, when I seed a 5DIII or a some L glass driving down the road, I stop to appreciate it.

Road trip part 4

I'm still catching up from the missed days.  In LA I picked up a new 50mm f/1.8 lens. I bought the lens for its big aperture.  I had a chance to test it out later that night, and I'm really happy with it's low light performance and the bokeh it produced.