Covered the 2008 JMA / JEA Trade Expo
May 7, 2008 | Filed Under Events and Happenings, General, Jamaica | 2 Comments
I was at the 2008 JMA / JEA Trade Expo over the weekend taking pictures of all the booths and happenings for a website I am involved with called Jamaicapage.com. It was the first time I ever took so many pictures that my battery ran dry which reminds me that I need to grab a spare. I uploaded a of the shots to my flickr account and my favourite shot of the day is posted below.
Do you love me?…buy me this car!
April 29, 2008 | Filed Under Events and Happenings, General, Outdoor, motor vehicles | 6 Comments
I saw this sexy work of European engineering art at the Liguanea Fine Art and Photography Festival that I attended over the weekend.
It was a great festival and I strolled around looking at the various booths, snapping pictures and meeting and greeting accomplished and upcoming artists. I fell in love with the Audi TT Roadster on display at the show though. I want it!…but being able to have it will take lots of work so I now have one of these pictures as my desktop wallpaper for…inspiration.
Learning about birds through Photography
April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Fauna, General, Jamaica, Outdoor | 6 Comments
The latest thing photography has opened my eyes to is birds. There are all kinds of birds in Jamaica of all shapes and sizes but since taking up photography I have really learned to appreciate them and learn their proper names and characteristics. At first all I thought about them was that they would make interesting photographs but after many days of photographing pelicans and seagulls in the Kingston harbour and snapping shots of various birds in emancipation park I have come to appreciate them, especially after being attacked my a vicious Greater Antillean Grackle who didn’t want his photo taken and heard a Northern Mockingbird mimic the sounds of a car alarm.
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Grackle that attacked me
Looking forward to taking more photographs of birds in Jamaica. I will be planning a few trips as soon as the finances allow me to but right now birds ate one of my favourite things to take pictures of.
This shot of a Northern Hummingbird is one of my favourites
Bought a Book about Digital Photography
April 19, 2008 | Filed Under General, Photography Tips | Leave a Comment
My days of digital photography ignorance will soon be over. Already cleared one of the first hurdles in understanding photography properly! More info and a book review as soon as I finished reading it.
The Importance of Learning about Photography Properly
April 15, 2008 | Filed Under General, Personal | 3 Comments
I consider myself a photography enthusiast but my knowledge of photography itself is very limited. In the last few weeks I have taken it upon myself to learn more about this new activity I now call a hobby. I used an analogy while talking to a friend that I felt that a complete racing newbie who bought an entry level sports car and then felt like it was that easy to be among the big stars in racing. Substitute the racing referring for photography and the racecar for a camera and you now understand the way I have been feeling.
I barely know much about the advanced features of my semi-pro point and shoot camera, I still don’t fully understand the terms aperture, shutter speed and ISO among others and apart from a few buck-up shots here and there I have yet to take some very excellent photographs. This is all changing though and I have been taking steps to correct my ignorance.
Steps Include:
- buying myself a proper beginner digital photography book
- Browsing through Flickr and other online sites to pick up more photography ideas and develop my “photography eye”
- Reading through the manual for my Sony DSC-H9 “properly”
- Taking more trial and error shots to have a more hands on feeling and not just follow what I am told
- Be more confident about my photography ability
- Have a professional logo/watermark done for my blog
- Network with experienced, well respected local photographers
- Find out about, join or create and participate in a photography club
- Purchasing a second battery and memory card for my camera
- Go out to various places and TAKE MORE PICTURES!
A few of these steps have already been put in motion and my readers (if I have any besides a few friends) can expect me to post updates on my progress here on my photoblog. Thank you for reading.
Vertical Line across My Pictures - Sony DSC H9
April 2, 2008 | Filed Under Cameras and Equipment, General | 7 Comments
For the last few weeks I have had a problem with my camera, whats the problem you ask? - a nasty looking virtical line across pictures taken at night or with a dark background. I first noticed the problem in late February when I attended and snapped some shots at the 2008 Reggae film Festival and again the same night when there was a beautiful lunar eclipse.
see that ugly line to the lower right of the picture?
I am not to sure what caused or is causing the line but I hate it it! Daytime pictures or pictures with sufficient lighting aren’t affected by this feint (but ugly) line and I have learnt the hard way how fragile photography equipment can be. I am in two minds whether to send back the camera to Sony as it is still under warranty, I have printed up the necessary service documents through their website and all that is needed now is for me to send it off to them, but I am weighting the costs plus time without my camera plus what if the decide it’s not a manufacturers problem. All that has been on my mind lately so I just thought I blurt it out here. Whether I decide to send it or not I am bound to blog about it here.
The line is seen more clearly in this photo.
Princess Nelly is always a willing model
March 21, 2008 | Filed Under General, Jamaica, Personal, Schennelle | 1 Comment
I have a younger sister affectionately called Nelly. She is my little princess and always a willing model for me when i want to practise taking photos. School is out now for Easter break and she accompanied me to work a few days ago. I left work early to carry her to the park for a few hours and of course to take pictures.
I snapped quite a few and posted 4 of the better looking ones on flickr, of the four I posted the one below is my favourite.
Feel free to take pictures of Random Crap
March 10, 2008 | Filed Under General, Misc, Photography Tips | Leave a Comment
I am not joking when I say I am a newbie to photography. I have yet to swallow many of the technicalities of my latest hobby but I have no problem learning through trial and error. This trial and error process has already allowed me to learn how to take and sew together panoramic shots which resulted my my shots of Emancipation Park and Kingston Harbour.
I take random shots almost everyday and it’s my way of getting used to my camera while experimenting with different lighting conditions and camera settings. Check out some random shots below.
Emancipation Park Panoramic Picture
March 1, 2008 | Filed Under General, Jamaica, Outdoor, panoramic | 5 Comments
My first panoramic trial and error pictures were of Kingston harbour, decided to try another panoramic shot but this time of Emacipation Park which as I said in a previous posts is one of my favourite locations currently to get my newbie photography action on.
My friends think it’s dark but I like the lighting in the shot, the sky and the park lights which were just coming on in the evening.
Speaking of emancipation park I have been having almost daily photo sessions with birds at the park. I have watched them fight, bathe and hunt worms. It seems that spring is in the air and the birds are out in their numbers. I have already posted a few on my flickr page but expect an update here and a few of my better shots as soon as I find the time to sort through them all.
New Kingston Jamaica Skyline Photographs
February 26, 2008 | Filed Under General, Jamaica, Outdoor | Leave a Comment
I work on a tall(ish) building by Jamaica’s standards. While collecting my minimum wage monthly salary statement yesterday in the accounts department of the government ministry I noticed the great view from the 11th floor of the building of the skyline of New Kingston. Snapped a few shots, the better looking of which are posted below.
