http://www.eyeshrine.com Photo Blog of a newbie photographer having fun with Photography Wed, 07 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/covered-jma-jea-expo-2008/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/buy-me-audi-tt-roadster/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/learning-about-birds-through-photography/ 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.   http://www.eyeshrine.com/bought-a-book-about-digital-photography/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/the-importance-of-learning-about-photography-properly/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/vertical-line-across-pictures/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/princess-nelly-is-always-a-willing-model/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/feel-free-to-take-pictures-of-random-crap/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/emancipation-park-panoramic-picture/ 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 ... http://www.eyeshrine.com/new-kingston-jamaica-skyline-photographs/