Amateur Hour

Around the Neighborhood

2008-10-13T11:38:00.002-05:00

In an attempt to ward off unemployment-induced boredom, I went around my neighborhood and took photos. Here are the results:

A friend and I also went yesterday to Harriet Island to walk around and kill some time. I brought my camera along so here are the photos from that:

There are more and I'll post those later. It takes awhile to get them uploaded on here and frankly, I'm tired of doing it right now! So, I'll post the rest of the Harriet Island ones later.

Wedding Pictures and Chicago Pictures

2008-08-15T15:17:00.002-05:00

I was in a friend's wedding this past weekend in Chicago and I got the chance to take some really cool photos of the wedding studd (rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, getting ready, wedding itself, etc.) as well as a chance to take some cool shots of Chicago. Here are some of them--more to come.

Flowers fresh after it rained

2008-07-11T10:06:00.004-05:00

I know, I know, more flowers. But, it had just rained and so I thought it would be neat to see what the flowers looked like all covered in droplets. Plus, my landlord had just weeded and tidied up the garden in our backyard, so there were a lot of gorgeous flowers to look at that weren't really visible before. They are really easy to take pictures of because they are right in my backyard, so when I want to just take a couple to try something out, they are perfect. So, bear with me for a few more flower shots.

The next two you really have to click on them and open them up to be larger to see how neat they came out. The small pictures just don't do them justice.

More Flowers

2008-07-07T13:22:00.003-05:00

I only had time to take a couple today because it was going to start to rain. That was disappointing because I was hoping to be able to try out the filters/white balance stuff for a little bit. I only got to take about 4 pictures and then had to head back inside. In these the white balance is set to "cloudy" and I tried both a yellow filter and an orange filter. I can't say that I really notice a difference, other than they look a little softer. Not sure if I was doing it right or not, but I also didn't have time to figure it out either. Oh well.

The very first pictures I ever shot with my camera

2008-07-07T08:16:00.005-05:00

I took all these photos on April 23, 2008 (my birthday!) and I was mainly using the P setting. I also used the close-up setting and the black and white setting w/ a blue filter. I was just trying to see what I could do with the camera, since I'd never even touched a camera that was this advanced, let alone used one. So I just went out around town and took some photos to see what I could do. I actually think I did fairly well for my first time ever.

Photos for Our Wedding

2008-07-06T00:27:00.006-05:00

We are planning on using titled pictures instead of numbers as our table designations at our wedding next May. So tonight, we set out to get some photos of places that are special to us in our relationship. Here are the results:

These last two aren't actually going to be included in our wedding stuff, but I managed to take them while we were shooting wedding photos and they turned our pretty well.

Edited photos

2008-07-05T17:34:00.002-05:00

Fireworks

2008-07-05T16:53:00.008-05:00

My mom's tiger lilies

2008-07-05T16:41:00.007-05:00

Here are some shots of the tiger lily flowers that my mom has in the front of her house, as well as her cool birdfeeder.