Make A Wish

My picture for the day. July 14th. Time is flying.

July 12.

While I was in Pasadena(if you see my previous post), I saw a lovely brick building that I made my sisters stand in front of for a while so I could take their pictures.

I really like this picture here just because while it's a very straight-forward portrait shot, what makes the picture interesting is the composition and color of the brick. I did saturate the picture a bit to give the brick and the color of my sister's shirt more definition but if you ever want a cool place to take pictures, brick buildings are most always a good place.

This picture here I edited to be black and white, but the next picture down you will notice is the color version of the same picture. I did this to show what a different look you can get with black and white, or color. Because of the brick building, I think that the color version of the photograph may be better because it shows the interesting color range of the brick but the black and white adds a dramatic effect to the picture which I really like.

A Day in Pasadena

The other day, my sisters (Dana and Addy) and I went down to Pasadena for the afternoon

to have some lunch and hang out around the city. I took some pictures as we walked around the city with our stomachs full and our souls happy. Here they are:

Such a cute pizza place. So picturesque!

My sister Dana is quite the coffee lover so we went to a coffee shop called Intellgentsia. This particular coffee shop has a couple stores around California and is quite well known among the city people. I would say it's just a fad....but they make a mean latte.

I was running away

Both of these pictures are straight out of the camera-in other words, I didn't mess with them at all.They're of a certain cockatiel named Mango.

Oh yeah, and I took them manually.ISO 200/F7.1.

Fireworks.

Happy Fourth of July..only a couple of days late.

I wish the picture was bigger..maybe it's just my inability to understand computers...

but you can always click on the picture to see it larger.

I'm glad I was able to capture the people watching the fireworks in this picture as well as the fireworks, because I think it gives it more....pizzaz.Anyways, I didn't mess too much this picture, I only lightened up the shadows so the people are more pronounced.

A day in July.

I recently got a new camera, a Sony Alpha 390.I had done no research on it at all and that is crazy for me because I'm a big researcher on big buys and I guess that's good but, anyways. It was a great deal so I bought it to try it out and I am greatly enjoying it. It's a D-Slr, and my first camera with interchangeable lenses. I'm learning every day how to use it better...and for the price that I got it(with two lenses)..i'm feeling happy.

This is my favorite of the pictures. The only thing I messed with in this picture was the colors.I saturated it a little and voila!I'm gonna tell you something..you notice that the focus is on the earring and her hair instead of her face?Well, I didn't even mean for it to be that way. I had intended to have her face be the focus, but forgot to set the "focus" to the right (where her face was). Sometimes mistakes end up as good pictures.