"My new lens"

I bought a camera lens for my birthday last week. (Yes, I bought something for myself on my birthday don’t sympathies me!!!! haha)

Anyway, it is Cannon EF 100mm F2.8 L IS USM Macro lens. This lens is a hybrid lens that is designed to take two distinct of subject. So I don’t have to switch my lens whenever I take a really close up shot. So last weekend, I went to my friend’s house to test my new lens. Since he has a lot of pets in his house and office. (Seriously, a lot.) I had fun taking some action pictures and interesting stuff.

He has a big salt water aquarium tank in his office and they look gorgeous. With my new lens I could take a picture without changing my angles to avoid the reflection of the glass. This puffer fish looked at me and was not afraid of me at all. So I had a couple good shots of him. One of benefits of this lens is that it allows me to focus much closer and get a higher magnification ratio ( 1:1 ). This was especially beneficial when I was taking pictures of the

          Next in line were these, much smaller fish. Taking these two pictures were so easy but at the same time hard to focus on the subjects because they were afraid of me and swam away so quickly. Since, you are zoomed up close to the subject, it is hard to follow the subject when it is moving.

And the next pets that my friend showed me were reptiles.

This guy’s name is ‘fat tail’ as you can see he does have a fat tail. The macro lens makes your pictures perfectly clear and focused. You can even see his scales clearly!

Lastly, the waterdragon.

I thought this animal was facinating. Always wanted to have a reptile like this one but as soon as I saw his dinner, I wanted to consider it one more time.

This was a good looking water dragon

This is him during dinner time. Yes, he is eating a mouse. It was very curel but at the same time the picture turned out really nice. Poor little mouse.

After I saw this smile after his bloody meal at the end,

I renamed him “The joker”

“Why so serious?”

 

 

 

 

 

Well, that was my day with my new lens and I really like it. It is easy to carry around and because it is a hybrid lens, I can take regular pictures without any extra moves. A great birthday present for me.

"Death and life"

March 21/22, 2012

A day of gloom, full of work but nothing done,

a fight with mounting stress, all alone.

Looking over old pictures and having to write my blog,

I come across two that will fit my monologue.

A bird that used to fly freely,

and a rose that used to radiate bright red

but the thing is, sadly,

that they are all dead.

Those who lived, now gone without a sign,

will that happen to me, nothing left behind?

I wonder death, so vague and so huge,

but not afraid, just curious what might be there, waiting for both me and you.

but set that aside, for I am still young,

also my friends and family, and my forever one.

"Rule of Thirds"

Many pictures have their subject placed right in the middle. You should focus on the subject when you take photo but placing the subject smack in the middle can make the image boring and uninteresting. However, just changing the composition can make the pictures much better.

Perhaps the most common and popular principle in photography is the Rule Of Third. It is from artistic rules that imaginary lines are drawing dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically.

Like this the image is breaking down into 9 parts.

      When you take the pictures, you should imagine this grid and consider placing points of interest as you frame your image. You place the important element of your composition where these lines intersect.

It gives you four lines that useful to place the subject.

    By placing objects over these intersections, it balances the picture horizontally and vertically. Not only will this— enable a viewer to interact with it more naturally. Because according to online photography site, “Studies have shown that when viewing images that people’s eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most naturally rather than the center of the shot – using the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an image rather than working against it.”

     Rule of Thirds is a useful rule but it not a real rule at all. It is a guideline that helps you to take the advantage of better placement of elements in your photos.  Be creative! Try different angles/perspective and go out have fun take pictures :)

(House in the center)

(Different placement—more to the left)

(To the right)

This kind of simple change makes the picture different.

(Photos from google image)

"Photo Story"

Being Good Friends...

  

We may get too tired of each other.

Fight over the littlest things,

frustrated by the most trivial.

But we will shake hands once more

going back to our old, goofy ways.

relying on each other.

The long, distressing road ahead,

it will be nothing with your pair of trusting eyes and smile.

That is what you are, my friend.

(Photos: Yun Shik Park and self-timmer)