Wow what a weekend! I've had a blast shooting with my new camera Lola! The first day I bought her I didn't really do much. Did a couple of test shots around my apt building and at a friend's house and did some testing of the camera's hd video recording capability which performed fabulously. Did most of my shooting Saturday and just came back from a lovely time spent at Descano Gardens. I'm totally worn out and tired. I went in there with a memory card that's capable of storing 280+ raw images and filled up the memory card and I didn't even get to shoot the whole garden area.
Anyway, on Saturday afternoon, I had planned on using Lola in a serious manner. I had my sister with me and we were going to meet up with her boyfriend at The Stand for one of my photo ideas and it was pretty much going to be a diner setting and I had passed by the place once and for that brief moment, it looked like the place was what I was looking for but upon getting there first with my sister and entering the establishment, the place ended up not being what I wanted. I needed a full on diner, with diner booths and all those bells and whistles that come within a diner type establishment. This place? Not so much. One corner booth and plenty of tables and chairs. So we ended up just talking and having lunch. Talked to my sister's bf much about photography since he's going to school for it at Brooks.
I left early a bit disappointed and I wanted to make the best of the day so I started to drive out to a local park area to check out the Japanese Gardens. When I got there, I find the place to be closed and that bummed me out. I wanted to properly break the camera in you know? I left the Japanese Gardens defeated and proceeded to go home and while I was on my way home, I passed by a park and the first thing I see is a cherry blossom tree! Bam! Went to that park and spent the rest of my afternoon there just shooting the lovely trees. I some how managed to salvage a day and got some pretty amazing shots. Its a good thing I took the route I did to go home or else I wouldn't have seen those trees. When I got home I loaded up the photos into my computer and proceeded to work on them and I really didn't have to do much to them but me being me, I had to turn these great shots into beautiful ones. And this image is one of my favorites from that series...
I'm working on call this weekend and normally I don't like working on the weekends but considering how much shooting I did this weekend, and as tired as I am from it, I'm looking forward to taking a break and just relaxing this coming weekend. However I might end up going back to Descano Gardens next Sunday. Just because I feel like there's so much more there that I wasn't able to see!
Anyway, on Saturday afternoon, I had planned on using Lola in a serious manner. I had my sister with me and we were going to meet up with her boyfriend at The Stand for one of my photo ideas and it was pretty much going to be a diner setting and I had passed by the place once and for that brief moment, it looked like the place was what I was looking for but upon getting there first with my sister and entering the establishment, the place ended up not being what I wanted. I needed a full on diner, with diner booths and all those bells and whistles that come within a diner type establishment. This place? Not so much. One corner booth and plenty of tables and chairs. So we ended up just talking and having lunch. Talked to my sister's bf much about photography since he's going to school for it at Brooks.
I left early a bit disappointed and I wanted to make the best of the day so I started to drive out to a local park area to check out the Japanese Gardens. When I got there, I find the place to be closed and that bummed me out. I wanted to properly break the camera in you know? I left the Japanese Gardens defeated and proceeded to go home and while I was on my way home, I passed by a park and the first thing I see is a cherry blossom tree! Bam! Went to that park and spent the rest of my afternoon there just shooting the lovely trees. I some how managed to salvage a day and got some pretty amazing shots. Its a good thing I took the route I did to go home or else I wouldn't have seen those trees. When I got home I loaded up the photos into my computer and proceeded to work on them and I really didn't have to do much to them but me being me, I had to turn these great shots into beautiful ones. And this image is one of my favorites from that series...
I'm working on call this weekend and normally I don't like working on the weekends but considering how much shooting I did this weekend, and as tired as I am from it, I'm looking forward to taking a break and just relaxing this coming weekend. However I might end up going back to Descano Gardens next Sunday. Just because I feel like there's so much more there that I wasn't able to see!