Well Ill be damned. Looks like I have fallen in love with photography.

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Omg been so long. But I am back and armed with D70 ;p. Quite a lot has happened but ill go over that another time. I bought the camera 2 days ago and just went out on my first shooting mission. Unfortunately because of the lens I bought (50mm 1.8d) and cause I am a noob, I couldnt really take shots of building or big things :(. Ill prolly get a new lens sometime this month that has zoom or something. This is a sequel to Around the hood which was inspired by Michael Flux.

Anyway just remember that I am a noob and dont know how to use this camera I also probably need to redesign this blog. Shrinking photos make me sad

But anyway, without further ado.

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Sup peoples. Had a pretty shitty week. But meh ill get into that some other time. This is a photo entry based on a concept created by Michael Flux called “Around the Neighborhood”.

The path directly outside of my house once you come out of the elevator area.

A little play ground on our estate for the kids to play in.

A warning about having cats and dogs.

10 seconds later she comes out of the elevator -_-

Can you guess which of the three building I live in?

Crossing of death. Becareful at night, retards never stop Also the 6s are pretty scary…

One of those grasslessless dirt parks that are everywhere…

A cute man hole

My Gym! zz need to go there in about 20mins

The main road.

A Japanese multi story cark park. Can you guess how the car on top got up there? lol

Another Japanese style carpark…

Entrance to Hikarigaoka park. Biggest park in Tokyo!

A look down the never ending park trail… (It really has no end :P)

Two birds..

The main road that the park is on.

zzz a politician. Think some elections are going on.

One of those cool wooden houses

Cake and ice cream shop. I might treat myself this weekend (drools)

A cigarette vending machine and payphone for those of you who have never been to Japan.

A ridiculously coloured building??

Oh well thats all this time round. Feel free to let me know what you liked and/or disliked and to praise or berate me!

Peace!

A trip to Mount Fuji with the boss of the company that I did my internship at. It is really cold at the base. You can actually drink the water that runs down from the mountain..

A dude in roppongi at 6am who had foam coming out of his mouth. Drunk or high of the hard shit?

Watch I bought from Yodobashi last year. You like?

Brazilian dancer at a joint called Tucanos in Shibuya. I know you like this one

My two babies Midnight (blue) and Greed (rainbow). RIP Greed…

Some good cake I ate at Harbs last Sunday. It is in Shinjuku. I recommend that you go NOW!!

A map to hell! Never leave home without one..

Can you guess what I bought?

Promtheus sick (Sub-zero mode)

A beautiful gift I recieved from a lady when I finshed my intern. The Japanese translates into something like this (slightly different) “Isn’t it amazing that in this large world, me and you met.” Pretty touching message. It makes me appreciate the good people that I have been lucky enough to meet in this cold world…

Ill leave this caption up to you…

I don’t know a thing about photography. But nevertheless it is a topic that I find very interesting. So, in order to try and develop some skills and learn how to use all of the settings on my camera I have set myself a little challenge. Once a month (or maybe fortnightly) I will grab my cam and go to a random place and take photos until I have at least 3 photos I am happy with. I will then post them and you guys can berate me and tell me how much I suck, and hopefully give me some pointers to help me suck a little bit less :p

Today’s location was Hikarigoka Park (biggest park in Tokyo?) which is a few minutes from my house. I was mainly snapping people who were doing some sort of sports activity.

So the first photo I tried to take was of a kid throwing a baseball against a wall. I wanted to try and get a photo with him on the far right side and the ball in flight on the far left side. I kind of succeeded with the positioning, but the photo itself is kinda meh..

I took it on sports mode to try and catch fast movement but couldn’t really get a sharp shot. Any tips on taking shots of moving people without getting blurs? Is there too much wasted space in the background?

Second photo was of some dudes playing basketball. I took quite a few shots but sadly this is the best I could get. I dunno, maybe if I got it a few split seconds faster while the ball was still in his hands it would have looked better? Or if I actually got the hoop in the photo as well?

Third photo was of some ladies doing tai-chi. Maybe I could have zoomed in more or got a better angle? Also what do you think of the colour? Too dull, too dark?

CONCLUSION:

So what I learnt today is that 3x zoom just does not cut it… I think I missed out on a few good shots because I had to be ridiculously close to get any sort of picture. Also my reflexes suck. I was always like a second too slow and kept missing the shot I wanted to get

I am using a 7.2 mega pixel Sony T30.

So, let the berating begin lol.