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!

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.