Stacks and towers of checks so high...

This was the first shot I took tonight. I haven't played any poker in a while, but I always have a stack of them on my desk. It's a way to keep my hands occupied while I'm busy doing nothing. Basically it's a decoration that can make a lot of noise. The lighting is awful, and maybe someday I'll work on that.

I tried shooting from a bunch of different angles. I still can't get the super-macro mode or whatever it is to come in focus all of the time, and I'm working on how steady my hand is when I take shots in low light. I am also using the timer more so that the camera doesn't move when I press the shutter trigger. I like the way the tool looks in the background, and I actually turned the light on for this. I like the way the texture around the edge of the top chip looks under the light, but you can't really make it out at the posted size. You can also see what a high roller I am at the casino; you see correctly, that is a $2.50 chip.

In fact, I liked it so much I moved it and used it again here. This is further away from the light source, so everything is muted. No vibrant colors but thanks to the shadows you can make out the depression pattern on the chip well. The ripped envelope on the desk that just happened to be there makes a nice middleground in this one.

One more from today

I was looking through the shots and I really liked how this one came out as well.

Pictures with bad lighting

Around the house there was a bottle of vodka sitting around taking up space, so I thought it might be cool to try taking some pictures through it. This is a shot of a champagne glass, and I think it came out alright. The light source was just a window and it's far from a bright day outside. I think if I had made more of an effort to have better lighting it may have been more interesting of a shot.





This is just a cool plant that we have in the house, very green with all this purple fuzz on it, giving it the look and feel of velvet. It's very 70's Elvis. I tried taking a bunch of different pictures but the light from the window gave it a very washed out look. This one I liked. The cat ended up walking around checking out what I was doing, and ended up blocking some of the light from the window right as I snapped the picture, which really accented the purple glow of the plant.

A reasonable attempt at some photography

I decided I would play around with my camera some last night, just trying a couple different things. I came up with the shot on the left, but I haven't decided if I really like it or not yet.

I am only using a little point and shoot, and I figure I should see if I take anything that I really like before I go out and buy anything even remotely professional. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to mix up two things I enjoy, the camera and the saxophone.

The shot on above I thought had some interesting lines. To be honest, I just kind of like the lighting that is in the area around the piano and I've always liked the way my sax looks when it's all shiny. I think that it makes an interesting desktop background.

I couldn't get the layout of this entry quite right though...

Killington pics

I posted up some pictures from the Killington trip last weekend. It was a great trip overall, and the weather held out long enough for me to finally get some time in on the snow. It was so much better than I thought it would be, and Friday was gorgeous.

Killington gallery!

Late to the game

So I'm finally (for about the third time) jumping on the blogging bandwagon. The whole thing doesn't make much sense to me really, but here I am to give it a go anyway.