Gone till Next Week

I'm getting better at this updating thing. Well i'm about to embark on a roadtrip with no laptop cause moms has it in seattle right now. sooooo i'm leave you with some shallow DOF goodness before i leave so you have something to droll over till i get back.

( f/1.8 @ 1/50 ISO800 Manual Focus)





















































(i'll post something in colour when i get back promise)

Bokeh

Bellagio Garden-1, originally uploaded by 'Sa Jamil Hogan.

Bokeh (derived from Japanese, a noun boke 暈け, meaning "blur" or "haze") is a photographic term referring to the æsthetic quality of point-of-light sources in an out-of-focus area of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field

A few days ago i went to the Bellagio Garden in Las Vegas for some photographic therapy. Each time I go i try to give the photos a different feel. This day i wanted to shoot everything in f/1.4 giving me a nice shallow depth of field.

Shooting this shallow is a nice way to isolate objects in the photo due to the immense blur of the background. I noticed while i was there that several other people where trying to get a similar effect. While it is possible with a good selection on lenses its easier to achieve this effect with Prime, Macro, and Telephoto lenses. and the reason being

Prime Lenses: They have no zoom and only change range of focus and many come with extreme low apertures (f/1.2 f/1.4/ f/1.8 etc)

Macro Lenses: these lenses are many to focus on a very small range even at apertures as high as f11

Telephoto Lenses: With range like 70-300 anything not in the direct range of focus with be blurred similar to how the eye works.

While you can do this on a lens with a smaller soon range such as 12-24 or 17-55 it is possible if you have a lower aperture or you're at full zoom and about 2-8 inches from the object.

Formula Drift Round 4

So this weekend was Formula Drift Round 4: Las Vegas. It was quite the weekend. From Vaughn Gittin Jr smashing into a wall and coming back to place in the Top 32. And Turek getting his car AIRBORNE it was quite the weekend. Only downside to the weekend was my 70-300 dieing. But I did get some killer photos regardless and I learned the importantace of auto-focus when it comes to subjects moving at 80mph. I used my none-AF 50mm for a few photos and the ones in foucs can out very nicely. I'm really looking forward to that D300s now. But at the end of the night Tanner Foust and his NASCAR V8 powered Scion tC won. Congrats to Foust and the Rockstar Team. See you guys in Washington

You can see more of the photos on my flickr acount.

Twitter

Twitter isn't the newest social site. in reality its been around since 2006. but in the last 6 months it has exploded to the top of the social networking sites. The site allows its users to post a 140 character message for the world to see. They define it as "Microblogging." I see it a massive SMS/MMS system.

The basic concept of twitter is you join and start posting and soon people will follow you because they like what you have to say, they know you, or you have something in common. You'll also do the same giving you a list of Followers(people who follow you and see your updates) and Friends(the people you follow and see the updates for.) I have to say its a brilliant system. I myself am a member and I will admit my A.D.H.D has me addicted. At current I have:
71 friends- the people I follow
321 Follows- the people who follow me
3924 updates- the number of times I've posted

I love the way twitter allows me to network with people I would otherwise never be able to contact. I am able to ask photographers in China, Canada, England, and all over the world for advice and different tips. The use of twitter has also shown me how small my local social circle is also.

VD012

So i'm getting back into this blog and this is the first post of doing so.
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Vegas Drift Tonight hosted their 12th event and the first one to be done at night.

IT WAS A HIT!.

IT was hosted out at the Bullring part of The Las Vegas Motor Speedway but this event had more to it. This event added a car gallery, live music, and a roach coach!!! its not a West coast event without a Roach Coach.

Here's a sample photo of events from the Evening




































That all you get for the time being, but as soon as I finish editing the photos I'll post a link off to the gallery so you'll be able to see the rest of them