thanks to michele’s aunt who took out her old nikon gear for us, we’ve now got some new tools to play with! more on that later. here’s some vacation food pics…it was actually alot of fun learning manual focus on the spot, good thing the food models weren’t getting impatient =)
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…still working on getting our pics a little brighter, lighting is tough!
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so we’ve been busy the last couple weeks…decided to move into adulthood and made our first home purchase along with some other interesting things…thanks to everyone for the help getting it cleaned up and painted.
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as much as we loved the fuax curtain wallpaper trim, it just wasn’t working.



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yea, it’s that pink…even the ceiling.


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they updated the stove and fridge which was nice


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our bedroom was a light tan, almost grey…we changed it to ‘almond’ which goes with the shades already there. score!

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our bed for a few nights……i swear, her face always looks the same like it’s just rotated into position hahhahaha

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wan’s going to make us a mantle…i’m liking his ideas so far too.

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and the backyard…

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housewarming gift from kelvin, aka ass, aka bro-in-law…real funny

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first rice cooker i’ve ever had (another gift lol)

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i liked this pic…the chinese place near us never had a bean curd szechuan style request before so they hooked it up with a quart full of tofu!

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we found this in front of some guy’s house and grabbed it for free. more updates on it after the weekend…

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we got tons of stuff from my sis, michele’s fam, and friends…like this ikea coffee table, just a little wood glue and it’s g2g!
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that’s all for now! i wanted to post a pic-a-day to help with the camera experience, so this’ll be an introduction =)
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oh and one more thing =D
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now back to work since george is coming next!

the holidays gave us a lot of different challenges with getting shots in the right light, focus, composition, and just general picture taking. most of the pics we took ended up being very mundane and can easily be done with a point & shoot, but it was definitely a learning experience. i found myself hitting up digital-photography-school.com before each occasion to get last minute tips to make the best out of our time…i had to resize for the blog and wordpress blands out the pics so check out the flickr for original format and full-size. it would prob be better to let you click the pic for the full size. note to self!
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christmas eve in staten island was truly a night i will never forget. so much food, so much family, and so much fun.
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the new addition with mom…

with gramps

and with great gramps!

santa even stopped by!







christmas day we spent at my house, there was snow on the ground and i wanted to go out, but never had a chance…


for the first time in my life, i found myself not opening gifts christmas morning and taking pics of my parents opening. hahahaha…





my dad’s such an easy present…

time to start cooking!





and another new addition! this was one of my favorite pics…




sisters

all the kids got my grandma a necklace with each one of their birthstones…

christopher, always goin for the soda!


definitely can’t wait for a wide angle, which will be our second purchase after a flash.



cleanup time!

off to michele’s fam!


so much wasted space to the right



more good food


cupcakes from crumbs in nyc


i like this picture

we have to work on focusing on more than one subject. up the aperture or manual focus? hmmm….


most comfortable position. ever.

went to see the tree in nyc, this proved to be the greatest challenge and sadly turned out the worst pics of the holidays. after reading about using the tungsten setting, i saw how much it really brought out the lights, but with our stock flash and inexperience, we just couldn’t get faces to look natural. we ended up switching to auto so the pics are usable and some post-processing would help, but next year…we will be ready!



almost got it =(


we then went to my sis’ a couple days after christmas…finally get my gifts!




the king in his thrown…

yummy dessert time!







i setup the camera to take pics in one minute intervals, it worked out for some nice candid shots and definitely made gift opening less stressful letting me focus on family time…


we all got moms the beatles collection. very cool i must say…

some post-processing will really make these look much better…


white balance was off.

cheerio!

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new years pics coming up!!
saw some cool pics with extra slow shutter speeds using laser pointers and such…
all i could find right now was a maglight =)
it’s actually pitch black when taken

these were all taken with one shot (pulled from gizmodo):




sooooo michele and i decided this year to split a gift for christmas. it worked out nicely, even though my sis is yelling at us for opening it early. we (see: michele’s credit card) bought a nikon d5000 kit with the two stock nikkor lenses (18-55mm & 55-200mm). we know nothing about it but have ankur to guide us so hopefully we’ll enjoy our new purchase and maybe upgrade later. if you’ve ever seen airplane! then let me say that turning off the auto setting makes the plane completely go down. they may not be the ‘illest’, but whatcha gonna do? everyone’s a photographer, just like everyone’s a racer…







