I love photography. For me, it’s like painting, but better. And more accurate. And unlike painting, I can actually participate. I am not a big success or great master by any means. But I enjoy taking pictures. I also enjoy looking at other people work and sometimes sharing it. When I do, this is the category that I use.
Somehow I managed to miss Canon digital photography forums until recently. It is a very active community dedicated to Canon digital photo technology. Just the EOS part of the forum shows currently more than 10,700 discussions. I bet you can get any question answered there.
I went out early in the morning trying to find some kind of parade, since today Cyprus celebrates its Independence Day. Military parades are usually organized in Nicosia on this day. In Limassol, it was supposed to be a traditional go-show by local schools and colleges. I went around the city for about an hour from approximately 8:30 until 9:30 and haven’t found anything. I passed by few schools and colleges and there were no preparations. So, I guess either they cancelled the whole thing, or I was terribly wrong with time.
Anyway, being out and having my camera with me, I decided to go for a short walk in Limassol downtown. Surprisingly, some shops were open (or openning), although it is a national holiday today. I took a few pictures here and there. After reviewing the results, I think that I need more practice. Not surprising.
The photographs are here.
Ok, today I actually went out of the house. But it was nothing special – Pizzeria Pepperoni. Unfortunately, it was too dark for the fast subjects that I was trying to capture. I used ISO 800 and built-in flash, but most of the pictures are still blurry. ISO 1600 is way too noisy. I guess I do need that proper flash unit after all.
Anyway, the subject is interesting, so I am doing almost no censoring. Enjoy the pictures.
Digital Journalist has an interesting article about Athens 2004 Olympics. The article is written from photojournalist’s point of view. It tells about all the problems journalists faced during the games, what was organized good, what could have been better, and things like that. This is a must read for anyone who is planning to cover major sporting events, such as next Olympics in China.
There is also a gallery of excellent images from the Athens Olympics. So far, this is the best I’ve seen covering that event.
Once again I am too lazy to get out house. Working with still life will be my excuse for today. Two resulting images of ice cubes are here.
This is the closest I could get to them with my 18-55mm lens. It seems that I really need a macro lens for a better and more detail picture of ice cubes. At first I though of using 75-300mm lens that I have, but it has 1.5m minimum focusing length, so it doesn’t work. 18-55mm needs just 30cm.