banannie http://banannie.com/blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:36:53 +0000 en hourly 1 bananniehttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes http://twitter.com/home is not available http://banannie.com/blog/2010/02/07/httptwitter-comhome-is-not-available/ http://banannie.com/blog/2010/02/07/httptwitter-comhome-is-not-available/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:36:53 +0000 Annie http://banannie.com/blog/2010/02/07/httptwitter-comhome-is-not-available/
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Live radar- at the time of posting the storm is just approaching Philly & South Jersey

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I’ll probably get sick of this but it sounds pretty cool :) .

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]]> http://banannie.com/blog/2010/01/30/my-nest-and-my-view-for-the-evening/feed/ 0 Tracking 2010: The photography thing http://banannie.com/blog/2010/01/26/tracking-2010-the-photography-thing/ http://banannie.com/blog/2010/01/26/tracking-2010-the-photography-thing/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:28:33 +0000 Annie http://banannie.com/blog/?p=2194 So I’ve mentioned that I plan to buy myself a DSLR camera by year’s end. Of course, now that I’ve made that decision I’m anxious to get one and start taking pictures, but fiscal reality dictates that I wait. I have a perfectly good (better than good, pretty sweet in fact) point and shoot camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC FX-35. Even when some of the photos it takes seem a little more washed out than I’d like, a quick run through Photoshop or Lightroom 2 fixes that. The camera fits in the front pocket of my jeans, has a nice big LCD, and even takes HD video.

I’ve posted a few images I’ve taken with it, most recently some shots from the snow storm we had last month. Just like back in the day when I was learning video production, and editing and post were my favorite parts, playing with images in Photoshop and Lightroom is more fun than actually taking the photos for me. But since I want to work on my own images, not someone else’s, I need to learn to take better pictures. That’s what I’m doing now, learning about photography. The first hurdle I need to overcome isn’t technical, it’s getting past my shyness. I’m so hesitant to ask people to pose that I end up with a lot of blurry, dark, unusable candid shots.

I send a lot of photos from my iPhone to this blog, but I’m probably going to cut back on that (they’ll still be posted to my Posterous site, and linked to Twitter and Facebook, because it’s fun to share them.) Instead I’ll try to reserve my better iPhone shots for the blog (many using some of the great photo iPhone apps I have) and the occasional processed image from the Lumix. I have one I was working on last night that needs a little more tweaking, but I’ll probably post it later today.

Any photography advice out there? How do you approach people (especially strangers) and ask them to pose for you? And hey, how are you doing on your own goals?

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