Last Film Pictures for a Long time

I got the NIkon D40! It was... awesome having that box in my hands walking out of the store... but It's going to be worth it. I've got a 2GB memory card, a UV Filter, and an extra battery to go with it! So I won't be having to pay to develop a roll of film for a long time! Besides, I can't really afford the film or developing it right now anyway. So, without further ado, here are the highlights of the last pictures I'm going to take on film for a really, really long time:

Trail Into the Distance...

Overhanging Tree

Dead Tree in a Clearing

Digital SLR Camera

Well, I'm going to be getting a new SLR camera for my photography class next year. It's going to be a digital one, given that film is nice, but developing it and buying film all the time is a pain, and on top of the already unreasonable gas prices, it eats away at my budget. So, after looking around at digital cameras, and checking out the list of cameras that my photography teacher recommends, I liked the Canon Rebel XTi, but honestly the Nikon D40 is a lot better priced, and even the editors on this website called digitalcamera-hq.com calls the Nikon D40 the "Best Affordable SLR". Honestly, that's just awesome. I only have about $300 right now that I've saved for a while, and I wanted to use that for other stuff, but now I see a very practical use for that money! Honestly, I'm going to Alaska in a couple weeks, and I don't want to have to buy 50 rolls of film and then have to pay to get them all developed! I want to take a bunch of pictures, and I think that having a digital camera will help out with that. Plus, uploading pictures will be far more easier! The library where I scan in my pictures blocks deviantART on their computers, so I have to e-mail the pictures home to upload them, but e-mailing pictures decreases the quality, so the quality will be a lot better!

Well, gotta run.

Peace out!

P.S the Renaissance Faire was closed when I went to it a week ago, since it was only when we saw it was closed that we figured out that it was only open on weekends. Oh well, no pictures coming out of there...

New Pictures

Sorry I haven't been posting recently, backed up with stuff, you know? Summer job and all that... here are a few pictures that I want to highlight out of all the ones I uploaded, and you can check out the rest at my deviantART gallery.

Here they are, in no particular order:

Oak Knoll Overlook

Sidewalks

Sunglasses study

Wildflower Garden House

Field Landscape

A likely location for more pictures

Well, according to my local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Renaissance Faire (the "e" at the end of "Faire" was intentional, since it's a medieval thing, and old English doesn't spell things the exact same way as modern English) started today and will continue to June. It's basically a place where there's this Medieval village set up and there are a bunch of people as characters such as the King and Queen of England, the Queen of France (and their guards, of course! Those are who I remembered from last year...) and others. There will also be some other stuff such as jousting tournaments, complete with crowd chants, cheering and booing, and even swordfighting! (however, they don't let you take swords into the place unless you tie it to the sheath so it prevents you from unsheathing it...) so there will be all that, and other entertainment stuff such as... I don't know, musical stuff, like drinking songs, small musical theatre stuff, and the like. I could go on and on about this, but I'd probably bore you all. I think it would be better if I told more about it when I actually got pictures back from that.

PhotoShop Effects

Well, I've been doing some effects with PhotoShop in Photography class today, and I gotta say the effects on this particular picture was wicked awesome!

It was done using a few variations of the Find Edges filter and layer masking, and I really like how this came out!

Link

I may start to do some more of these in my free time (If I get any, that is...)

Toy Figure Pictures

Here are three of those pictures from the photography class project involving those plastic army men I mentioned earlier:

Window Sniper
A perfect place for that guy, isn't it?

Around the Corner
Nerves tense as two soldiers creep around the structure...

Hold the Line
Six soldiers prepare for an attack.

Got Pictures!

Ok, so I finally scanned in the ones from Shaw Nature Reserve! Well, I put them on my deviantART gallery, so I'll just link to those pictures. Anyway, so here are some of the best ones I scanned in:


I can do anything...
Probably my most favorite picture that I took there! Yeah, the smudges on the library scanner ruined it... but I still like the composition. That is me in the picture, BTW.

Two Trees
Yeah, it can be difficult to find trees just standing by themselves... this is the closest I could get.

Dried up Creek
You would think that a creek with water would make a better subject, but not all the time...

Wolf Run Trail
I really like this picture for some reason... not sure why, but maybe it has something to do with the arrangement of the trees in relation to the trail.

If you want to see all the pictures I posted on deviantART today, then my page there is linked to on my profile as my homepage.