Wednesday, January 20, 2010

More Zoo stuff but mostly Monkeys

I still have a few pictures from the zoo to look at, but most of them are penguins and I have done quite abit with those before. So this may be the last batch from that trip. Quite a few of these are taken behind fences and it messes with the picture. Even if I focus on the subject behind it the fence still gets in the shot. I have edited them out to the best of my abilities but it still makes for some fuzzy shots. Enjoy them

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There is actually a baby on the stomach of this one. It was the closest they ever got to me and the only real shot I got of the baby.

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No fence on this one, just a bad shot lol. I still liked him though

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Another baby, its the thing wrapped around the neck of the one on the left. It seemed every other setup had a baby in it. They were all over the place

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Another shot with abit more of the baby, they never turned around to where I could see its face.

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This one had a baby doll, its kind of the same idea......thats a nasty looking doll.

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Another Baby monkey.....This one was actually pretty neat. There were 2 of them I think.

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I love this guy, makes me wish I had my new camera then. Or even if I just understood the manual settings better.

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Dark Colored animals don't really lend themselfs well to my style of editing....

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These guys were neat. The monkey just kept messing with the turtle, I have a few other shots of them just hanging out but these are the only 2 I have on me right now.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A quick warning and then some stuff

So you know how you put your camera card into your computer to do some quick editing right? Well when your done what do you normally do, and I really want you to think about this. Generally speaking, you just pop it out and go on your merry way I bet, this however is not smart. I did this with my card with my honey moon pictures on it and it became damaged, I lost everything on there and it would not be read by any camera or computer. Thankfully there are options when in this situation. Card recovery software or www.cardrecovery.com thats the one I used. Yeah its 40 bucks but it repared and restored over 1000 pictures that would have been lost if not for that.

Now how does one properly and safely eject a card so this doesn't happen to them? Well its rather simple. On the start bar near the clock you will see a icon with a silver box and a green arrow on top of it. Click on that and it will show you the drive with your card in it. Click on that and tell it to eject. Wait a second or 2 and a message will pop up telling you its safe to remove it. Thats it, just do that and you shold be fine. And if something does happen don't reformat the card thinking there is nothing you can do about it. It can be fixed and data can be saved, it is rare that anything is actually lost in situations like this.

Now to pictures, from downtown disney, from my honey moon. Bobbie I know your reading this as your half of my 2 readers, and I love you.

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Its worth noting that my wife took most of these pictures. Its nice that she is somewhat interested in this aswell. This picture took her afew tries as she wanted one of him actually spitting. This is above one of the entrances to there main store down there and is where a few of the other pictures will be houses at.

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Over by the scrapbook store and art gallery I always have to vist was this neat little statue. It has 3 of the brooms from sorcerer mickey in fantasia. Fantasia is a horrible little boring movie im sure you had to watch when you were little and didn't enjoy. However it had a few good parts and this was one of the 2 of them.

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They have these 9" blank mickey statues all around the park. You buy them then paint them to create your own mickey doll. I wanted one so bad till I saw the price tag, 40 dollars.....I get that thats disney priceing but this is just a rip off of mighty muggs and there 9" model is only 10 dollars. So im paying 30 dollars more for the ears? I'll just sculpt my own thankyou. Disney, if your going to steal a good idea, atleast price it at a reasonable mark up. End rant

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Next stop is the Christmas store, I always go there to look at there nightmare merchandise. They have probally the largest selection outside of the magic kingdom. Bobbie really likes pretty sparkly things so she took these of the snowflakes as well as the fairy shots below.

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Fairy lore had pretty much 2 trends, pretty little cute fairies that fly around helping animals and using magic for good or otherwise useful purposes such as disneys tinkerbell.

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And the more darker and much more common thoughts of them as not evil but mostly mischevious little fairies. They play tricks and use there magic to amuse themselfs usually at a humans expense. Bobbie likes pretty things and I like dark things, so I have 2 versions of this picture. One for her and one for me.

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Show like CSI have taught us that dead men tale tales indeed. And usually not good ones. These next few pirate shots are all in a toystore in the huge disney store with stitch on it you saw above.

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Ah the dreaded halo effect...seriously who puts lights like that by pirates? They should be well lit from lighting that doesn't mess with my pictures.

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I overheard a worker telling a little kid this is where they put you if your mommy and daddy don't buy you enough toys in the store before handing him a fairly expensive looking box.

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That last part was a lie, but if I owned this store it would be part of the training video for new hires. How could that not work?

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Oh and this is my cat half squat, I just tossed him in there.

More stuff from Tampa

So I was looking at my old pictures again and I found some more I didn't really do much or anything with. These first 2 are from Bush Gardens and the rest are from the zoo.

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Actually these little guys may be from there aswell. Im not sure which place they were from.

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If anybody has any tips on getting rid of glares put them in the comments. And yeah I know the angles and all that, im talking more edit related stuff. Sometimes you just get stuck with glare, my normal method of toning down didn;t really do much here. I could however change it to different colors instead of blue....thats something

Now the Zoo stuff

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Sorry for the darkness, its a normal theme of mine but in these shots It looks abit overdone. The tigers were behind some seriously dirty glass and it was about the only way I could get it to look like they were actually infront of me and not behind a wall of smudges. I really like these shots though, before I had no idea how to do anything with them.

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I had forgoten there were 2 of them when I was looking in my camera folder. This one kind of suprised me. He just apeared out of nowhere.

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Sneak attack!

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A few of our Ferrets like to do this, they jump on the others then scruff there neck so they can't move....

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I wouldn't mind going back now and seeing if there still there. This was a good year and a half ago so im sure there full grown now.

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Its a leopard, I was taking picture of the signs so I could remember what animals were what. I stoped though for some reason and ended up only getting pictures of the signs for animals that were pretty easy to figure out. Kind of pointless in the end

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Monday, January 4, 2010

A few more from Disney

Got a new computer and have been working on it for awhile not. Getting things organized and reloading all my programs onto it. Here are a few more from the Disney trip the wife and I took.

My camera was almost dead and I forgot my charger so my mom leant me hers after the wedding. I had issues figuring out how to work it, and in the end I couldn't really get it to do what I wanted. But it was nice to be able to take pictures regardless. These are all from that camaera. Except for the last one, which is totally random and non related.

These are from the Lobby of the animal kingdom lodge

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Actually I may have taken this one with my D90. I can't remember, but I don't think I did much if anything with the cannon of the savana.

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This I think was from the polonisian hotel. I know I misspelled that, but I don't want to google right now. This was in there lobby, they had a huge display set up right in the middle of it all. Very cool building, we went there for breakfast.

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Thats what this was from, its me and Bobbie hanging out with Stitch. They send them around to visit you while you eat

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