Playing tourist

Worked right up till midnight again...sometimes this is rough. I'm tiiiiiiiiiired. "Don't complain Raph... "

Today I managed a little fun though... went out to practice photography with an old coworker from a few years back named Andy. He's apparently been taking photography as a serious hobby now for like 3 or 4 years. In the case of photography, I learned not only is it HOW you use it, it really DOES matter how big it is too. Bigger camera lenses as big as my forearm are pretty kickass when you're wanting to catch a photo of someone scratching their ass halfway across town!

Anyway, I managed a few good shots today I'm pretty proud of. We walked around a few places around downtown. It was good...I got a few tips from Andy. My main problem right now as an amatuer is learning how to compose a shot. There's an art to making a photo look good so that it's compelling for someone to look at. There has to be a focus too.

I like the first building shot. That was taking from the top of Aloha Tower. It's a great vantage point but what sucks about it is that it's not open early enough to get the sunrise, nor open late enough for the sunset. Both magic hours for good photography. Anyway, that building is where my law firm client is at. I think that will work well on a design I'm working on for them. It's a bit under-exposed but my camera brakets different exposures for me and this one I like because it brings out the window reflection better and I can see the details of the clouds.

Later I went down to the bottom of Aloha Tower itself and took one. This one turned out pretty nice. Pretty decent angle. I think the only thing preventing it from being a perfect shot is that I should have stood just a little bit to the right to capture those trees on the right side as well. Otherwise, I love the blueness of the sky.

The last one was a pretty boring shot in terms of any object to look at. I should have picked something to focus on. But I love the colors that I got this late afternoon. Very serene!!! Aaaaaaah.

Not bad for a newbie photographer eh? Hot diggity!!! .................. where did that come from?