Hey guys!
Sorry for the hiatus on updating. As far as news goes, my second camera died... so now I have NO cameras I've been working on getting my pictures organized and have about 20 or so that should be posted pretty soon. Right now I'm experimenting with giving my pictures a professional-ish looking border and a signature. If I get everything looking the way I want it and get done with studying for my finals on time, I should have them up by the end of this week or the next.
Till then, Tootles!

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My poor D40 is out on repair. I hope it gets well soon and comes back out. I'll be missing it sorely.

So no real big picture taking until I get it back... I still have my Fuji though so I'll not be going on a complete hiatus.

At least this will give me some time to go through the 4+GB of pictures that I really haven't gone through yet. Need to sort through and find the good ones, organize them, and see which ones are good enough to be put up on DA. So hopefully if I find some time to reinstall photoshop (cause my comp died as well... >.< I'm WAY too rough with my machines) and if I find time amongst my school work, I'll be able to put more pictures up. YAY!! ^.^

WOOHOO!! 1,000 views! Thank you everybody that's been watching and who have visited my site!

Honestly, I haven't really been watching too closely. I just saw it today when I logged on and thought, "Woohoo!". DA has really kept me going on my art and I'm very thankful for that. It gave me a reason to go out and take pictures again and to show my art to the world. I'm trying to improve myself and learn (sometimes relearn) more about color photography. Thanks again to everyone and the DA community.

Speaking of my art, I just went on a few field trips to the Salton Sea, Orocopia mountains, Catalina Island, and a personal trip to the Birch Aquarium with . So, depending on how much time I can snag away from school, I'll have more art for you guys to look at again.

That's about it for right now... hope to post again soon!

Tootles!

Hey guys! Don't forget to calibrate your monitors! I saw this in 's journal and wanted to help spread the word.

I hope I did this right... if you want to see the original journal entry go here: [link]

CALIBRATING YOUR MONITIOR
The strip shows a range of greys from pure black to pure white. You should be able to see a clear difference between each shade of grey, ranging from pure black (left) and pure white (right).

... THAT is the question... and that question has been plaguing my mind for that past few days. Some pictures I take I'm happy with as they are... and others... well... they leave more to be desired. I kind of don't want to crop my pictures and edit them too much. I'll do edit a little bit every now and then just to get the light or color right... but when it comes to cropping, I'm not as forgiving. On the one hand, it'll be a better picture and I'll be happier with it. Also, I'll be creating a piece of art same as if I don't crop it. But at the same time that allows me to be lax when I'm actually taking my pictures.

Lemme know what you guys think.