Grand babies and Photography Painting without Photoshop

Playing with the grand babies - photographed by Joy with her new NEX-5

 De-focusing while taking the picture

 White balance at the warmer side

 Full moon at midnight

Painting an outline on the flower pedals

 A little bit of macro

 My outline taken early in the morning

Red and Black

the Dark side

My painting styles - changing the brake pads

My dad always told us to put the tire under the car just in case the jack collapse

Photography Relaxes Me

Chris and I started taking pictures again during our lunch break, just to relax and practice what we learned in our photography classes. More pictures of the grand kids at Sea World with grandma Susan a week ago and baby sitting last Saturday.

I normally check my foreground and background before I select my subjects - painting with just the camera.

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Playing with Joy's new camera at Sea World

I was actually thinking of my parents when I bought Joy a Sony NEX-5 camera kit, I wish I'd taken movies of our parents and kids. The NEX-5 is like my canon dslr but much smaller with a big image sensor, very light, compact and she can put it in her purse. It takes great pictures and the big plus HD movies - I set it to P-mode so I can change the contrast, saturation, etc... Here are some samples - Joy says "Her new camera?"

A short video clip - the resolution is not that great on the blog due to high compression.

I love eBay - Parts for my dead lens

You can almost find anything on eBay.  My Canon 17-85mm lens had stopped working when I changed the aperture setting, the camera displays an error 99.  I found an iris assembly for less $25 with shipping, works great now.  The Canon repair shop wanted over $400 to fix.  The easy part of repairing the lens was taking it apart, if you take a lot of pictures is easier to put it back together - but I forgot to do it.
I remember when I was young, my dad had a clock from Japan and it stopped working.  I open it up and the parts started flying out, it had a lot of missing parts.
I found a mustang gas tank for our RV generator that I converted from propane to gas. Parts for my jet ski, quads, etc...  I normally buy from eBay seller that has more than 95% positive feedback.

The flex circuit broke due to bad design it has a small tight turning radius for zooming.

Wild Zoo with the Grand Kids

For three weeks now we have been visiting the San Diego Wild Animal Park and here's some photos.  Don't forget to watch the short video it's pretty funny.  ENJOY!

The little guy has two teeth already, just turned 5 months old 

Electrified

 Shot this guerrilla thru a bush for isolation.

 Reflection

Used a polarizer for a deep blue sky.

Joy and I photograph some animals also here a couple years ago,  click here for the link