Late Night Tales – Los Angeles

I’ve ignored this blog of mine for a couple months now. Maybe I’ve been a little busy to share, and truth be told, I do this more as a time capsule for myself than anything else. I do have a few photo’s to share…

Friday night was intended for the family to make a short trip down south to San Diego for Cara’s graduation party but we were unable to acquire babysitting, so Cara, I’m sorry, but we had every intention of going.

We had babysitting for Friday night only and we drove into Los Angeles to hang out with Ryan and Gina.
We ate dinner in downtown (Blue Cheese Fries = crazy delicious) and ended up at Akbar in Silverlake where the drink situation is wack. Bring cash.
We ended up being in the car quite a bit due to traffic suckin. So I basically took a picture at every stop light, and the results were pretty lackluster, here’s the best.

Even did a tiny timelapse, and I mean tiny.

Flickr!!

Filed under: Nikon D80, Photography , 50mm 1.8, apartment, downtown, handheld, Los Angeles, Night, Nikon D80

Pictures of Piglets

These pigs were born on 2/18/09

Filed under: Nikon D80, Photography , animals, baby, farm, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photography, piglets

Photo’s of Valentines Day Party

Amber and I have some friends named Gail and Guy, and they threw a Valentines/Birthday party on the 14th.

Below are the best pictures. My goal was not to fire the flash.

Filed under: Nikon D80, Orange County, Photography , Flickr, Link, nikon 50mm 1.8, Nikon D80, party, valentines day

Bike Ride To 7-11 Photo’s

I rode my bike to 7-11 to get a Slurpee with Crysta. I actually towed her via jump rope and we both talked about how immature it must look for a 33 year old man towing a 24 year old lady on roller blades to 7-11 to get slurpees. But then we said who gives a shit, because if more people rode bikes to 7-11 for Vanilla Coke Slurpees, then everybody wouldn’t be so fuckin miserable.

Another thing. I absolutely love the neighborhood I live in.

Filed under: Nikon D80, Orange County, Photography , 7-11, bike ride, nikon 50mm 1.8, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photos, slurpee

Fun with the 50mm

I could of sworn that I just heard the word “bitch” on Sesame Street. I could be wrong.

Look at these pictures from my Nikon 50mm 1.8 and laugh at the idea that Sesame Street is teaching America’s youth pimp talk.

Doggy in hand

This is a water faucet in my backyard I've never used.

I Sesame Street was teaching America’s youth pimp talk, I can’t think of a better place to learn it from.

Flickr is still KING!!

Filed under: California, Nikon D80, Photography , 1.8, bokeh, Flickr, Fun, household items, Kids, lens blur, nikon 50mm, Photo, Photography

The lighting at Ikea makes good photo’s

My family is a bunch of hot sluts for IKEA. Their hot dogs, Smaland and of course their .99 Frozen Yogurts.

The IKEA warehouse also has good lighting for pictures.

There’s a term I hate that photographers use, and that’s the term Bokeh. I prefer the term “Lens Blur”, because I don’t feel like such a pretentious goofus when I use it.

Filed under: California, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photography , 50mm 1.8, bokeh, Ikea, lens blur, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photo, Photography, Picture

Shooting Perfect Strangers

There is this blog I read everyday called greyscalegorilla, and a month or so ago he posted about taking pictures of perfect strangers, so I decided to try. This is my first attempt.

It’s really bad, but I will keep trying.

If you haven’t been to the Greyscale Sight, I would definitely peep it, the author kind of yell’s at you to do your best and to get creative from time to time. Sometimes you don’t want to hear it, but sometimes it’s what you need to hear. Also, tips on design and photography. Look I’m not on this dude’s jock or anything, although this post seems like it, just if you’re into creativity, just look it up and get inspired by a white dude from Chicago.

Another thing, I should just break down and buy a really good point and shoot so I’ll always have one in my pocket. The D80 is too bulky to take everywhere.

Filed under: California, Los Angeles, Nikon D80, Photography, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized , Adobe Lightroom, greyscale gorilla, Los Angeles, Nikon D80, Photos, stranger, Update

Play-doh Timelapse

This kind of came from an idea of putting together a bunch of short timelapses into one. Play-doh is one and I have other ideas that would be too short to put together as a stand alone timelapse.

Shortcuts, if you will.

more about "untitled",

Enjoy

Filed under: Nikon D80, Photography, Time Lapse , D80, Flickr, Fun, Internet, Nikon, Nikon D80, Pclix, Photography, Photos, Play-doh, Time Lapse

More CSS Shizzz

I’m still working through my CSS book and I’m using a Bart Simpson bookmark so I don’t lose my place. I’m working on backgrounds now, and this is where photoshop skills come in handy. I have none. To be quite honest there isn’t much help as far as books go in the aspect of photoshop for web design, since everyone, myself included, has gone DSLR on the entire world, 99% of all books are Digital Photo related. Very few help with web design…bastards!!

Anyway..on to backgrounds:

Defining Background-Origin.

The starting point for the calculation of the background-position property of an element is determined by background-origin property:

border

padding

content

Applying the border value, the calculations for the background images position will start from the edge of the border of the element.

Actually, I don’t have example to show you, so just know that as of today only Mozilla, Safari and Konqueror support background-origin.

Next up on the agenda is navigation. Lots of markup here.

Here are 2 quick examples of CSS designed web pages that I just think are the shit man. The shit!
CSS – PunkAss
CSS – Hedges

Also, I’ve been playing around in photoshop and Color Efex Pro and they have this filter that simulates film grain and it’s a lot of fun. Here is an example via Google Picasa 3 uploads due to me being a poor bastard who hasn’t updated his pro account with Flickr yet.

From CEP

This is me riding home from the swap meet.

Filed under: Books, Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photography, Web Design , Adobe, Books, CSS, D80, Javascript, Nikon, Photoshop, Web 2.0, Web Design

Photo’s from the day

I meet my wife for lunch at Ikea today, partly for lunch, partly to pick up a toy tea set for my daughter’s friend Nina. It’s been raining like non-stop here in socal for like 3 days, and for Pittsburgh that’s nothing, but for California that seemed like the end of days. So we have this mountain in Orange County called Saddleback Mountain and everyone has been freaking out over the amount of snow on it. What’s ironic is that it actually gets snow like once a year, sometimes for a week, sometimes for a few hours, depending on the amount of sun it gets the following week. So I took my camera to get a few pics.

Clouds Galore.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow I’ll have better luck.

We had fun with Tegan at Ikea. Sofie played in smaland while we shopped.
Here are the pictures:

Clouds over Ikea.

Tegan and Amber.

Tegan and Amber with sunlight peeking over Amber’s shoulder.

Amber & Tegan walking through the warehouse.

Tegan taking a sip.

All of my photos are hosted by Flickr , which is probably my favorite site in all of the world. Flickr is magically babelicious. I’ve had a pro account for the past 2 years and have well over a 1000 photo’s on it. I did however let my pro account recently expire, and asked my wife to renew it for me for Christmas. Easy Christmas gift.

Alright next post will be sIFR related.

TV On The Radio has been the music in my ears all day. The first and third album.

Staring at the sun indeed……

Filed under: California, Lomo, Los Angeles, Music, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photography , Adobe, Costa Mesa, Ikea, Landscape, Lightroom 2.0, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photos, Santa Ana, TV on the Radio