El Dave Photography

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Things have been hectic and I've fallen a bit behind!
I know, I know, excuses.

I will make up for it with next week's update.

Promise.

Be good,
-Dave

Thinking up a storm, when it storms it's going to rain

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Yesterday, I wanted to take a little walk through the neighborhood and see how things looked now that it's Spring. Grabbing up my camera gear, I brought along my XTi, the Starflex, and Reflector. I made my way down to the park, hoping to get some interesting TTV shots, when I passed by a little stream. I thought to myself, Isn't it amazing that a week ago, all of that was covered in snow? Reflector looked at the shallow water. "Hold on, I've got a great idea. Check this out." Reflector waded out into the stream. "Maybe you shouldn't go in there. I don't think you're water resistant", I said.

"Man, I am water proof."

Click.



Be good,
-Dave

They think they are smart
Don't doubt what they say

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Brawn: Do you have any better ideas, or is your intelligence as fleeting as your courage?
Perceptor: As a matter of fact, I do: get inside Megatron and disconnect the heart of Cybertron.
Brawn: Are you defective? How're we gonna do that?
Perceptor: Simple: we use my trans-mat reduction beam to shrink down to microscopic size. Then, we crawl into Megatron and rip the blasted heart out!
Optimus Prime: What do you think of his intelligence now, Brawn?

Perceptor is a Transformers Autobot, recently re-issued and released by Hasbro, exclusively for Toys R Us.

As I've said before, I grew up mainly watching Robotech, but a few select Transformers found their way into my little hands. Perceptor was one of them and is the primary reason why I'm fascinated by microscopes to this day.

I "<3" him.

Be good,
-Dave

The walls are closing in again, oh well
I seen some thing I thought I never saw

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Starscream: "Don't push me, Megatron, my desire for power is as great as yours!"
Megatron: "Power flows to the one who knows how. Desire alone is not enough."

I've been playing a lot with light lately. I'm the first to say that I'm no expert; in fact it takes me forever to get the settings right on my camera. My memory stick is FULL of under- or overexposed images with a small percentage actually turning out the way I want.

One of the first lessons I was taught was to never shoot into the sun/light source, and for a long time I followed that rule religiously. Even going so far as repeating it to myself when I'm taking pictures. Now that I've begun breaking this rule, I'm realizing just how limited I was. With this, I stood the figures in the light, pointed the lens directly at the sun outside the window and snapped the shot.

Amazing what you can learn from the little things.

Starscream and Megatron are Revoltechs, produced by Kaiyodo.

Be good,
-Dave

I been programed as I said before
Technology

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