So I decided to take my Canon Sx230 out for some low light testing with the annual fireworks display at the ferry building in San Francisco. Looking forward for the start of the new year here I figured it would be a good way to test my new camera and hang out with some of my friends. Now I knew the ferry building's fireworks were an annual thing, but I didn't realized how many people it pulled. It was like my first massive with out decent music and ravers. Over all it was a huge mess though, like any large public event. The camera performed wonderfully in the low light circumstances considering it is just a point and shoot model. I try not to use the preset modes since I had manual but with the smaller body and having things like white balance and iso hidden from me in the menus I often forget about what iso and what white balance my camera settings are on. Often since I shoot indoors I will have it on tungsten and then when I go outside I won't notice the blue hue until later because of my slight color blindness.
Anyway this last year or so is the first year anniversary of my blog. I have been recording things I have been taking photos of for almost a year ( January 13th will be a full year). For the people who have actually read all of my stream of thought nonsense and look forward for my nonsensical ramblings about photography give yourself a pat on the back because I really have no idea what else I will put on this beyond cataloging my own growth. Which I think was the main idea anyway. I think 55 blog posts though out of the year was a pretty good indicator of what I was doing with everything. Forcing myself to sit down and thinking about what I have done has helped me as a photographer and to help keep me grounded. I know what I must accomplish and if I say something I better damn well do it!
For other blog news, yes, I know, I haven't done the infrared tutorial and I haven't done any of the other photoshop tutorials I stated I would do. I have been working on a cool higher contrast black and white tutorial beyond the infrared, the issue is I can't figure out how to transcribe it on my blog with out sounding like a pretentious ass or mimicking someone else's tutorial style. So the two tutorials might take a while to get on but yes, I am working on them. Also there is a high chance that the next blog post will be about the toy camera function on the sx230 because I like toy cameras. I might do some comparisons to some of my older holga scans, but I am not sure how it will all work out yet. I would keep my eyes peeled, if I were you. There will be some great updates this year.
So Mahkayla and I headed off to The Brainwash this Friday night to watch some of the best local San Francisco comics out there. As much fun as I had this was my first time actually going to see live comedy and it was a blast. Of course there were some comics I wasn't too fond of because I either didn't share a similar experience with, or I never done drugs so when a whole act about drugs and drug experiences I don't find to be as funny but the event as a whole was very entertaining. I hope I can go every Thursday to the open mic nights and enjoy the area more as a whole.
I did shoot these images on the sx230, I was in the back of the club so the 14x optical zoom is one of my favorite features on this pocket sized powerhouse.
