At sunday we went to lake Berryessa and Sacramento. Berryessa is an artifical lake on the route 128 on the way to Nappa and its a really need drive, but not mucht to see.

Sacramento on the other hand is a normal big ugly city with one or two nice locations. We found one...

pics of sac are here. 

something about my style of pictures

so the most people are asking them self now, why are all these pictures in this special style, called septia. Maybe I like this style and it gives them an interessting touch. For example which picture is nicer?



the black white modus is just way to cold and is better for portraits anyways. The sepia is kinda warm and looks interessting and the original, is just boring and didn't say anything. except for look its foggy out here and I'm a tree.

but sometimes if you want to show someting with nice colors at a sunny day, for example macro shots from plants, you won't choose sepia.



in this example its obious, the natural flower is the nicest one. And black&sepia are just looking wrong. Another really good example are clouds.

so cunclusion, for landscapes sepia can look nice and should be used very carfully with everything else?

What are you doing on a nice rainy saturday? After a short stop in Walnut Creek I drove to San Francisco to pick 2 of my friends up and made with them a tour throw San Francisco. The traffic was like ever well organized, means the half city was shutdown and the other half was pissed and vrowed because of this. A while later and 68 pictures, my cam tol me, no more memory, please insert another card, wtf. I need a bigger SD Card 512MB are to small and to get all 45 minutes the laptop and transfer the data, it sucks. So I made some calculations, a fast SD Card with 512 MB cost 80$, with 1GB cost 130$, 2GB cost 250$ and a palm lifedrive which can hold 4 GB (and is an organizer) cost 400$. So the question is what should I get, a portable storage solution, which can hold 400 picures, or some more
SD cards which can only hold pictures? The problem is just that I'm broke, don't want to spend anymore money and affraid about the lifedrive, because it has so bad reviews.... And don't really need a palm, its just nicer to carry arround instead of a laptop and is the same price like 2 sd cards. We shoot close to 3 GB pictures this weekend.

anyway, after we left San Francisco, we went to Vacaville (middle of nowhere) because stepan and katja have to go shopping... a while later, actually a long time later we finally got to davis (next to the middle of nowhere), made dinner and afterwards we went to the graduate for country night...

...it was interressting.

other pictures from SF you can find under: here

It was thursday night a 3 am in the morning and I just got of work. So I decided to make a small test of the camera in the dark. To see how it performs with long time exposures. 5 Minutes later a police officer stopped next to me and asked me what I'm doing. Taking photograph? I thought this was obvious, because my tripod is not really small and has a cam on top of it. So I said yes I making pictures, no I'm not stalking my neighbours, yes I will be quit and so one. By the way the pictures are shot in front of my house.

today I got my zoom lens for my camera and it is very nice to have a range from 70 mm - 300 mm. I know that you cant expect wonders from a cheap 200$ lens, but the couple of test pictures i took are ok so far. The really nice thing is that on my D50 the lens is similar to a 105 - 450 mm objectiv. So you get a really long range.

The main problem right now is just it don't fit into my camera bag attached to the cam, so I have to get a camera bag too. I'm thinking about something like this or this.

I recieved my new Nikon D50 couple of days ago and the first thing I tried out was to see how fast it is. I was pretty impressed. It is not the D70s I originally wanted, because the D70s is slightly faster and provides a preview for the field of depth, but I don't pay 300$ more just for this features and the slightly better handling. So i think I will spend this money on a better lens.

by the way, sorry kitty for chasing you arround the block, I will do it again.