At the zoo part VI

I'm growing increasingly tired of being unable to take photos as I want them and I don't want to wait any longer. So, I've decided to push a bit my budget and see if I can find a used DSLR and start actually learning, with something real. Hopefully, soon enough I will be able to post far better photos. For now, I present you a couple more photos from the zoo. Behold:

Here we have two hedgehogs sleeping after what seems to have been a nice vegetarian meal.

The colours needed some push up in order to get visible and more attractive. So, yes, editing worked like a wonderbra once again. But not like high heels. Those things are made by people who hate women.

This cute thing is called red panda. It doesn't look as lazy as a normal panda (with the climbing and stuff), but it sure is red.

Here the colours are much better. I will let the photo speak for itself. Go ahead, click on it. See it in all its glory.

At the zoo part V

I still have many photos from the zoo, but it's getting increasingly hard to single out some of them to put here. So, for today I have some lizards that got quite better after the editing, and some pigeons. Yeah, I went to the zoo and I took a picture of some pigeons.

In other news, while trying to be able to buy the 650D, I'm seriously thinking about buying a cheaper DSLR or a used one, so that I can take actual photos instead of using the Android phone. We'll see.

These nice lizards are small, comparing to the ones we already saw.

With some editing, they become brighter and a bit more colourful.

The pigeons are everywhere. And it's normal since they can eat food of great quality that is  destined for some exotic birds.

Here it became a bit darker, but we can see the details on the ground. Still, I think that it looks underexposed now.

At the zoo part IV - Serpents

Since there are still a few pictures from the zoo that I would like to share, I will keep posting them until I'm all out. Today's photos were a bit of a challenge to edit, since the indoors lighting was giving everything a shade of yellowish greenish and I really didn't want it on the final result. Did I succeed? Not really, but I tried and the next times will be better, probably.

Also, you will notice that the pictures are smaller. This is to make sure that the page will not be too heavy, because there have been reports (an personal observation, of course) that it loads slower than we can afford to wait in these fast days, when information has to be delivered here and now. We don't have dial-up any more, damn it! You can still click on them and view them on a slideshow in bigger size. I'm not taking this away from you, no.

This is a python. And not the funny kind. Still, if you don't bother him, he won't bother you.

Here I removed a lot of green in order to give some space to the other colours. It looks kind of better but I'm not very happy about it.

I must tell you that I like serpents. I find them fascinating. Maybe because they remind me of dinosaurs, that were one of my childhood obsessions?

Once again, some yellow and green had to leave room for the other colours. It looks kind of better.

Mosaics of the auditorium

At the auditorium of Sarah Bernhardt square, there are some nice mosaics, to which I will dedicate today's post. I found them too interesting to just ignore their existence. Also, I had the chance to see huge differences while editing. Let's see.

This is on the wall and on the floor, whose perimeter is used also as a pigeon bathroom. There are tons of light here, but they don't burn up the place.

This means that we can edit it and make the details show better. Very nice artwork, indeed.

This one is on the floor. Still a lot of light, which is not fair for the person or people who used so skillfully the little stones like three dimensional pixels.

Luckily, with some light manipulation, I believe that we have a better result now. I used a bit more saturation than usual, in an effort to intensify the colours even more.

Yeah, we have a third photo today. And there are still many nice shapes there. This one is also on the floor.

Some extra saturation was used here as well. Much better, right?

A mini concert at Sarah Bernhardt park

Today we had arranged a little gig at a park. And I say "little" because, well, we didn't have any electricity. We went there, we showed our permit to the guards and they gave us two chairs. We went to the auditorium, which is a round platform decorated with nice mosaics. A few songs in our program and the benches got all occupied with people who, even if they weren't very enthusiastic (I don't blame them, with 30ºC), they sat there after we started playing and that's encouraging.

The entrance. It's a very nice park but, at the same, I don't remember myself not liking a park.

With a bit of contrast and lowering the brightness, it certainly looks better.

The automatic white balance and the exposure of the Android app, give a good result in the auditorium but outside it's all burned beyond repair.

We see a bit difference after some adjustments have been made. Unfortunately, we couldn't save the left upper corner, which is a fundamental thing to know. If something is overexposed, it's ruined.