k-5 debut :D

took my k-5 for its maiden voyage today. in all honesty, not super excited about the shots themselves, cause went to deer lake for em and parks are just....boring, for me now. like, honestly, unless i've never been there before and it's legitimately fresh and new and different, parks are just too boring.

that said, the process of taking photos was absolutely  great. the k-5 simply felt great in hand, felt great to shoot. the combined incredibly sexy sounding shutter and 7 fps meant i shot wayyyy  more than was justified - ended up deleting about 75, if not 85% of my shots. and, the autofocus, my god the autofocus. so much more accurate and quick! too awesome. and being able to see my AF points was a huge boon too, finally (though i did miss a few shots cause the idea of changing AF points was so foreign to me. operator error ^__^)

i can't wait to do some street (or landscape, somewhere new) with my k-5 :D though that's not to say i didn't end up with shots i liked today....

i think probably my favorite of the day. once i converted this to B&W the contrast really came alive for me.

classic FA limited 3d "pop"

while these're just ordinary stems in colour, i thought they looked so epicly alien in B&W :D

did i mention autofocus speed/accuracy/7fps?

before, my d-fa 100 wr rarely made it out of the bag. sure it was a nice lens, but the act of having to menu dive to fix the autofocus (which wasn't even always consistent,  on my k-x) just simply killed the fun for me. that's what the k-5's done for me - by getting all these little things like autofocus out of the way, it just lets me enjoy it all. and now my d-fa 100, which before had such a bad connotation in my mind, is now making a comeback :D

so all in all, one tiny step for a portfolio, one giant leap for my photography.

i can't wait till i can get out with this thing again.

till then, adorable duckling!

random sidenote unrelated to anything. i like music. i've been...diversifying a lot. it's been a while since i downloaded a metal album or anything like that; i've pretty much stopped exploring metal bands all together...  been absolutely loving the newest rise against album though. and, some indie-ish stuff, a la The Airborne Toxic  Event. killer band, love their lyrics/somewhat sarcastic/ah fuck it type of sound. and some more mainstream music, like pink or rihanna or katy perry. iunno. i think i've been really embracing what someone said at some point, music is music. if you like it, listen to it. if not, don't. who cares who it's by or what genre it is. sounds like common sense but i'm just figuring this shit out now ^__^