Tuesday, April 26, 2011

digital camera

In general, I don`t use advanced technology and I`m not technological person. For example, my cell phone is cheap, my lap top is very basic and my pen drive is oldest. However, I like so much photography and all related stuff. For this reason, today I`m gonna talk about my favorite piece of technology: my digital reflex camera, which model is a Cannon Ti1. I love it because I can to take a lot of pictures, put in practice my knowledge of photography and, also, this model have a great definition! So, my pictures are very nice.
I got it this year, in March by the way. A friend helps me to find the camera cheaper that Chilean market because a photographer brings to country a lot of professional and semi-professional cameras from United States.  So, like my camera was very difficult to obtain and also very expensive, I use it with as lot of care.
When I turned the digital camera, I didn`t understand anything: in the screen had a lot of numbers and I didn`t know the meaning it.  So, I had to apply technicalities of analogous camera to digital camera for take a good picture:  speed of shutter, aperture, ISO, balance, etc.  And step to step I know more about my digital camera and I can to take better pictures. Despite of my limited time, I use my camera regularly, like twice each week. This way I can practice.
Really, my life without my camera would be not very different. I love it, I admit that, but the digital camera is not essential for a basic life: my camera can`t feed me or it can`t give me comfort for sleep, just is a pleasure for my soul.
Do you have a digital camera? If you have one, what make is? What means for you?

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

enjoy my free time


Hi! Today I`m gonna talk about free time, which is few for a student. I say this because my life is very busy between class, homework, study, conferences, assistantships, testetc.; almost all my time I stay in the campus of University. However, I try to balance duties with pleasure or else, I could be stress.
For this reason, I enjoy all my free time doing activities interesting for me; for example, I read (stuff with relation to sociology or novels ), write poetry or my personal diary, practice guitar (because I`m very bad), visit web pages (mostly, newspaper online and youtube), take pictures (of landscape or to people), go to the theater (because I like to see play and dance), listen music, watch TV (in particular cartoons), go to parties, or simply, I like to see a movie in bed. But I don`t have a fixed patron, just depend on my mood or who I`m with (because I can be to my friends or my family, and the activities are different).
Of course, what I do with my free time has change in the time. I comparison, when I were child my free time consisted in played with my dolls, with my friends, with mud. Also, I loved saw TV and I used to costume. Anyway, my mother incentivized me for read stories.
I think that this year I been use my time of better way that last year, which makes me very happy because I have been learning  many things and enjoy all this time.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

El Ciudadano

Hi!
You don`t know about my career: I study sociology.
 In this field is very important know and control the theory (for example what say Durkeheim, Weber, Marx, Parson, etc.). However, this discipline can`t be away of reality (it don`t have sense).  For this reason, I visit newspaper website where it talk about social, political and environmental facts. Also, for me is very important know what happen in the world, but not only in a conventional mass media - because it represent position of power-. So, I search alternative media because it gives me a different analysis of news.
All nights, I like to read “El ciudadano” (the link is: www.elciudadano.cl ) because is a newspaper online that write about environment, politic, social organization, economy, education, art, justice and human rights, etc. and it have a independent posture about news.
The website consist in a lot of news, a T.V section (Ciudadano TV), survey about citizen topic, editorial, interviews, artistic photography, radio (El Ciudadano radio), a list of other alternative newspapers online, a list of interest media and a few advertising.
Really this website helps me to connect with all important success. Also, I know a different opinion.
I invite you to visit similar website and open your mind.