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I was the leader for Costa Rica in the Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photowalk that happened on July 24th and I planned for this instance to visit the “Plaza de la Cultura” in San Jose. This boulevard is pretty much the heart of San Jose as it’s the one that sees the most people walking by any given day.

During the weekends and holidays there are street performers and clowns entertaining people as they walk by and daily you see a lot of people selling from cheap toys to pirated DVDs to leather belts and wallets to original audio CDs to paintings, most of which are done right there on the boulevard, and these are people that usually come from other countries to make a living out of selling these things because they can’t find other jobs.

The photo above was taken around the Melico Salazar theater and it’s the area where the most street performers gather.

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It’s been a while since I’ve taken a photo of myself and people always tell me that I don’t have photos of myself, so here you go.

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A while ago I read this post from the Epic Edits Blog and one of the pieces of gear that was mentioned by Brian Auer was the split image focusing screen from Haoda Screen which makes custom focusing screens for DSLRs and I instantly wanted one.

I began researching a bit into the subject and found that it was possible to replace the focusing screen found in the Nikon D60, which is the camera that I have, with one that had the split image in the middle, like those vintage SLRs. Since I don’t really have a good quality method of taking a photo of the viewfinder of my camera, I’ll have to look onto the Internet to better explain what this is to those of you who don’t know what a split image focusing screen is…so here we go with a couple of links and images

First we have a photo from Flickr which shows the split image focusing screen

Photo by Juan Buhler

As you may have noticed there is a small circle in the middle of the image and that’s exactly what the split image is all about. The we have the following link which provides a review on one of these focusing screens as well as a link to a more in depth article on how the whole technology works and it’s drawbacks

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