How I spent the long weekend
Had a good time with the Photokaki group as well as Angeline, Carace and Chris at Titiwangsa location. I will upload the photos once I am done. Here for now is the group photo
Sunlight KL.
I sent a friend of mine to the bus depot this morning and saw that the sunrise was going to be great.
I then went back home to quickly setup my gear to get this shot
While playing Star war:Forced Unleashed.
I found something that so totally makes it worth getting this game for……
Watch this you tube clip
Jar Jar Binks in carbonite! I found this clip that resemble what I found, I also decided to try and cut the whole block in half the minute I saw it!!!!
The current price of Fujifilm S5 pro.
Here is the current price of the Fujifilm S5 pro……….
Rm3,500……Damn what a drop…… This deal can be found at Shashinki
I really love this cam, just wish it had a bigger sensor and a little (READ LOTS!) faster and it would be perfect!
Get it if you’ve been waiting. I don’t think it will hold out much longer as Fujifilm appears to be pulling out of the DSLR race.
Till then, pleasant dreams~~~
What I bought at KLPF
Today and yesterday I read the greatest doujinshi in my life
This entry is for the fans of the old series of New Genesis Evangelion. I only recently found this doujinshi online and I’ll be honest, I didn’t sleep last night. I spent the whole time reading it all.
This doujinshi consist of 6 volume. I managed to find the fan translation version online , sadly I do not ever see this doujinshi getting translation officially as it contains scenes of sex and gore. Unless of course they modify it but I rather that they don’t. It’s integral to the story, this is not a hentai manga. The story is sooo brilliantly written, and romantic. IT NEEDS IT!
This manga is one of the many unofficially non-canonical continuation from the movie “The end of evangelion”. Sort of like a “what if” ending but it takes a mature and excellent approach (Hideaki Anno, EAT SHIT AND DIE!!),I so wish this had been the ending, its drawn so beautiful as well. Not like some crappy doujinshi but REALLY well! The story again I cannot re-iterate enough is so WONDERFUL! You’re not a true-blue eva fan if you have not read this doujinshi! READ it! It will make you so happy and give closure for to this anime series for you!!!
Published by STUDIO KIMIGABUCHI. This doujinshi for fans who wished for a better ending.
The volumes consist of :
1. Re-take 1
2. Re-take 2
3. Re-take 3
4. Re-take zero
5. Re-take 4
6. Re-take after.
It should be read in that order. I swear if there is a official translation version for this manga, I will BUY all of it!!
So until then pleasant dream! I didn’t sleep last night but I feel so awake…….I never felt this great in a long time already…..
The KL photography Festival and Digicolor
Though first we went to meet up with Boon another of Albert’s friend as he wanted to borrow a lens from him. The Minolta 85mm f/1.5
We spend quite a while doing a lot of comparisons between the Minolta lenses and the Nikon lenses to see their performance. Here is my 85mm f/1.8, the bokeh in Minolta 85mm had their own distinstive character where the bokeh were stronger.
Do not make me jump through hoops
I don’t mean the actual sense, metamorphically speaking of course. Whether it’s for a Job interview (Photography related assignment or day job). I think I speak for everyone when they have encountered situations like this, “Do not make me jump through hoops”
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A few photos from Eugene and Carine wedding in KL
For a photographer though this type of shooting are the true test of your skills, it’s either a hit or miss. Do or don’t do, there is no try. I’ll be bleeding honest, I stink at wedding photography! Especially the fact when I have to sit at the head table! Though that doesn’t stop me and my D700
So here are a few shots I managed to take while “seated” at the table.
My Sister Janice
My parents
The chocolate before me.
And the groom and bride.
Anyway, these are not photos straight out of the cam. The color originally was terrible! I wish I had brought my S5 pro instead which would have nailed the color perfectly! But a last, poor judgement; nevertheless I made do.
So until then, pleasant dreams
Nikon 85mm f/1.8
It’s considered to be one of the best portrait lens considering focal length-wise of course. On a crop sensor it’s still considered quite a good portrait lens as it becomes 135mm.
KL Urbanscape photography.
Here are some of the shoots I took, see if you can recognise the places. It was a very overcast day but I try to make do nonetheless
Here are some new black and white pics I took on my way to work.
I spotted this at Mid Valley…….
I thought “Wow! Bet I’ll never see a shop here sell that! Who would be crazy enough to bring in that lens to sell here? No one in Malaysia I believe would buy it.”
Anyway, last night I stopped by Mid valley to unwind and was just looking around when I spotted this .
My jaw dropped at that sight. Some shop actually had the balls to bring it in!!!! The price of this sucker is RM53,888!!!! That’s more then my hire purchase for my CAR! This is only a manual lens! For crying out louds! with such a price tag I expect the glass to be made from ruby quartz! As well as the lens material to be titanium!!!! But strangely, I did some background check, aside from the fast aperture of about f/1.0, there is nothing else special about this lens.
My next big question, what kind of idiot buys such a lens?! @_@
D700 + 14-24mm
Testing different types of flash setup style.
For this test I will be using my figurine Momo.
For starters, let go with the basic 2 lamp types which I picked up a Ikea for RM60 each (inclusive of light bulb if I remember correctly)
Here I have 2 lamps setup
Yeah! Its fixed!
Yesterday after leaving work, I headed out for YL cameras at Pudu to pick up my camera.
Here is a shot of it after I got home. It’s all fixed! I was worried that I would have had to pay a huge sum just to have the glass repaired! But the only quoted me Rm100 for the repair and it only took a day to fix it up!
Anyway, I’m going to test it out along with my Velbon VC6 as well which I had picked up frm Hike Enterprise in Penang! So until then pleasant dreams~~!!
Best advice I can give.
To people who want to take up photography as a hobby.
Worse things happen at the last minute.
Crap. I had dropped my power adaptor for my macbook onto my Fujifilm s5 pro. At first I didn’t realized I had done anything wrong until my brain replayed the faint sound of something cracking again.
Penang, potholes a many
I think the main reason for this was the recent heavy flooding throughout the whole island. I wanted to do some photoshooting around the island but the weather has been none too cooperative with heavy overcast the whole day and sometimes even dark gloomy clouds like yesterday. This really makes my life a little hard to live here.
Overall I would say my Penang apartment is still in good shape especially after doing some serious cleaning. Right now I so wish I could find a buyer for it. I could use the infusion of cash right about now. Though that’s not to say I’m in any cash flow problem but I don’t work in Penang anymore and maintaining a second place in Penang while staying in KL does present a problem where I have to come and check up on the place every 3 months.
In any event, I’ll be heading back down to KL this Sunday. So until then, pleasant dreams~~
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