Some updates!

Hey guys!

Its been almost 2 weeks since I last blogged! Been tired and busy lately! So yea... I don't remember much but I'll blog what I can. Celebrated my colleague's birthday and played pool and came home at like 1 plus or 2 in the morning. It was a great session! I won all 3 rounds of pool, first 2 I won by myself and last one I won by default though we played in teams :D

My boss's son is finally born into this world as well! And its been a crazy few days setting up an exhibition somewhere but its finally up! I left my bag in the office for nearly a week!

I finally got the green light to have the Canon Pro 9000 repaired and I'm convinced now. Anything that I buy from Harvey Norman above a certain value, I'll buy the extended warranty. XD So excited for its repair and then printing on different types of paper!

I recently rented the Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8G and the Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8G to shoot Queensway Secondary School's aesthetic night which happened on the 8th of July 2011!

Part of my gear for the night


The lenses


Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8G VRII


Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8G


My first time shooting an assignment with my full Nikon gear.

1. Nikon D3
2. Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8G
3. Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8G
4. Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8G VRII
5. Metz 45 CL-1 Handle mount flash
6. Quatum Turbo Battery
7. Nikon SB700 (Carried just in case)

The weight was bearable. I will be using a similar setup when I shoot my colleague's wedding in September with the addition of the Nikkor 85mm f1.4D lens. Basically I rented the 14-24 and 70-200 but I only used the 14-24 for a few shots which made me question why did I even rent that lens in the first place. In total, I shot slightly over 750 shots with 2 8GB Lexar memory card. I was kinda trigger happy, shooting as ISO 1600 and 3200. Some at ISO 800, I seriously have to find the balance for the Metz and the D3.

So to date, I've processed all my boss's son pictures as well as one of the exhibition images and about 100 odd photos from the aesthetic night. I wanted to burn the images into a CD-R only to realize I've ran out of it -.-" So yea... I gotta get a new stack. The D3 RAW files are pretty easy to edit but somehow still not used to its colour yet... Sadly...

Today I got my preserve it matte spray from Krylon at art friend! I got it at the Buona Vista outlet. It was really quiet and nice and cooling! Its like heaven to me as many stuff I would likely to use is available there and its near! I've sprayed one photo of mine and its safe to handle but I gotta wait about another 18 hours or so for it to dry and be mounted back into its frame but its looking good!

After spraying the protective spray, I realize I really need a respirator to filter out the toxic gas. I've sent an enquiry to 3M and am waiting for a reply. I've also decided that my computer table needs to have its wheel replace or rather, replace my entire table. In order to do so, I'll need to remodel my room and I will be spending time on a 3D model of my room with furniture from IKEA. Many things need to be throw though. Throw away old stuff as well as donating my old clothes to the Salvation Army. I only need a few sets of clothes apparently :S

So yea... That's all for tonight! Hope I'll get back the habit of blogging and hope I have more things to share. I'm quite excited to change my room :D Good night world!