Some updates

Hey guys!

So yea... Currently in the office right now, some update. Nothing much has been going on lately though. Recently Queensway turned 50! A happy belated birthday to my secondary school! And I was there for the 50th anniversary gala dinner at the Pines Club! Its pretty cool seeing so many people there. Many whom I know, and many more whom I do not know =S

Its quite sad that many people who I sort of grew up with didn't go =( But well... I guess that's life. And for the first time! I got a ticket! YAY! But I didn't win anything... T_T





So yea, that's the design of the ticket, pretty neat. And other stuff, there was a goodie bag!





What was inside was some magazine, some oil thing for aromatherapy thingy, a 50th anniversary coin and some vouchers which my mother took, hence it isn't in the picture =.=




The coin in its case


The Queensway badge


The Queensway alumni logo



The day after the anniversary, I rented an instant printer for the first time! Its a Fujifilm ASK 2000. It was one kind of heavy! Seriously! So anyway, I also rented the Elinchrom D-Lite-it 4 to go kit to use in my setup. It's pretty good and portable. 2 softboxes, 2 monoblocs, 2 stands, all in 2 bags. I'm considering buying it though the bad thing is the modelling lights cannot be fine tuned. Its just 3 modes, dim, full or off. Not a huge deal breaker since I don't recall a time I actually fine tune the modelling lights. Just turn it on, adjust, shoot. I've also come to realized that my 15ft USB cable is long but may not be long enough. Shooting tethered, some students tripped over the cable despite it being white against a dark floor! So I'm getting the USB repeater making it a total of approximately 60 feet if I'm not wrong. Whatever excess I'm not using, I'll just tie it with cable tie and shoot!

On Tuesday, I returned both the lights and the printers and went to collect a Western Digital 7200RPM Scopio black hard drive. I got a good deal hence I bought it, due to expensive price, I quickly went for it!

After cloning the hard drive and before installing it into my laptop.


So yea... So far so good, its been less than a day and the Scropio sped up my ASUS laptop a little bit faster! Can't beat and SSD or even the Velociraptor at the least, but it will do. Now waiting for prices to drop before I get a Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB for my desktop =/

The year is coming to an end and well, my shopping also has gotta stop. Decided to add the D lite from Elinchrom to my gear list, but not sure when I'll get it. I asked Cathay Photo just now (they're the official distributor locally) and well, its 1200 for the kit and an extra head will cost probably like 600? Rounded off. The problem is the 2 softboxes in the set are exactly the same, else could probably get 2 sets instead of 1. But the Manfrotto stand can support 10kg and well... The d lite heads are pretty light so I though why not get slightly different light modifiers? Also... Gotta do my D.I.Y skylight as well... Hmmm.... Being a photography ain't cheap nor easy... Anyway, that's all for now! Good day everyone!