Photographic Accessories

Note: the following post contains a lot of photographic jargon, you may not want to read on, if so, enjoy the photos.

So I have some new toys that I recently bought, they're all slowly trickling through my mailbox to me. Each day a new parcel comes and it's like a lottery I know that I'm going to win except I don't know the prize. One by one the couriers bring them to me, starting first with the parts I need least followed by the parts I need most at the end (SD cards, how can I shoot without a SD card?)

So enough with the slow torture, here's what was awaiting usage.




After gathering what I could today I was left with the dreaded fate of no SD card to test out my new toy. So I had to borrow my mums hidden SD card. With minimal shots available from the measly 2GB I mucked around with the camera.

My fish vapor died 2 weeks ago, he was my first fighting fish in a long time, I owned him for about 5 or so months. He was my favorite fish until I got the big tank. RIP Vapor.
Shot using the D7000 with 60mm 2.8 Micro with a SB-700 to light. He's dried like that.

Marly Hotel

Shot a 21st for Natalie. Was a nice crazy hair night, although I did step in vomit...

I love this photo of Ayesha :)

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Clash of the excited fucking titans

When things are great things crash down fast, hur. Mum's been away for 1 week now and I'm finding it hard to cope, currently losing my mind. Uni is fine at the moment with review week passing it for the first time with flying colours. 

I couldn't ask for much more to be honest.

A few things in the last week have surprised me, one being that 'Fast Five' the fifth installment of the franchise 'The Fast & Furious' is actually very good and worth seeing. Sure it's not deep and meaningful movie but who would expect that? I got everything I expected from it and much more, left the cinemas wanting to drive fast and punch on with randoms. Definitely worth a watch if you're into the whole F&F franchise, it's the best one yet.

The complete opposite could be said for Sucker Punch which I saw about 2-3 weeks ago. It made my mind bleed. Speaking of bleeding is that last night changed my perspective on a few things. I guess it'll go into a life chapter in the future.

Yesterday also was a shoot I went to help out Kenny Son with for Show Pony, I didn't really help (guilty) but rather I painted some walls and got a little wet. It was fun and the model was amazing! (Chelsea Cole is hot!

It sucks when you have little to no paint left. And caps are minimal.

Fresh-son

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Online Life

I'm a Geek/Nerd/Hermit. Whatever you call it.

Well coming from years of being lonely and constantly sticking to my computer screen, it's raised me and affected me as it would most people, only a little bit more than others (Or not so much in some others). Coming from a background of heavy and what some would say unhealthy gaming (Well my Mum thought so, but truly it was never an extreme case) I've somewhat been shit bored with my current computer. I couldn't care less whether it was a PC or Mac (So don't give me that shit) but yeah at the moment it seems I'm spending more time looking at the physical thing itself than spending time doing something productive or whatever. 

1 year ago I would be playing DotA or spending long hours waiting for replies from my several accounts registered on the many forums that coincided with my hobbies. 2 years ago I would be playing games from DotA to CSS to whatever my computer could handle. Now? I'm playing Bejeweled and the occasional Words with Friends (Imagine Scrabble online if you don't have an iPhone/iOS device)

The actual portability of it lets me do other things but at the moment I'm doing nothing else other than watching content online or downloading movies/TV shows and listening to music waiting for the downloads to finish. I could be going out to take photos but I have this compulsive disorder to keep my computer organised... ahhh so I've bought a 2TB hard drive (Well it was originally Grace's but now mine) and now I've bought another 1TB just incase the 2TB fails on me. New speakers to replace the old ones that constantly had terrible feedback. Now my workhorse computer is amazingly sexy and hot and coupled with my iPad I can't seem to walk away without being mildly satisfied by it's cheap and short lived entertainment gimmicks that are distracting me from my real duties. I've been sucked into aesthetics and cheesy gadget gimmicks. But they satisfy me oh so much.

I couldn't comment or really pinpoint my actual reasoning of this post but it's more of a reminder whenever I look back onto my blog and see what I've achieved and what are my priorities...

Onto more relevant things that can be discussed and shared would be Gold Panda. Playing at the Beck's Bar at Sydney Festival he'll be tearing it up on the 14th of January 2011 (This Friday!) so I'll be there along with Sujin and Grace but if you read this blog and are also coming please feel free to contact me, I'm curious of who else enjoys him and is in my circle of friends (I find it really interesting talking to people you know about music and they have similar tastes to you, it's like finding out a secret about them).

I'm currently playing his two other albums, firstly I had Lucky Shinier, but downloaded 'Unreleased Medical Journal' and 'Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go' which are so far great on the ears. Speaking of good on the ears are my new speakers. 'Gigaworks T20' 2.0 speakers. They're very sexy and suit my computer very well.

Past recounts since my last post? I went to see Flying Lotus/Dam-Funk/GasLamp Killer/Opiuo. I was slightly disappointed when I heard Hudmo pulled out but it was amazing with Opiuo showing some new things I've never heard and Dam-Funk ripping it up followed by the energetic flow of FlyLo and to end it was GLK doing his intense and quirky set. I was tired but in the end I was still moving. I wish I brought my camera.

I have a few photo-shoots planned that I would like to see come into the light. It's just time to prepare now.

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Skin Shows Only So Much

Thanks to Kenny for a wonderful sublime day. I'm still speechless.
Check my Flickr for a bonus photo :) (If you're my friend on flickr)

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On Centre Stage

Today I watched Harry Potter and The Banshee Demons of Halloween Pt 1 with lovely Grace and Sujin. It was pretty dark and gruesome. But the best part was when Dobby died. I laughed for some reason. I just can't take his character seriously, he's just such a vagina. He gets jabbed and bleeds. I doubt I'm spoiling anything anyway, because unlike me I guess that majority of the readers would have read the Harry Potter book and if you haven't, have already seen the movie.

After the movie I ran from Town Hall to Oxford St trying to hail a taxi which I eventually did after dodging and punching a few taxis along the way. I ended up at The Forum for a shoot for 'Noggi'. A froyo brand that's hitting Sydney (There's a store in Macquarie Centre). Be sure to check it out!

Also I'd like to congratulate Lisa Lee for 2nd place in the Miss University! I had no idea it was on but I guess you're a superstar :) You looked stunning tonight!

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Mildly Comforted

So here is the next step to making myself a better photographer. Re-lighting the passion. The 35mm I feel is the right lens for me to shoot everyday. It's not too tight and not ridiculously wide. I also got to pick up my Rollei SL82. It's in working order and came with a cool leather case. Definitely going to rock it out this summer! Maybe this could be my transition from still to film. Either way I have an amazing summer to look forward to, sure the Road trip is probably not going to happen but that doesn't set me back from anything anyway. It's just more time to spend with others around me.

Here's a little porn for you all:

And a little test. It's been a while since I've taken a proper self-shot. I feel so damn stupid taking them :P

I cannot wait for Thursday and Friday. Thursday is dinner with Grace at a prime little restaurant. I doubt it'll be that awesome after tasting Gordon Ramsey's set, but hopefully it'll be close. I am also loving the weather, rain can wash away the sunshine and the heat but it can't stop me from dancing in the rain. Going to get some awesome shots in the next 2 weeks in the rain. I just love taking my camera in the rain/water. Knowing that it could be fucked up at any second (Well it's weather sealed...) makes it really fun seeing that everyone else leaves their babies at home. Also setting up a few surprises here and there, tinkering and wanting to build bigger and bigger. New projects are swirling in my mind everyday.

Listening to: The Mountain Goats

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What Am I?

Sometimes I'm unsure of exactly what I shoot. I personally dislike shooting certain things to be honest (I won't mention them but most people know what type it is) and truthfully there's only 2 things I love most.

'Candids' and 'The-Everyday'.

There's nothing more satisfying than capturing both. I'm not an arty photographer and I'm trying constantly to improve but after shooting for several years and perfecting nothing seems quite bland from where I stand. I guess it's only upwards from here on in.

Just collecting my primes and now, my poems. I've gone through some old archives of my poems and I think I'll type them out one day. Although most of them are morbid-gore, the other ones make me smile, I can also remember the mood and night I wrote all of them. What exactly was in my mind.

So I'll end this post with this poem that was never finished. I posted it on my blog about 10 months ago, January, I had an amazing entry (Well I think it is) and even til this day I can't finish it. It was dedicated to a friend and influenced by Portishead. Maybe it's suppose to be this short. I cut the other 2 lines because they were filler when I wrote it.

"Bitter taste in my mouth with a swish of wine to clear it out,

The trails of sweat and stains from my veins are constantly gushing out.

The truth pierces my heart; but I can't breath, constantly when I dream,

It's what l feel, your warm touch, the soft kiss, it's all surreal"

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COME HIT THIS

Mad props to Sujin for organising a great day :)

Be sure to check out Come Hit This! They're on hiatus but after this, I'm sure it'll be back!

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Drive down the road

Just some more experimental work.

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Photos at LoFi

Yay, my photos are up on the LoFi Collective Website

Article: http://www.wearelofi.com.au/collective/2010/09/yone-shake-that-ass/

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Studio Work

Thanks to Sophie and Bella for helping out :)

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Hair and Makeup

So I had dinner alone on Friday and made a sandwich containing Chicken, beetroot, cranberry sauce, fried onions, egg, capsicum, rocket, cheese, hash brown and a few other little things. It was so fun to eat.

Saturday I spent the day at Amanda's house helping out Mitchell shoot some stuff for Amanda's Expo thing. Mitchell convinced me to take photos using the Tamron with the DX crop removed... love for the lens ensued.

Yes, that massive lens Mitchell is shooting with is a Canon 85mm f1.2. I creamed my pants too.

Also created my first Zine, in 3D! I'll post previews when I get it printed :)

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Long & Awaited

It's about time timbo. You dropped the ball, now it's time to pick it back up.

There's a few new things in life, you need to concentrate and focus on Uni studies.

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