Yesterday I was out shopping with Jen when I came across Ride bindings in a store. I found myself a set of LX while Jen was trying on boots.
My old bindings are awesome, and I love em but they started showing their age last year. Based on that, I got the current version of the same model. Win.
Jen’s company christmas party was fun. I got a new pinstripe blazer for the night, and Jen looked great in a black dress. She asked me to shoot the evening, so I brought my camera gear along. The banquet room turned out to be a mix of low light incadescent bulbs and bright light flooding through a glass wall, so it made things interesting. I couldn’t directly flash people without gels; which I didn’t have on me and I couldn’t bounce or diffuse that well while keeping the nice ambient light in the pictures.
There’s a few things I could’ve tried, looking at the pictures now. I’m not very happy with them, but I can produce much better work… but at the same time I’m happy my focus calibration worked as I had hoped.
I need to get a flash bracket, some gels and a proper diffuser.
I got confirmation of my bonus today, so I went a head and ordered a Pentax DA* 50-135mm. I’ve been lusting after this lens since it was announced, and now my DA* 16-50 will have a companion.
It also happens to be the most useful focal range for the type of commercial photography I’ll probably be starting at; which makes it a great business tool.
That’s what my camera needed to attain perfect focus. I decided I should tweak the focus today so I looked into the process of unlocking the debug menu in my camera; did a little testing and finished with a shift of 100uM forward.
I’m pretty blown away by the difference. It’s like taking a shitty filter off a great lens.
I’ve rewritten the javascript to be cleaner and faster. The update also includes bookmarkable urls and smart anchors. Now I need to start on the content.
It’s pretty inconsistent and manual is so easy.
It’s taken a few months, but the algae is finally declining. I might get corals shortly after christmas.
I registered and setup a simple webpage for my portfolio at jasonmulligan.com. This is essentially v0.1 and will be fleshed out to be much more stylish.
We setup our tree on Sunday. It’s awesome.
I finally setup the Dice components in my car on the weekend. It’s so nice having music again.
