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New bindings!
December 15, 2008 - 12:19 pm (Misc - Photography)

Ride LX '08

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 office christmas party was fun
December 15, 2008 - 12:13 pm (Photography - Relationship)

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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.

Woohoo!
December 12, 2008 - 12:33 pm (Photography)

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.

A difference of 100uM
December 10, 2008 - 12:53 pm (Photography)

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.

jasonmulligan.com Updated
December 9, 2008 - 5:11 pm (Photography - Work)

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.

jasonmulligan.com

I don’t like Pentax’s P-TTL flash sync
December 7, 2008 - 11:26 pm (Photography)

It’s pretty inconsistent and manual is so easy.

The reef is finally bouncing back
December 5, 2008 - 12:44 am (Aquarium - Photography)

New setup

It’s taken a few months, but the algae is finally declining. I might get corals shortly after christmas.

Soft launched my portfolio site
December 4, 2008 - 5:08 pm (Photography - Work)

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.

Our first Christmas Tree
December 1, 2008 - 10:26 pm (Photography)

Our first tree

We setup our tree on Sunday. It’s awesome.

My car has music!
November 26, 2008 - 1:47 pm (Car - Photography)

Tunes!

I finally setup the Dice components in my car on the weekend. It’s so nice having music again.

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