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OBJECTION!

crazybobbles — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:48:23 +0000

You’ll probably need this to accompany it

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My new Canon 5d Mk II

crazybobbles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:53:29 +0000

Well, this was what I bought, a Canon 5d Mkii. It is, in my opinion, the best digitial DSLR camera out there right now, packing all the best features for a DSLR camera including a meaty 21megalopixel count, amazing noise reduction, hd movie recording, full frame goodness, a decent 3.9 fps burst shot, live view, 3inch lcd screen with 900k pixel LCD and loads more packed in a tiny "compact" form factor. This camera will last me quite a long time and will provide an ungodly amount of flexibility to what I can do (including shoot those damn HD movies).

Anyway, I’m still pumped as ever from it, got loads to learn and hopefully I’ll make good use of it with gigs and whatnot where light is ridiculously low.

I’ve called her “Regina” after the late great (she’s not dead but I like using the phrase) Regina Spektor. I never really gave my other DSLR camera a name but ever since I’ve been naming cameras and laptops, it’d only be fair to give Regina a name.

Full frame is definitely nice, and shooting with crazy iso ratings is fun, the noise is hardly noticeable and even if you can see it, it definitely looks nicer than entry level noise. The one issue I have right now is that since the introduction of full frame into my gear, I’m in dire need of a x1.6 50mm focal length. I’ll need an 85mm f1.8 usm to ensure I regain that focal length back because I need to be super close to the band in order to shoot them .

So yeah, say hello to Regina, my new prized DSLR camera Here are some shots taken tonight at a really low light condition, the band were Official Secrets Act

Might want to see them in super big to appreciate the lack of noise

oh and here’s a video of Anika doing a little dance, in hd

Click here to see the video

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Most munny spent

crazybobbles — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:08:34 +0000

Well, I made sure the purchase was going to be nice and impromptu, my mum even warned my that I will be spending quite heavily this year which I can totally see why, I really have no self control when it comes to buying something I really want. Luckily I have saved quite a lot of money from the past so it’s not like I’m in super debt buying this.

Anyway, I’ve informed most of the people close to me about what I’ve bought and pretty much gave it away on my twitter feed if you’re following me on that so yeah. I finally bit the bullet of truth and purchased it, felt ever so anti climatic when I did it but I know it’s going to be the toughest two days ever waiting for the product to arrive in my warm welcoming hands.

I changed the tooltip using firebug by adding a nice “title” attribute to the link in case you were wondering if the checkout page actually had that when you hovered on the checkout button.

I’m expecting delivery either on Tuesday, if not I’ll just cry (because I’m getting it delivered to work and I will be on holiday on Thursday and Friday).

But yeah, I wanted to savour this one moment where I spent an ungodly amount of munny! It somehow didn’t pick up the £50 voucher I used so I’m a bit worried there

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Apple Mac Pro vs Canon 5d mk ii

crazybobbles — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:49:03 +0000

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It’s like sophie’s choice but for geeks. After purchasing emmeee, I’ve had my mind set on buying some extravagant instead of focusing on the ickle things, so I’m stuck with 2 objects of desire, an Apple Mac Pro 2.26ghz 8 core desktop computer or a Canon 5d mk ii Full Frame DSLR camera. If you know neither of these products you might as well stop reading now.

Both have their advantages; the Mac Pro will get me into the world of Apple and play around with resource hungry apps like Photoshop and Lightroom with lickerty lightning speed whilst the Canon 5d Mkii will help me substancially for low light gig photography with it’s awesome lack of noise at high iso’s and its full frame architecture, my second reason also being it being able to record in HD.

The funny thing is that Mac Pro will help me out most when I actually have the Canon 5d since I would be shooting in crazy 21 megapixel resolutions in RAW meaning it would sure help to have a beef PC handling those images. I would also be able to start doing some proper music with pro tools and whatnot since I have all the gear I need, just not much time to play around with it.

Man so much geekiness in this post. Photography or Geekery? The question is obviously which one i need out of the two, the answer being neither because I already have a desktop PC and a DSLR camera, it’s just nice to have some proper high end gear to make things a little bit awesome, so uhm… yeah.. here’s a poll (really need to use this option more)

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Emmeee the great (my new netbook)

crazybobbles — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:06:04 +0000

Ladeees and gentlefolk, let me introduce you to my new travelling companion, Emmeee! Since my old laptop is with someone else I thought I’d get myself a laptop for times where I’m travelling, visiting folks, or wanting to kill infected zombies and go on instant messenger at the same time to talk about said killings.
I decided that laptops arent really the way to go for me, mainly because I tend to carry all my camera gear and whatnot along, so something light and portable was the key. In comes netbooks. These inexpensive yet portable laptops match all my outdoor needs and will hopefully ensure that I’ll stay both productive and multitaskable throughout the day…. oh and it’s white haha.

She’s called Emmeee after the late great Emmy the Great (she’s not dead but I love using that phrase to describe people). So yeah, if you catch me mentioning the name Emmeee, you’ll know its her

Caution: Geeky stuff
I also called her Emmeee because she’s an Asus EEE PC 901 netbook. I got the Linux edition which comes with 20gb SSD, 1.3mega pixel webcam, Intel Atom 1.6ghz CPU, 802.11b/g/n wifi and loads moar! I upgraded her a few days later with 2gb ram and have installed Windows XP (nLited for that extra lightweight goodness) on her as well as reenable boot booster (which shaves 5 seconds off boot time making it load up in 25 seconds). She’s loaded up with all the opensource/freeware apps I’ve grown to love including Pidgin for IM, Firefox and Chrome for browsing, dropbox for file synching, notepad++ for blogging, VLC for videos and music, picasa 3 for photo browsing and google desktop for widgets and whatnot. It’s all nice and light and perfect for blogging or browsing on the go (mainly blogging since it’s rare getting free wifi). There’s also other apps including Skype and Microsoft Office for the proprietary goodness.

The battery life on it is amazing (can take it out and use it for a proper day without worrying that the battery will die on you). I’m still coming to terms with the teeeny tiny keyboard, I get loads of typos but most of the time I’m pretty good and all. Multitouch is also a good addition to the netbook since I can do all those flashy things I love in the macbooks like going forwards and backwards pages using a 3 finger swipe, rotating and other bits and bobs.

I’ll write more about it when I’ve got to know it a bit more, but for now, that’s about it

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One point five bytes of TERROR

crazybobbles — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:35:38 +0000

That’s not the hard drive I’m getting btw, but yes! On Friday I ordered myself a lovely 1.5 terrobyte (mmm terror) for my PC. It seems that going to so many gigs can really put a strain on my hard disk, especially when I come home with 4gb of RAW photos. They take up quite a lot of memory so yeah, rather than trying to find something to delete everytime I upload something, I best get myself a meaty new hard disk to solve this problem once and for all. Will be doing some late night blogging to make sure I’m up to date. I’ve realised that it really looks like I haven’t done much due to lack of blogging activity but nope, been gigging like crazy and had no time to write about it. Except loads of updates in a bit!

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Add me on twitter?

crazybobbles — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:18:54 +0000

I’ve had my twitter account quite a long time ago but on private, it has it’s advantages but I thought making it public will allow me to integrate stuff with my site and whatnot, so i pretty much deleted my entire account and started anew.

So yes, add me on http://twitter.com/crazybobbles! If you haven’t tried twitter, give it a go, it’s pretty ace for micro blogging.

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Sometimes, people make a war

crazybobbles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:36:11 +0000

Amazing, absolutely amazing. Apparently they make war for business. This is “Speak” a random Hungarian Rapper, his lyrics are truly inspiring and heartwarming. I’ve been singing this with my coworkers all day long. Good times.

Update: Just managed to learn how to play this brilliant tune on guitar, though someone has already covered it

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Happy New Year Everyone, Lets start something new!

crazybobbles — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:57:17 +0000

Happy New Year folks
Hope everyone is enjoying their first day into year 2009. This year I’m going to join the herd and start on project 365. Looking at my photo folders I pretty much saw a daily stream of photos so why not turn this into a committed photography project. The community feels friendly and cheery so I’m definitely going to enjoy meeting other fellow 365′ers along the way. I think most of my 365 photos will be pretty much focused on music, movies, books, things i buy, places i go and food i eat (and then pretty much whatever comes my way).
So yes! Lets start fresh with a nice countdown shot.

This shot was taken literally at midnight, I took a lot of practice runs to ensure the watch was in focus (f4 to be sure and trying out my external flash to give the hand some tone) and it came out pretty good. The problem was obviously showing that it was midnight on my watch, I tried illuminating the watch but that lost all the blue and dark coolness of the shot so there wasn’t much to do. I like this shot because it was one of those “you only get one shot at this” shots where if I missed (or in this case mess up with the dark watch face), then I’d have to accept the mistakes and consequences. Hopefully this is what the year is going to be about, not trying to achieve perfection and just experiment with whatever I have already.

Some more rambles about this shot, yes, whilst everyone was partying it up, enjoying fireworks or celebrating with others, I was sat in my room taking this shot. Nobody’s home so it was pretty much on my own (and I decided against going to a party to avoid being alone in a crowd). But I made the most of it and spent the rest of the evening watch DIE HARD 4.0 on bluray with the sound system turned up to the max (sorry neighbours!) I stopped halfway to watch the rest in the morning since it was 2am.

Happy new year everyone! If you’re a fellow photographer who hasn’t done project365, I recommend you do it.

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Acquired Talents

crazybobbles — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:12:36 +0000

From the lovely Dueling Analogs. Finished watching the finale of Heroes Season 3…. not impressed. I’ll leave it at that before someone goes “SPOILER ALERT”. Hmm, i might make a spoiler tag for the blog haha, but I doubt I’d be talking about Heroes all the time.