A little Joy

There is a little joy that I found since last week. My leg is getting better!! Yes.. it came as sort of a surprise for me.. I was preparing a decent fund for the ELWT last resort to cure my leg.. yet slowly it is diminishing. I hope it could get better as  I began to lose weight. Then I can really spend the money somewhere else. It is indeed something that I am looking forward to for a long long time.

The other piece of kickstart is the training for TCR. Thought of getting Lam and Alan in the game.. but Lam is too busy with his work at this moment.. So hopefully Alan could stick to the game plan to train together at Putrajaya every Tuesday and Thursday.

I guess I could spend more time in the pool training for my swimming as well.

Hopefully in a few months time my leg will totally heal and get back to some slow run.

Swim in Bukit Jalil again

Its been awhile since I swim consistently already. I am going to make it an everyday affair and looking at improving all area in swimming.

One of the greatest motivation is the hot weather.. A good two hours swim could really prove useful for sleep at night. The cooling effect is there.

I now hydrate myself properly throughout and surprisingly find that I am less fatigue and recover faster!! Damn.. should have know and understand this long time ago.

The good news is I am able to 80% now grab back my swimming technique and manage to slash 5 stroke down to 48 strokes today. A little bit of improvement today..

I am hoping to be able to keep the 48 strokes throughout and increase my lapses more and more and hopefully hitting 60 lapses by end of next week.

Target to slash down to 45 strokes as well..

Tokina 11 - 16 f2.8 first test shot

 Good wide perspective..

 Given the right angle.. it is puncy and deliver.. love every bit of the 2.8 that stand out.

 Tokina possess a certain sharpness at 2.8 which the Tamron does not yield. It depend on your taste. I can say the lens is much more well expose than the tamron lens.. as of this case with Sony mount.

 That seemingly depth of field is well fading away.. love it.

 I wish the bokeh could be a little more creamy at 2.8 but this is quite lovely.

 beautiful contrast and sharpness from this.

 This I think is around 3.5 to 4 I guess..

Was rather busy this few days..and finally able to test a bit of the tokina in the morning. Ironically, this lens was used by the Production company to shoot me for their client.. I was really amazed! haha..

I told them I am getting this lens tomorrow.

Though the unit I got has expired its warranty but the previous two owners took good care of it.. Well, its justifiable to safe RM400 -RM500 from here and secure my lens collection for this year. This is also the most costly lens I had ever bought. Haha...

When I started photography my initial passion is landscape. However, the price of a Sony wide angle and lack of third party lens really put off my dream for awhile. Actually it was quite some years ..since 2006.

All the above have not been PP and come straight out of the camera.

Come to think of it.. luckily I didn't jump for the Sigma 10-20..

CA is visible.. but PP can take care of it and also it was not as obvious as such a distraction anyway.

The vignetting is really well control and love every bit of it.

I hope to be able to shoot some stuff this weekend.

Done lens collection for the year 2012

My schedule this year for lens collection is left with Tokina 11-16 F2.8 UWA. There is once chance that slip away previously.

So it came by two days ago and got to met up with the seller who apparently stayed quite near to my place. Now my anxiety for Taiwan trip is iron out. Haha.. but need to work extra extra hard now.

Well, can't really comment of this Tokina yet... Maybe a trip to the river to shoot this weekend could be fun!!

Bee that kick the bucket

 Found this bee on the floor this morning. I had hardly shoot much macro on insects actually. So a dead "captive" seems reasonably convenient and minus all the panic to capture the moment.. taking all the own sweet time I want.

 Although this ring flash is TTL. There are still limitation to firepower but consider working pretty decent around f4 - f16 for the range of flashing.. just a little minus or plus flash compensation one you get use to understand this flash.. which is quite easy to use for that kind of budget.

 on a decent sleeping position.. I doubt they do that in their lifetime..

 just a test shot with my 1.8 on the propeller of this Spitfire model.

 Now here a f16 I guess.. I think above f16.. suffering from diffraction and softness is quite visible already.

This is around F8 or F11 I guess.. pretty sharp..

test

test

The Brenizer Method

This is my first Brenizer Method pic that I did. Pretty cool stuff and hope to get some nice shoot soon. 


Been overspending the whole month and literally went broke soon.. :p.. touch wood. Anyway, Got myself some cheapo home studio lighting with brolly and softbox.. and also cheapo Filter for outdoor shooting.


To get really kiasu.. I bought another two manual YongNuo 560 flash. Pretty cool seriously. 


Now with just the tokina UWA to add to list this year and complete my 2012 collection. 


So this weekend hope to shoot some good night portraits and these brenizer method or bokeh panorama.. what's the different with focus stacking anyway.. haha.. find out soon..