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Cripes anyone still buying or just plain collecting Laserdisc? I still have some american release anime on LD…

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Playing with the 85mm Lens. Man, when you have multiple different color temp lightsources AND a flash… the colors are just a total PITA.. So prefer real outdoor light…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docstampede/4059671817/ for one other.

85mm going to take a little getting used to..

New 85mm f1.8 says HBW!

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Just got my new 85mm f1.8.

*drool* *drool* *DROOL*

I cannot wait to take this on a full shoot.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday! XD

Sorry for not posting much this past week or two. Have been alternately busy with real life job, some Bioshock, and getting my rear end spanked at the poker table. But mostly dealing with the day job. I’ll post some fun stuff soon!

Digital age, Paper technique

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My improvised “Film Scanner”…

Testing out a new workflow, so decided to try using Lightroom 2 for the entire gallery. I’m starting to get a feel for how it’ll speed up some of my more casual galleries, and it will definitely make generating galleries easier (with automatic watermarking and border making as provided by LRMogrify — thanks Scott) but its definitely got some… quirks.

Still need to see if I can get Noise Ninja to play nicely with it too. And I’m already thinking I’m going to adjust the border and add some contact information or maybe other info to the bottom.

But for now, some quick pics from my Boston trip – here on Flickr.

Spent Friday and Saturday Morning working at the “day job” – keeping busy.

Saturday afternoon was occupied with meeting up with Anna, running home, cooking, then heading over to Radio City Music Hall for the Lord of the Rings orchestra/choir performance. Hobbits!

Epic moments were punctuated by an entire choir standing in unison, and laughs at watching the children’s choir try not to look bored. The show was great, with my only major critique being their sound balancing. See, they showed the movie WITH SFX and dialogue, with the track stripped out and performed instead by the live orchestra. This was a surprise to me already, but their pre-recorded audio was just a hair too loud for the first half of the movie. Thankfully they adjusted for this after the intermission, just in time to hit some of the really epic scenes.

The solo vocalists raised eyebrows, they were excellent. Afterwards, Howard Shore was signing autographs but only for box sets of 60 or 100 dollars each. Seeing the hour long line, we decided to take some photos and hit the road. Went to Roxy’s, where I had a sammich as large as my head.

Sunday was a mostly lazy day filled with Futurama. Went back to Chinatown, saw her off, and rushing home to now work on “real life” work again.

Would gladly repeat weekend, wish it wasn’t abbreviated, and its back to work on Monday.

Alright, I admit it took me long enough.. I’ve been sorta busy. ^_^;;   New logo, as well as watermark variants for photos.

Balancing Act

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I was dared to not post any pics of this girl for a week, and so I did not.

But, it has been a week, so we’re back to normal posting.

(and no, I won’t post only pics of her, but I can’t help it if my recent photo shoots have been when she’s here! ^_^;;; )

More pics on flickr — http://www.flickr.com/photos/docstampede/

Five min break.

I soooooo dare you to open the door and scream “WHOOOOHOOOO LOLCOPTER!!!!”

Go ahead!  I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU!

(I promise, I’m done.  This makes it seven.  Ha!  Day 8 will return you to the regularly scheduled broo-ha-ha.)