New Tunnelvision Gig

19th December @ Bizzo's

We are looking for bands for that night!

Alive and twitching

After the last post, I've realised that it has been almost 12 months exactly since I posted that "I am alive and kicking". A hell of a a lot of things have happened during that period; holidays, gigs, parties. Rather than talk about it , just checkout some photos.

http://picasaweb.google.com/jp.scarface

Testing the google gadget

Well I am certainly sold on the 'browser as an OS'. Most of my time seems to be spent in iGoogle (the new layout is more efficient too), with the additional speed of Chome, I declare I am a Google fanboy.

Still Alive and Kicking...

Despite the 2 month hiatus, I will still continue to update - eventually.

Some factors that have caused this delay is: laziness, needing to reformat and at the moment my music is more important (bass player for 2 bands). I haven't even processed my photos from NZ!

If anyone is in Sydney, come and see Tunnelvision (me) play the Mandarin Club in Pitt St.

Later...

Double Up

2 Albums for the price of one tonight. First up is the Teppanyaki party. Not much to report other than the shots without the flash weren't really usable and it didn't help I got drunk towards the end! - http://picasaweb.google.com.au/jp.scarface/LaurenS24thBirthday The auto white balance seem to go okay in the restaurant. Their also seemed to be a lot of reflection from the flash (shiny metal everywhere). Oh and it was good fun too...

Second album is for Cristian Walls' 1st birthday party from last Saturday. I didn't think it would be that hard to photograph kids (by photograph I mean a memorable shots or poses). It was made even harder with the lack of space - http://picasaweb.google.com.au/jp.scarface/CristianS1stBirthday. I tried to change my perspective during the afternoon, which got most of the lollipop shots. I almost got an awesome shot of two kids separated by a glass door but the girl facing the camera was out of focus. Damn! Better luck next time...

Taronga Zoo

I’d like to make up for my absence (re: laziness). A web album of our trip to Taronga Zoo - http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jp.scarface/ZooTrip - I managed to squeeze 488 shots that day before the camera died + I used the flash in about 30 of those 488. Pretty good battery life considering I took about 200 the night before!

The ones I have uploaded haven’t really been edited much which is also a plus. Most have been brightened a bit and/or cropped, with a couple sharpened.

I only noticed after the reptiles’ area that the camera was on Centre Weighted metering. I can’t really tell the difference between that and matrix – in these shots anyway so I didn’t really care. I am also quite happy with the AWB. After editing the photos in Picasa I was more inclined to not change the white balance as the camera gives a warm inviting tone as opposed to the cold tone Picasa was giving when using the auto adjusts. My preference anyways…

I gave the camera a good workout during the weekend and it surpassed my expectations. It bodes well for the trip to NZ, although I would still like to get another battery just in case.

I’ll also upload Friday nights (Loz’s birthday party at Tepenyaki) photos when I get time as there were some good action shots.

Amber River

Sorry about the last update, it was posted late and rushed, hence the rambling…

The idea was to show the different depth of fields with different f/stops - I’m hoping the images are in the right order. The blogger composition area is too small trying to arrange 5-6 images in a column.

There was no real conscious decision to arrange the cans that way (it’s just the usual sight that can be seen on my desk). Just to note: George is the guy on the can - the beer mascot, in reference to the last post.

I’ll try to do add a new post tonight – see what happens.