Captains Log. Nov 3. Somewhere in the Universe! Dear Fans, One and All. Thank you for all your wonderful posts! Very quickly to answer any posts re HBO. Still nothing from where I am sitting in my control centre, resounding silence from any agents, so that means that it is still being written perhaps. Re NZ DVD, Country GP, alas it will never be played unfortunately due to the confusion of royalty payments as some of the cast have moved on upstairs and this creates massive headaches for accounting departments. It should be played however, because it is one of the best drama series that was ever created in NZ and as a part of great NZ Television history, be aired for those reasons. Wolfhound...awesome! Photography. I will be sending Jean some images I have been collating for my website, which is wayyyy behind my launching date, but these things take time and I am tweaking images in preparation for this, so you can all have a sneak peak. Am thinking I may have to resize them for Facebook, but there is nothing like being able to see a full image sized to a monitor, these being 1200x on the Long Side. The launch date is hopefully a fortnight away...! I am focusing on Portraiture and Weddings, but will include an On the Road Again section which will have my photos from Dragoncon! I recently gave myself a project shooting a luncheon event with 2x of Sydneys most respected celebrity chefs and came away with shots I am happy with. For gear heads, I used 2x cameras, a Fujfilm X-Pro 1 with 35mm f1.4 and my Cannon 5 D Mk 11 with a Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 lens. Flash, 1x canon 600 EX RT with Gary Fong collapsible Light Sphere and a LargeRogue Flash Bender. My challenge was to limit myself with as little gear as possible and be as mobile as possible. The day was a perfect sunny day, but this meant to huge lighting extremes as the temperature was hitting 30 degrees and upwards! I am still working towards getting that elusive 70-200 Canon f2.8! There is a beauty in having a long lens. The Tamron 28-75 is a very good lens, a lot cheaper than the branded lenses, but for really great shots where you cant physically be closer or dont really want to be, than the 70-200 is the go-to-lens! Tamron has a 70-200 but from all the research I have done, everything works fine until you see the vignetting which lets it down. I have also being doing some pro bono work for an organisation called YoungCare, which I was asked to cover a high powered Womens Lunch at the top of Westfield Towers in Sydney recently. This my way of giving back and this is also a section I will have on my site called Giving Back. Last week I had the privilege of taking some photos of a young dad who had a stroke at the age of 33, has been bedridden for 4x years and Youngcare asked if I was able to cover that, taking some shots of he, his young son and family. I have permission to put these shots up as well, so I am very happy about that and will include a link to their website. Well, I think that will do for now. Having just moved to a new neighbourhood, of course being Halloween, everyone stopping by the house were asking why the decorations werent up to scratch from last year!!!! So I am now designing in my head next years front of house decorations! Maybe a couple of graves in the front under the tree, a life-size Mummy in the yard complete with scary music! Till then, fellow Intergalactic Travelers! Yours Truly, Cranky Captain! x
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:56:13 +0000
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