I never have time

Lately, it seems like I never have the time to post in my blog. With school, and taking and editing pictures, I really have no time and it's quite frustrating. I'll keep you guys up to date with separate posts about the pictures I have taken so far.

First things first, I bought myself a brand new lens! The Nikkor 50 1.4 G. While it was expensive, the bokeh on this thing is just insane, and the night capture is crazy, which is why it's worth every last penny.

My roommate volunteered himself to be my first subject to see what this lens was capable of. I chose Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona for the location of the shoot. The neon lights and fancy restaurants were the perfect opportunity to show some really nice, silky bokeh.

I am extremely happy with these results. Nothing was staged. It was basically point, shoot, and hope for the best.

One thing I really noticed about the lens, was the medium focus time. This really bothered me. The fact that it is kind of tricky to really get the subject with the lens set on 1.4, but when it's spot on the results are spectacular!

Edited & Revised By Kelly Kindall.

SPOcom Adventure

So I head about this show called "SPOcom" at the Eibach Honda meet a while back. I didn't think much of it, but I started seeing what cars were going, it definitely caught my interest. My friend, Han from Intense Power had invited me out to go and of course I was all for it. Either way I love California and am always looking for an excuse to go.
It was held at the Long Beach Convention Center, an amazing place. We get there and just see tons of GTR's in the parking garage and I'm thinking to myself, this shows gotta be good. Me and Kyle get inside and first thing I notice is the lighting, and how great it was. I was planning to shoot bounce flash with a diffuser on my SB900. But looking at the results with my ridiculous 10 dollar sigma lens, it wasn't too great. The temperature was going NUTS, the background was just yellow and look horribly unprofessional. So I decided, hey might as well turn up the ISO, that's what i bought the camera for, and what do you know, worked out perfectly. The noise was quite acceptable for that lens seeing as its pretty much worthless, but with the 70-200, I was getting amazing results. I was kinda disappointed in myself for not getting next day shipping on my 50 1.4, It would have been a perfect lens for this event. I kinda laughed to myself for all the people shooting flash in such a giant building with no celling. I had peeked over the shoulders of a couple "pros" aka, people with stupid amount of gear, and their results were horrible, their backgrounds were dark looking and just doesn't look like what a 3000 dollar camera should be producing. But I really I wanted to see some photos with those really fancy Gary Fong LightSphere II. If you got a link post it!

But overall, I'm quite satisfied with the results. I love high ISO pictures, something about the coloring really strikes me. Well thanks for looking and I'll have more pics up next week!

All the pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/siritho/

And a big thanks too...

Stancenation for the feature!