Archive for June, 2008

Last week a hopeful image of the so called “Nikon D700” was “leaked” and the news spread like wildfire amongst photography sites, forums and personal blogs, mine included of course. This was a picture that was posted up on Engadget on the 25th of June. It looked really real and this is something that we might have predicted or imagine that a smaller full frame sensor Nikon camera would look like (to rival Canon’s 5D of course).

6 25 08 d700 D700 rumour was a fake???

That was posted on the 25th of June. It took only 2 whole days before the real news was unearthed. Yup, suspicions were true, it was just a photoshopped D300. I guess this is one of the banes of Photoshop! Grrrr.

d700 debunk shot with orig 2 D700 rumour was a fake???

The real image was actually up on Flickr over here. Here is the image of the original shot which was actually a Nikon D300 all the while. And no, it wasn’t my D300 that I shot!

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Like the title says in the Flickr image, “Awwww….no D700 after all“.

I had my hopes up really high, only a couple of hours more before I can call this so called rumour that Nikon will make an announcement on the 30th of June a true blown rumour. Anyway I am sure a lot of people are still expecting an announcement from Nikon soon, whether it may be the D700 or the D90 or the D3x, who knows what Nikon has in store but for sure we would find out something by September.

My fingers are still crossed though. :P

I am very excited and pleased to announce two awesome looking websites with super cool graphics and so many things which isn’t in my technical vocabulary! Ok, enough of that, let me introduce to you two new and recently launched websites, Integricity Visuals and Wedding Story.

What makes these websites special? Well if you did check out my previous post on a wedding I shot, perhaps upon closer inspection of the watermark I created might give a sort of clue to all :)

Ok, that was a lame attempt to hide the fact that I am really excited to be part of the team shooting weddings and events. It is an honour to be able to work with such skilled and artistic people and at the same time, learn from them on the way. Being a part of this team is a great challenge for me as I try my best to not only improve my work and quality but to build more bridges and relationships with the people I work with.

Do check out Integricity Visuals website here to see some of the video and photo portfolios and the range of services offered. Integricity Visuals is actually owned by Integricity Corporation which is the parent company.

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Not to forget, Wedding Story as well and the blog over here as well.

Wedding Story is a brand by Integricity Visuals that caters for the tender and passionate moments shared between couples as they waltz down the aisle.

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The cool part about this website is that you can view both videos and photos online. Do check out the website for anything related to weddings and engagements.

Alright its back to the rat race for me, so much to do and so little time to complete it. Can’t wait for the wedding this weekend where it will be my first time in a long while where I am not shooting the wedding and where I am also one of the groomsmen for the first time.

Until then, I am already late for the wedding rehearsal!

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Was over Jenny’s and Zach’s blog and I decided that I wanted to take this questionnaire as well and perhaps reveal a little bit something more about myself.

1. Four jobs/career aspirations I have had:

  • Process engineer (at Motorola during my engineering internship days)
  • R&D Engineer (at JVC designing video camcorders)
  • SAP Consultant (on the technical side of things which is rather boring for some people :P )
  • Freelance photographer (yay! I love to shoot weddings!)

* Sounds like I have very boring jobs beforehand and yes, they were boring

2. Four things I wish I had done earlier:

  • Learned photography earlier so I could have taken more photos during my days in the UK/Europe area
  • Took exams for my guitar classes
  • Taken a motorbike license
  • Studied economics and finance

3. Four places I have been (listing my favourite places):

  • Czech Republic
  • England
  • Australia
  • Phuket, Thailand

4. Four countries I would like to visit :

  • New York, USA
  • South Africa
  • Brazil
  • New Zealand

* If ever I get to go to these countries, I would have been to all of the continents in the world!

5. Four of my favorite dishes/snacks:

  • Chicken rice
  • Pizza (not the rubbish we get from Domino’s or Pizza Hut)
  • Carbonara Pasta
  • Roasted pork knuckles

6. Four of fav. desserts :

  • McDonald’s Banana pie
  • Banana chocolate smoothies
  • Peanut butter smoothies
  • Chocolate strawberry ice-cream

7. Four sites I visit daily:

  • Gmail
  • Facebook
  • Blogs (photographers and friends mostly)
  • TheStar.com.my

p.s. I actually visit a lot of sites, so much that I rely on Foxmarks for all my URL bookmarking needs. I have two accounts, one for work and for personal. Both have different sets of URLs :D

8. Four software applications I cannot live without:

  • Firefox 3 (daily surfing and email)
  • Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (mainly for my photo editing)
  • µTorrent (for all my *ahem* *ahem* needs)
  • Microsoft Excel (mainly for work and church stuff)

9. Four favourite drinks

  • Diet coke/Coke Light
  • Ice Lemon Tea
  • White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks
  • Czech beer

10. Four things you may not know about me:

  • I am a very shy person! (At work I am a totally different person though, confident enough to speak to a crowd of 100 and above at meetings with no problems but when meeting new people, a little shy sometimes)
  • I like to read Archie comics and Asterix comics (I got all of the Asterix comic collection and about 120+ Archie comic books. GIve me a buzz if you want to borrow some of them)
  • I still play the guitar, bass and a teeeny bit of drums (Although I sold my electric guitar to fund for my Nikon D200, I still have my acoustic guitar at home to play once in a while)
  • I am in need of a confidence boost most of the time (I am usually very worried and nervous before any of my photography assignment)

So for all of those who are reading this post, I am tagging you to blog about yourself as well. Don’t forget to link back to my site as well :)

“The Best Firefox Yet” screams the title on the page of Mozilla’s latest offering to their web browser, Firefox 3. With features such as 15,000 improvements and also faster surfing, everyone is of course interested in finding out just how fast the improvements are and what are the newer features.

Firefox 3

Being available for download a week ago, I decided to put hold on this blog post about Firefox 3 until I have tried it for a while before writing this post.

To me, its just another browser which I do hope that it is more reliable and more secure as I do plenty of online activities such as buying cinema tickets online as well as my personal banking activities. Although I haven’t really had the time to test them out, there are a lot of new tips and tricks with this new version of the browser.

At the mean time, I haven’t really noticed much improvement in terms of sites loading because of my erratic internet connection back home where sometimes its blazing fast and sometimes its just crawling. Also I can’t really test it out at work as the connection speeds here are very fast and its not easy to just perform some tests (thought I would like but I can’t install anything on my work laptop).

The one thing which I thought was an improvement is that the fact the “Back” button is bigger, hence I can easily press back faster. Other than that, the one thing I like about the new browser is that when I sort my bookmarks by name, it actually groups RSS links and normal links separately. Previously I would have a folder in my bookmark with all the RSS links and some random links here and there. Whenever I did a sort by name on that folder, it just sorts everything by name. Now it separates them which is better!

firefox3 271x300 "The Best Firefox Yet"

Anyway, if you are already a Firefox user, this upgrade will be worthwhile. Else if you are still using Safari on a Mac, there are reports that Java still loads faster on Safari as compared to Firefox 3. The article goes on to say that if you are already comfortable with Safari, maybe it might not be a push to migrate over to Firefox.

p.s. I just installed Firefox 3 on all my PC’s at home lest for one more.

“The Best Firefox Yet” screams the title on the page of Mozilla’s latest offering to their web browser, Firefox 3. With features such as 15,000 improvements and also faster surfing, everyone is of course interested in finding out just how fast the improvements are and what are the newer features.

Firefox 3

Being available for download a week ago, I decided to put hold on this blog post about Firefox 3 until I have tried it for a while before writing this post.

To me, its just another browser which I do hope that it is more reliable and more secure as I do plenty of online activities such as buying cinema tickets online as well as my personal banking activities. Although I haven’t really had the time to test them out, there are a lot of new tips and tricks with this new version of the browser.

At the mean time, I haven’t really noticed much improvement in terms of sites loading because of my erratic internet connection back home where sometimes its blazing fast and sometimes its just crawling. Also I can’t really test it out at work as the connection speeds here are very fast and its not easy to just perform some tests (thought I would like but I can’t install anything on my work laptop).

The one thing which I thought was an improvement is that the fact the “Back” button is bigger, hence I can easily press back faster. Other than that, the one thing I like about the new browser is that when I sort my bookmarks by name, it actually groups RSS links and normal links separately. Previously I would have a folder in my bookmark with all the RSS links and some random links here and there. Whenever I did a sort by name on that folder, it just sorts everything by name. Now it separates them which is better!

firefox3 271x300 The Best Firefox Yet

Anyway, if you are already a Firefox user, this upgrade will be worthwhile. Else if you are still using Safari on a Mac, there are reports that Java still loads faster on Safari as compared to Firefox 3. The article goes on to say that if you are already comfortable with Safari, maybe it might not be a push to migrate over to Firefox.

p.s. I just installed Firefox 3 on all my PC’s at home lest for one more.

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