What's up?

Well, asking myself that question.

A lot is going on lately. My fiance is very busy preparing for the wedding next year. There is a lot to do and I am glad that women have their own sense when it comes to that because I would probably just start making calls in regards to reception and stuff uh maybe a month before. Oh well, she is planning and once in a while she actually has something for me to do.

Next to that, we are considering moving - closer to Atlanta and also away from where we are now as it just is not that good of a neighborhood anymore. I hope everything turns out as I hope - it is definitely a lot to deal with these days.

I am still getting to know my new Camera (40D) but I think I got most new functions down. Next week Tuesday I will be going to an evening Seminar called the Digital Photography Edge, which has some presentations on Advanced Speedlite Techniques, Cinematic Composition etc. I am sure to write more once I attended.

I think I never got to tell about the Digital 102 class I attended which is now over for well over a week.
Well, the last class was quite interesting as we had a Staff Photographer (Photo Journalist) from the Atlanta Journal Constitution critiquing our photos we brought for the final review. I think I did quite well and also won best in class photo with the image below. Well it got me a book - not the point but it is nice to know something I did was liked. :)
I wish there were some more classes, mainly to Network with other people but I guess we just have to Network ourselves through Flickr groups or so.

Dress-Hunt

This Saturday I went with my fiance to look at dresses, well she looked, I drove but it gave me some time to "play" with my new camera. Got a couple nice shots out and hope there are more to come from my 40D.

As I was not "allowed" to enter the stores with her I strived through the parking lots and shot stuff that was just around.

The image below was generated by 5 HDR shots and then used ToneMapper from hdrsoft.com to alter it a bit. I know it might look a little surreal but I like the effect; surely not for every photo but it has a nice tone to it.

This week I will hopefully get quite a few more photos taken for the final review of my photo class....

Sister gone and other stuff

My sister is gone now after a week of visiting me from Hamburg. We had good times and I think she enjoyed her visit as well. As she still has a few more days to relax, it is back to work for me. Must be nice to have ~25 days of vacation a year.

Now it's another 1.5 month or so and my parents will be back here. This time both of them together....

Oh as a follow up to a previous post, there are supposedly installers now that will let me install Writer etc on my 64bit box at home....
Remind:

 

Errr what else. Yeah. Halo3 still not beaten. Have to do one level at a time due to time constraints. I am sure most 13 year olds are already officers in the game while I am still working on the campaign but so be it.

Later.