Friday, August 03, 2007

for some reason I have a lot of time, prob related that every try to restore my database takes 4 hours, so I decided to grab my new toy and try to create some dramatic pictures on the cemetry near by.

90 minutes later i figured that the D80 is pretty difficult to use and I will take a while till I can use the metering on the camera. So far I have no way to predict the outcome, which kinda sucks. Also the noise is pretty damn bad over iso 400. I got 3 keepers out of 100 shots, which is pretty sad...

The best shot was the picture to the left. Which I don't know if I'm happy with it or not.

I also got an email from paypal that they are very sorry and will reimburse me for my trouble. Seems like we are making progress with this problem. I'm still waiting for feedback from the victoria insurance and my attempt to cancel the policy.


So what else,

i spent some time with my neighbors, or in other words tyler and I played a car racing game and kim was going nuts with my camera.

addicted to coffee,

since 20 hours I'm sitting here and trying to fix the database. It sadly lost alot of data after a bug in my software occured and for some reasons oracle does not like the thing i want;

please restore the backup from tuesday night...

nope its not happening...

To the left, I taking a break and playing with the D80 and filtered flashs, quite nice for out of camera with minor adjustments.

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the smile of this little fellow represnts my current look,

my D80 arrived and I'm very happy that I got it instead of the D200. I really can use all functions over buttons and the integrated wireless commander mode is just wonderful. Not I just need to find a way to sync my Vivitar with it

Now I just need to learn how to use it.


...btw the picture needs a second a flash on the other side to highlight the nose shadow. But a friend of mine got my second flash so not much I could do.

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