Last saturday was a lot of fun.. and headaches.. My first photoshoot that didn’t take place at my home in my little makeshift studio. The set was Hope Gardens and i think i did pretty well. The model was such a sweetheart. She was patient with me. and didn’t mind doing what i told / asked her to. as a result i got some greaet images. I only posted 2 for the world to see.

I recently purchased some more photography equipment from my online sources. I got a backdrop support system which when fully extended cant fit in my room at all. A softbox a new eyecup and a filter kit. Also I got a 8 card capacity memory card case from my sister (thanks sis). Currrently I just have a fwe more things left to acquire

1. canon 70-200 F2.8 IS L or  SIGMA  70-200 F2.8 DG APO MA
2. Tripod [ impact tripod / 3 way pan head ]
3. bogen manfrotto monopod
4. SEEMLESS BACKGROUND PAPER
5. studio strobes
6. FLASH STAND

those 6 items are quite costly but I do intend to acquire them. The photostudio is looking quite nicely so far.. There’s an extra room in my house i was contemplating using but.. I’m not so sure how well that’ll go.

My past two notebooks have been Dells.. moving from a compaq evo n115 then I moved to a hp nx9005 business model laptop to a dell inspiron 6000 then after that i got a inspiron 6400 which is what I’m using now. However as of today I’ll be moving back to the hp camp with the dv6000 :). I’ve been watching this laptop for months and finally I got it.. It just felt right in my lap too i overheard ma bredrin saying how much u think i could sell a hp dv6000 for and i was like where is it.. told him i’ld give him 50 he’s like okay.. i’m like sold nigga bring dat shit.. and now its in my room.. * i need a charger though *.

The system is a real beast too. built for multimedia. has a remote has built in web cam dual speakers and dual headphone jacks (so u can share with a friend :D)

This weekend was super busy. The highlight of the entire weekend for me was the emerge expo which took place on Saturday at the Hilton hotel ballroom. Quite a few companies were present. The Jamaica Observer, Evideo, Fenntech just to name a few. I was clearly there for events.in876.com . The event was open to the public at 12:00pm around that time there was some freakish ninja rain that just came out of no where like hurricane force stuff. As a result we were all worried about the turn out but that became non existent in about an hour or so (the worrying), as we were too busy explaining to people the nature of the product (events.in87.com) the benefits and the snazzy new features of our version 2.0 (throws digital confetti in the air). Take a look at the features page and see how beefed up the system has become. Events.in876.com clearly means business keep an eye out for them in the media. The site has been completely re vamped and truely delivers the content and showcases features the way we originally had intended.

Among the other companies that were there i think i liked the Fenntech booth the most. They had some big ass tv’s yow and when i say the resolution on those things were pimping i make no joke or overstatements it was sharper than my laptop monitor.. now think about that sharpness at i dunno the 40inch range. Sweet and guess what they didn’t have 1. There was 1 attached to a laptop and the other to a gaming rig. Their booth got a lot of user interest (video games) and tech heads. There were performances by cezar, and Lenya and the entertainment / hosting was handled by Elva (man that woman is crazy.. in a good way though). There were prizes an give aways from quite a few company. an acquaintance (just met her that day, she’s a friend of a friend) won digicel’s blackberry pearl (the Wi-fi version). It was a good event though. really good. The promoters who held it I’m sure saw a few flaws and I’m sure they’ll get it proper the next time around

For photos view my events.in876.com profile

Before i start let me first say

If anybody steals these images. I bringing the law still. They are copyrighted, and owned by ME. if you wish to use them for anything at all, publication be it web or print. Contact me and make a request.
On sunday the 30th of march I hauled my ass out of bed and hit the streets at 11:00am with the intention of covering the jamaica carnival and bacchanal road march for 2008. I missed the bacchanal people at their start point. I had intended to leave ith them as i was based in mona from saturday night. I high tailed it to worthington avenue in new kingston and waited from 11:30 to about 2pm when the bacchanal group made their way from eden gardens around the bend onto trafalgar road. the shooting then began. I got some really great images, One thing i know for sure is i found the sweet spot with the 2 lens’s i mainly used. I worked the crowed from there on sstraight to the intersection at YMCA. on arriving there i had totalled my 2 gig cf card. (was shooting in raw format). I swapped to my backup 1 gig and then headed to half way tree road with the intention off grabbing some  shots of the Jamaica Carnival march.

One thing i can say for certain the Jamaica carnival gets a zero the bacchanal march gets a 10. The jamaica carnival group was extremely boring. I shot them as they passed (was in the streets with them just like i did with the bacchanal group) and I got no energy from them at all, most those images i just parked.

After they jamaicca carnival group passed i hightailed it to york pharmacy bought 2 bottles of water and finish them in like 30 seconds (i’ve been running off a king sized snickers from 11 in the morning). I decided there that I might as well head back to mona. i headed to the new buspark wehre they had a music setup and a huge crowed there. then shortly after i heard the chants of carnival revellers. it was the bacchanal group again *YAY*. I geared up once again and got in the streets with em and started shooting once again. By this time i had to switch from raw files to medium format jpgs. I rolled with the bacchanal grup from the halfway tree buspark all the way back into new kingston and down knutsford boulevard. making my final stand in the isle inthe middle of the road (infront of burger king). after the crowd decipated and i got a shot of a bad ass hot rod car I called it a day and headed back to mona.

For this day my gear consisted of my Rebel XT, sigma 70 - 300mm telephoto lens, 50mm canon f/1.8 and my trusty could not do it without it opteka battery grip which allowed me to shoot all day with out the sightest battery problem :)  and now for what you all have been waiting to see. The images.

BTW if anybody steals these images. I bringing the law still. They are copyrighted, and owned by ME. if you wish to use them for anything at all, publication be it web or print. Contact me and make a request.

Yeah. Photography is time consuming, takes alot of research but it sure is fun. as of lately i think i’ve found some kind of balance in my life. Spend time with a lady friend, work, pereson web development and photography Everything is going on fine non of them suffers.. Well I do from time to time (tired as hell at times).  But I’m really happy with how everything is pulling together gotta give God some thanks yknow.

Here’s a photo i took of my gear the other day (some things are missing). It made me ralize that I really need to start pulling some serious ROI on this photography thing.

This shows how much of a photo junkie I am

But thats all you guys get here, I post daily at my photoblog photoja.net. We have a project going on over there called the 365 photoproject. where we gotta compose 1 shot a day to post. Going well so far. I have’t put up my shot for yesterday though So sorry to dissapoint those who check daily.

Re  personal web development everything is going fine no problems or complaints. Re work Things are fine there as well.

Oh big tings instore for the linux users ubuntu hardy herron is about to drop we got 30+ days to go. The timer is on my blog side bar. so i hve 30 days to clean up my system this time i think i’m gonna go with a fresh install instead of an upgrade like i always ddo. I’ve been upgrading my ubuntu book for about 3 years now. and it still runs fairly decent.. just the other day i realize it start get slugish.

This weekend I pretty much plan to keep offline. Tomorrow i should be picking up my battery grip and 2 extra batteries for my Rebel XT. Then I should heading up to mona to chill with the friends for a bit before heading home. On saturday There’s a child abortion march. I”m gonna be rolling with those people for the photography purposes Then i’m gonna cut from there and do a lil expidition (haven’t fully planned out where as yet just wanna push my camera batteries to the limit to see how long 3 batteries will last). Sunday is a movie or two with my movie partner in crime / girl next door chick. After that its pretty much prepare for work watch some anime or something and the weekend is over.

Oh here’s a little idle / geeky thing i did today

and finally I leave you with a macro Shot i took last night

I had planned to use this as my day 4 shot for the 365 photo project I’m doing over at photoja.net but i took it about 1hr before midnight so its not truely my day 4 shot (I’ve yet to compose it).

Regarding a post i made the other day on animesynergy to the introduction of the future film The dark knight staring christian bale of equilibrium as batman and heath ledger of no not the movie about mountains (10 things i hate about you) as joker. Now i truely believe what i said is gonna happen this movie will probably be held over as I think people gonna flock it because of the death of the young actor. The box office ratings not gonna make no sense. I mean the wichowsky brothers could have secretely been working on matrix 4 5 and 6 for release the same weekend as the dark knight they will just not outsell. Emotions is a funny thing isnt it. Now heath’s character is basically a 2008 gothic revamp of the old joker. Making himn sick and sadistic yeah, So it could be assumed that he’ll be doing some pretty mean things. And knowthing that I still know that there’s gonna be some girls in the theater crying their eyes out when they see him…

Emotions are a hell of a thing. More so its peoples reaction to people that they really don’t know.

I plan to watch the flick but a dead star or not it better be good cause if it isn’t i’m gonna be pissed and wish i hadn’t spent my money. I guess Batman finally had his way with the joker. Bad batman.