The O-Talk Podcast

Well, I have been working for the last few months as a professional photographer. It has been an interesting ride and I want to share some of the trues that people don't know about. Warning: These are my own personal experiences and it might be different for others.

More than a year and half ago, I started saving for a new DSLR camera. It was a long and grueling task that seemed impossible but doing a little saving here and there, I made it. I finally had the money to buy a new Canon T3/1100D, then the holiday season came and it was sold out every where and if they had it in stock, they would raise the price. I waited once more and when the moment seemed right, I order it. Now I have in my hand, the new DSLR camera that I've desired for so long.

The Canon T3 is a pretty good camera if you're on a budget. The one complaint I have about it feels fragile because of the plastic body. I'm pretty use to using at work a both the Canon 60D and Canon 1Ds-Mark III, but I can say that this Camera is great.

As for the kit lens, it is neither good or bad, just okay at best. I do not like that all plastic and to be honest, I'll never use it again after I build up a decent collection of lenses.

Battery that runs on happiness and unicorn blood.

Tons of useless cables, CDs, and papers that I'll never touch.

Here is a test shot. The detail seen on Wall-E is great.

The brand new top of the line Canon DSLR is here, it's the 1D X. In this post, I linked several articles that take an in-depth look at the 1D X.

I normally don't do street photography because I own a car and I drive everywhere I go. Since I got out early of jury duty, I decided to photography everything I saw on my way back to my car. It was actually fun and I'm planning to do it again.

This is me being pretentious.

For sometime, I have been looking for website that I could host my online photography portfolio. Most of these sites are pretty expensive with monthly fees that at the time, I couldn't afford to pay. Then one day while browsing PetaPixel, I found an article talking about the growth of 500 PX. This is an amazing website.

While I was dusting my computer and installing a rain gutter to hold up all the cables around my desk, I got inspired to photography it..

For that last month, I have been wanting to photograph the stars. The thing is, it has been raining every single night. While walking my dog, I saw how amazing the evening sky. I ran back home while carrying my little dog, she's old and she cannot run a long distance. I grabbed my camera and started taking pictures of the beautiful evening sky.

This experience teaches me a lesson, carry a camera at all times. One does not know when moments like these will appear, once they are gone, they are gone forever.

Moments like these make me forget my problems and appreciate all the good things in life.

It's the return of Weekly Picture. Now that I'm on vacation, I have more time to take pictures and focus on my photography. For those who don't know what this is all about, these posts are like a weekly journal for me that I share to my readers. I also share some experimental photography techniques that I'm trying out. by the way, the first picture in this post does not mean anything. It was added to take up some space.

After 2 years, I finally got new glasses. I like these frames because they are more mature looking than the last pair I had.

Do you see this beautiful mouse pad of Kanade from Angel Beats!? Do you want to buy one just like this? Well, don't because it's a piece of sh*t. I recently got this crappy mouse pad expecting it to be awesome. First of all, it does not have a foam or rubber grip, so it ends up slicing around my desk. Second of all, its nothing but a sheet of glossy plastic, so if you have an optical/laser mouse, it wont work. To make it worse, the thing curled up in less than 2 days. If you ever plan to buy a mouse pad from Broccoli Company, stay away from them.

I'm done buying cans of compressed air for dusting. They can ruin electronics such as cameras if the freon comes out, the bittering agent is horrible if it gets on your hands, and you end up wasting a lot of money buying them. So, I ended up getting a Giottos Air blaster. It works amazing and you can get some exercise from it too.

Recently, Gamestop had a "buy two used games, get the third free" sale. I ended up buying New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Pangya gold for the PSP, and WTF: Work Time Fun for the PSP.

While driving back from Gamestop, I got inspired to take some pictures on the side of the road. This photography style is known as lomography.I currently don't own a lomo camera or a camera that has it as a preset, however, I found a Photoshop tutorial for it.

I really like how the second picture came out.

Recently, I started getting more serious with my photography. I've been working on my portfolio and I noticed that my current camera has reached its limit. It still works but its not good for creating a portfolio. In the next few months, I'm buying brand new gear.

While browsing Life Hacker, I came across this interesting article on how studying an egg came make a person a better photographer. Before you run off to grab an egg and stare at it for countless hours, this is all about lighting.

You're going to need two things for this, an egg(duh) and a small flashlight. Place the egg on one spot and do not move it. Then take five pictures of the egg with the flashlight pointing at different angles. Also, do this in a dark room with little to no light source. This teaches you how to manipulate light and understanding it. As you can see below, the size on the egg looks different in each picture but it was never moved. If you don't understand this concept, you should trying out yourself for better understanding.







By the way, it's my birthday.

Hey look, Weekly Pictures is back. The reason why it happened was a combination of two things: being lazy and being really lazy. Yeah, I suck. Now that I have the motivation again, here's the comeback post of Weekly Pictures.

I started watching Brighter that the Dawning Blue thanks to the Spring Cleaning Anime Challenge. I watched the first half of the show so far and I'm enjoying, I will be doing a review of it when I'm done. The next show that I will be watching will be Project A-ko and Project A-ko VS.

I hate dusting my figures. My reason behind it is that it takes me four to five hours just to dust them and they're still filthy. I finally snapped and took all of my figures into the show and washed them. It took me an hour get them clean, 30 minutes of washing and 30 minutes of air drying. This method is so much faster and I'm glad that it works.

I gained four pounds during my vacation, I feel pretty crappy about it. I started working out again by using P90X Cardio DVD. I have been trying to run everyday as well. I'm being very careful not to injure my right knee.

Lately, I've been catching up on video games that I need to beat. Most of the games that I'm currently playing are on the Wii and PSP. The one game that I'm mostly focusing on is No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, it's a fun game but I had a problem with it recently. What happened was that I was about to beat a boss and the game glitched. I haven't played since that happened, I should get the game resurfaced. I'm still playing a ton of Team Fortress 2 and enjoying the replay function.