my eye hurts.

so i've been following the technique listed here as a practice for manual focus. the good news is, i've improved a lot and even at f1.4, i'm getting an increasingly good keeper rate.

the bad news is, my eye hurts right now. i should probably stop for the night.

anyways, i have a better example of this lens's sharpness wide open. again, it's with my mom, this time i used flash so there's no hand shake and whatnot, just pure, unadulterated sharp lens awesomeness:

original shot:

unsharpened 100% crop:

pretty damn good for f1.4, and yknow what, not even just "for a f1.4", but in absolute terms, i'm quite happy with this sharpness. 

not so happy with staring at my mom's face as it gets creepier the more i look at it.

oh god.

ohgodohgodohgod im scared.

see the problem with being scared of this pic is i can't go mommyyyy. i guess that's a good thing. this pic gives me balls. oh god my mom gives me balls. that's gross. though in a literal sense somewhat true.

i'm disgusting and scaring myself now; i'll cut that shit out now.

also, after this shot was taken, my mom proceeded to tackle me and knock over my chair, almost causing me to break my neck. love you too. 

so i also has pics of a photowalk i went on with my dad from sunday (?) but i've been too lazy to upload em. probably do it tomorrow. in the meanwhile, here's some story that his wife told me while we were having lunch:

a filipino guy (at least i think that's what she said?) liked a chinese chick. she didn't like him back. he commit suicide.

that's literally what she said, nothing more nothing less. if anything was ever worth a cool story bro....LOL. i mean it's sad and all, but it was vague enough for me to not care and worded simply enough for it to be funny in some stupid way.

man, i am probably going straight to hell. do they have dungeons there? 

anyways.