coming and going

wednesday: photoshoot with kathy and kelsey and leslie! :D it was pretty fun shit. they brought multiple outfits, we went tooooooo....the railway tracks near marine dr canada line stop, and then to steveston. it was fun, and good for experience as a portrait photographer i guess. though i didn't really do much directing...a bit, i guess. photographically speaking, well...i was planning on going all out with it - i had my DIY beauty dish, my flash at the ready. put on an ND filter, tried a shot with the flash, didn't see appreciable effect, said fuck it from then on ^___^ and just went with the plentiful available light.

direct, middle-of-the-day summer sun = pretty harsh, but overall i think i did pretty damn well with regards to that.

anyways, here are my favorites:

loving them. i'm pretty excited to do more of this type of shoot, cause i was really quite pleased with my results here.

now to the exciting news...

the first lens i ever bought, my d-fa 100mm f2.8 wr macro, has been sold.

and on the way to me now, is.......an FA 77mm f1.8 Limited. shitbrix am i excited for that to arrive. if it's anything like the 43, and lots of people think it's superior, then it'll be a damn good lens to have. just on paper,  i get a more versatile length than with the 100, in a more compact package, and also over a full stop faster - 2.8 vs 1.8 is pretty hefty. if i had that at the gala i wouldn't have ever had to hit iso 10k, probably.

speaking of which, damn is it hard to find gigs to shoot at in vancouver! i've emailed nearly a dozen craigslist ads and maybe two have replied, both of them turning me down. pretty tough shit. but they can't keep me out forever eh? ;D

anyways, yeah. bit of an uninspired post, this. i should really stop procrastinating these (which i've claimed to do each post in the past few weeks), i feel so much more spirited about each topic when it's just happened. meh.

NEW LENS!!!! :DD