Shelter Me (20120114)

Shelter Me is an event that happens every year, A free event with all the money going to Shelter, a Charity to help home the home-less people and last year raised over £500.00

But (yes I am using the BUT word) is was not such a good night for me, I had a really long day before hand and was talked into going by a friend. A friend that did not turn up to the event so I was there all by myself.

I was looking forward to going and using my new camera but my new flash had not turned up yet so I had to use my old camera (Sony A300). After using my Canon for the last 2 months, Saying that I had to get used to my old set-up was an under statement!

So with the photography not going the way that I liked, friends not showing up and to add even more to the bed vibes... I got a massive headache that took 3 days to go away!

Anyways, My gallerys are live both on the site and DSI so check them out if you wish but they are not my best!

D.I.Y Beauty Dish!!

D.I.Y Beauty Dish

I made myself a little Beauty Dish from some buits I had around the house... I used a bowl left over from my birthday party, some duck tape and some zip-ties... Now this turned out to be alot smaller then the one on the video below but its only made from a small kids party eating bowl and not a big salad bolw!

Anyways... here are some images of both the dish.

but I will make a bigger one once I have gone down to the pound shop for some bits if I dont go and make a REALLY good on I might hit B&Q to make this one! (Below)

the magic BUT!!

BUT!

A funny word, a word with almost magic powers. A word that can make almost anything happen.

It seems that you can be so hard lined about a subject and never move from that point still something comes into the fre and that word comes along.

Like how someone who will fight for women's right and equality BUT find it ok to watch Victoria's Secrets Fashion show because its different.

Then there is always the "I'm not a raciest... BUT". Why does this word have some much power to just change a person into something else.

Anyways, just something that came into my head tonight.

Black Wednesday!

IT'S NOW MIDNIGHT SO HERE GOES

I have told you guys about SOPA and PIPA before and today some of you might have had some trouble getting onto some sites like Craigslist, Mojang(aka Mine craft) Destructoid, Wikipedia and others, getting a screen like this!

Blacking out logos, blocking there own sites or just not twitting or FBing for 24hours!

Today marks the day that the internet said no to SOPA! Everyone from twitters to gamers, bloggers to massive computer giants like Google come together for fighting the US Govement on both SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).

From another person that I check has told me that there is another thing we should start worrying about... ICANN, now if you wish to read more about ICANN witch some feel is the real story and SOPA is just a Red Herring, read the blog on this LINK!

Oh and this might become a familiar site for you guys soon if this goes through

Happy surfing!!

Flashie New Toy

I know some of you are bored of hearing about things im going to get and with camera stuff at the top of the list I am sure your going to hate this blog as well....

But as you are still reading my blog after almost a full year of my chatting about Canon this and L lens that I am taking it that I cant put you off.

Ok ok, Tomorrow(or on monday) I will be ordering my new flash for my camera.

As a Strobe (a photography that loves using flash) I plan on getting a few speedlights, but this 1st one I'm getting is the badboy Flash, the others will be smaller and cheaper... but will all be controlled by this one bit of gear!

Canon EX 580ii

This is canons top flash and one of the best flashes in all range's let along just Canon.

(the best on the market is Nikon's SB900/910) I am going to try a litte test when I get it as I might be able to use my old Sony speedlight on it as well, I did do some tests while I had a friends 580 but I was drunk at the time (It was my birthday (",)sue me! )

I just want to say thank you to everyone for helping me get to this point, with all the donations from my birthday and xmas. I would not be getting this so soon without your help.

Thank you once again

Games from CES 2012

Something coming out of CES and a game that I wanna keep my eyes open for and a new take on the survival horror and as its coming on XBox Live (and PSN later) it really does look good

I Am Alive

Oh and keep an eye out for Lollipop Chainsaw (See Below)

New Xbox and PlayStation consoles could be revealed at E3 this year

For my gaming friends out there... You might have herd that we are in a 10 year cycle of this Console generation, and like me you might have through that "Kincet" and "Move" would be the thing to keep this gen alive for another 3/4 years...

Well its strongly rumerd that this year at E3 both Sony and Microsoft will be unveiled there next system. This has got my pissed as I really belived in this 10 cycle happening. I have had almost every manger console starting from the ZX Spectrum +2 (1982) to the Sega Master System and the NES up till now (the seventh generation)

I am used to getting somthing new every 5 years and that is a good thing as tech changes and its great to get that box fresh new console, Finding out all the new cool stuff that could happen on this platform as well as everything else that comes with it.

But this was at time when a new console costs around the £150 mark and the games were between £15/£25... This last gen saw the PS3 Start price at well over £500 and the xbox360 was around the £300 price point. That is the reason I am a little pissed over this coming out now.

Now the Xbox came out in November 2005 and the PS3 a year later so you could say that its been between 6 and 7 years and that should be fine. After all its been longer then 5 years but I just see it as rude to lie to us as we are the people that now pay stupid money for what we love, 100s of pounds and nearly £50 for a game that only lasts us about 4/5hours(See the new COD)

Let It Die... StarWars Live Action?

WOW!

Your not going to believe what I have just read... And its made me feel very sad indeed.

New Details Emerge on Live-ActionStar Wars TV Show

LINK

Yes... I know!

WHAT THE FUCK!!

Now I like many people have been a life long Star Wars fan, I loved everything about the frist 3 movies, from the films themselves to the toys, Books and games I mean everything!

Now I remember when the put out about "The Phantom Menace" And my hope were sky high, Everything that could be done with all the computer tech that had come out since 1983. With a funny looking smile on my face I tried to find something about it I liked, being the good little fan and blanked out the bad... The came Attack of the Clones. And it was on that very day that I gave up on George Lucas!

Both MovieBoo and SouthPark have said it and now I belive that the rest of us need to learn, Stop having hope for this IP and just let it die!

Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta

Guess what guys...

Adobe is launching the beta for the new Lioghtroom and you can jump on it right now.

I just watched a clip from Adam Lerner on youtube (Video below) and it does look good, there are some bits like Photo book creation more noise reduction & Location-based organization (If you have the GPS on/in the camera).

The 2 things that stand out to me is both a video editing sute as well as a White balance brush.

Anyways... I think I might try it out in the next few days but as I am already low on memory on this computer I might have to leave it for now. If you wish to jump on this beta you can use this LINK and please let me know what you think of it.

A London Walk (Night)

The Other night, Fluff was having a girls night in with some friends... So I had to be out of the house and I took it apone myself to to get some images of London at Night on the new camera

I am pretty happy with what I ended up with and ended up popping to my brothers place to see out the right of the evening (where is was warm)

Anyways... the set is live on this LINK!

Hope you enjoy!