At the beginning of the year I decided to join the Melbourne University photography Fotoholics club and apart from a guest lecture I hadn’t attended any meetings/functions until last Friday night when a group of about thirty of us went to the Docklands in Melbourne. From 4:30 to 8:30 we walked around, took photos [...]
After reading the many cool DIY reader projects at diyphotography.net I saw a cool idea for a cheap and easy DIY snoot for my Vivitar 285HV. So since I have nothing but time on my hands lately, I decided to make one although mine looks different and is much bulkier. I basically used 5mm [...]
The free gift diffuser which came with the Vivitar 285HV was a pain in the arse to setup so I was looking at some diffusers to buy online but they were all about $30 and didn’t want to piss the wife off too much as I think my little photography related spending spree is [...]
As I posted earlier, I’m awaiting the Vivitar 285HV Flash unit, hopefully it gets here tomorrow (Mon 18th). Even though the the flash will work directly with the Pentax K10D out of the box, the supplied cord allows for the flash to only be mounted on the camera which in my view, limits it’s [...]
Gotta love Japanese customer service…I ordered the tripod, remote and trigger last Sunday night and I received the tripod yesterday (2 days) and the remote/trigger today (3 days).
Here’s the items, stolen images from Amazon (At least I credited them!)
I was thinking in which ways can this new setup advance my photography [...]
I’ve been putting a few yen away each month without the wife knowing and decided to buy a few things to help me take my photography skills to the next level. Her’s some items I’ve been thinking of buying;
1) Flash – Sigma 530 DG Super (24,000 yen)
2) Tripod – Slik Pro 330 [...]