Life’s Lessons » Photography gears and accessories

Back-up

kerslyn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:36:22 +0000

Back-up time again. I am making a back-up file of the photos saved in the computer so I could delete those that are already uploaded in Flickr® hoping that the PC’s performance would improve if there’s a lot of free disk space already. I wouldn’t push myself to do back-up if there’d be no notification that the free memory space is less than 1 gigabyte. Talk about the great procastinator!hahaha. Burning photos is also a pain because the PC is too slow and one DVD lasts for more than an hour. That is why I almost don’t wanna do back-up of our files because my momentum is interrupted. What a good justification!*lol*

Anyway, based on my Flickr® stats, I’ve already uploaded 18,000++ photos and I am not yet halfway of all our files. Sadly, we don’t have print copies of our photos. I always wanted to have some photos printed so I could frame it but I am too lazy to resize it. I need to resize it to my desired print size so it won’t be cropped when it will come out from the printing machine (because people in photo printing shops are too lazy to resize the photos). Now if I can’t have our photos printed, might as well have a digital frame like the one in the picture so relatives and friends may also see our photos since most of them love to see their faces in the picture. I chanced upon that frame in buy[dot]com and it is so tempting because it is free shipping! Wish I have the funds to purchase that online.

Our baby is here!

kerslyn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:35:57 +0000

Hello! My few constant readers must have wonder where am I or what I’ve been up to lately that made me silent in the blogosphere. Well, I am busy with not so important things. I am spending too much time tending my farm in Farm Town and I am so glad that I am beginning to get tired of it so now I am back to my real self…to the real world.

Remember my post about our coming baby? Yes, finally we got it last Saturday! Thanks to Ace for making this dream come to a reality. It is actually a conjugal property (so I can’t say MINE), but he shared more to it as it is his birthday gift to me and here is our baby…the Canon Speedlite 430EX II that we bought at Canon dHUB in Gaisano Mall.

I haven’t explored using it except for some shots that it was set to ETTL. I wanted to learn more using the the flash on manual mode but I was too busy with other things. What excites me most is that I can now shoot in low light and Ace can now shoot their company’s sports events (because he was too frustrated shooting at a kinda dim gymnasium for he got blurry photos and the pop-up flash couldn’t help him get a decent shot). Now we need a bigger bag because our Tamrac Velocity 6x cannot carry all our gear and accessories but that could wait until next payday. I’ll just carry the flash and another lens in my handbag while Ace is carrying the camera bag everytime we go out.

New baby

kerslyn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:40:02 +0000

I’ve talked about our plan of getting a new baby (not the literal baby) in my previous posts and we scheduled it yesterday. It’s actually a gift from Ace but the giver is more excited than the receiver!*lol* After my haircut, we went to Canon dHUB to purchase the item but it’s out of stock. Bummer! All the while we thought we could get it yesterday so we are a bit disappointed. Anyhow, stocks are coming and we reserved one so we might get it tomorrow or on Friday. The people in dHUB are so accommodating so we stayed there for a while and Ace got the chance to try some DSLRs on display. Now he got another thing in mind and I am pretty sure he will work hard to have it. Let’s wait and see next year.