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cheers man. for such a small camera it never ceases to amaze me. yeah its got some limitations, but if you can look past them its also got more capabilities than you would expect.

i'll have a good look at your site when I get home, but from a quick glance I'm loving your night time car shots. inspirational :P

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Hey Nick,

I use LR 3.2 and it's friggin awesome. Direct uploading to facebook/flickr/smugmug is great because i dont have to export to photoshop and edit them all individually like i normally do and then upload to flickr. That's the main reason i use it and also i use LR to rate my photos and cull them from events/things i attend or take photos of. Great organisational tool. I don't like bridge because i've always used LR, but bridge is a great tool - Just personal preference.

Also - I don't think Owens flash will work because it can't be put in slave mode (by the look of it).

the built in flash will only fire pre-flashes. Which are extremely low power but enough so that it will trigger your OCF flashes. Your OCF flashes will fire once they have detected the pre-flash. the pre-flash will not be able to be seen in the photo.

I thought there was a simpler way, i shall investigate further!

Jay - Sweet shot! Looks friggin awesome from a P&S! And i'm a camera Nazi-racist!! Just kidding. But seriously, Canon. Haha.

Matt - Website is looking good. Try to get an ABN and get a .com.au domain as well as a .com and setup a 301 re-direct. That way you own both domains.

I don't like how the first paragraph for the text next to the image is left aligned, yet the second paragraph is right aligned, i think it should both be the same if you know what i mean?

Set up a contact page! They are not hard. You don't even have to do the php coding, just download a template of a contact form off the interwebz. Will be much better than just having a "Contact" and your email below it. Will be more professional.

Have you thought about integrating a blog? Wordpress is free and simple to set up. With the theme you have going, you could just make the entire background black and it would look just the same as your website. Make sure it opens in a new tab though, that way people don't get re-directed and have to navigate back. This will most probably cause them to just exit your site.

If your marketing yourself as an automotive photographer, i suggest in your portfolio it has nothing besides automotive shots. No landscapes etc... This would be where a blog could come in handy where you could post your landscapes here or create a seperate page in the "galleries" and just have landscapes in there.

In your "featured cars" would you prefer the list to be going down or the list to go across like 3-5 shoots in a row?

Is there a reason in your "event galleries" there is 4 seperate pages of SAU's Texi day? Are these every single photo you took ( i assume so) or just the best from the day/reasonably sharp/composition is good bla bla?

Overall - I like the layout and the website, just pointing out a few things.

Well this is a friggin long ass post. Enough from me.

Haha hows your novel? :D

Thanks for the feedback! I DO have an ABN, I SHOULD get the .com.au. I might do it sooner than later, good idea!

It's not left aligned, I just added a tab to the beginning of the paragraph, which is what you're meant to do when writing in english. I think it's something that's been forgotten with all these whizz bang new fangled computers. It does look odd. I might revise.

I can intergrate a blog easily, beleive it or not I am using wordpress, I just modded the shit out of it to suit what I wanted. I like the back end on it. I originally had a blog, i don't even think I deleted it, I just hated going back and looking at how shit most of my shots were.Thought it made me look bad on the site.

4 Event galleries cos the plug in i use dies if you throw more than 150 pics in. I Might look into that add on you've got. I really like how your pics navigate. it's really clever and easy. I deleted the pics that weren't sharp, but that's most of them up there. I just figured I'd put them up for people to see their cars. Definately wasn't a heavy cull.

THanks again man, appreciate it :ermm:

Also - I don't think Owens flash will work because it can't be put in slave mode (by the look of it).

the built in flash will only fire pre-flashes. Which are extremely low power but enough so that it will trigger your OCF flashes. Your OCF flashes will fire once they have detected the pre-flash. the pre-flash will not be able to be seen in the photo.

I thought there was a simpler way, i shall investigate further!

When we have this meetup I'll bring it along (obviously) and you guys can play with it to your hearts' content. Or, Sunday if you're coming cause I'll be bringing my kitbag :ermm:

Yah, i understand the "tab" thing for english, but for a website, i think you can do without it. If it looks odd, it looks odd. Doesn't matter if it's proper grammar and punctuation lol. CHANGE IT GODDAMIT!

Owen - Sounds like a plan. We'll burn your eyes out using you as a test subject :ermm:

I got my ABN using my name and as a sole trader. I think i did put in "Kory Leung Photography" as a business name, but i am trading under my name i think. Can't remember. Either way, i got it lol.

Ben - That first pic is really really moody! Love it! The 2nd one is really dramatic too. You've got an eye for shots, keep it up mate!

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awesome work Ben, that first pic is really really good!!! Excellent work on the colours and tones. If it's not far, go back there in a few months when you're more familiar with your gear, throw it on a tripod and shoot it at f22 and a longer exposure.

very impressive!!!!

p.s. NICK it's waiting on my stick!

awesome work Ben, that first pic is really really good!!! Excellent work on the colours and tones. If it's not far, go back there in a few months when you're more familiar with your gear, throw it on a tripod and shoot it at f22 and a longer exposure.

very impressive!!!!

p.s. NICK it's waiting on my stick!

OR you could go back in a few months and shoot it at f/11 with a ND filter so that you don't create barrel distortion/show every single bit of dust on your sensor :)

so, went back out into the cold and dark to vandalize the neighborhood with light once again.

some worked some didnt, but had fun regardless. love the feeling of anticipation as you wait to see what comes up on screen.

anyway...

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I'm going to redo this one. So damn dark in there, I keep forgetting where the lines need to go, haha.

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Was a bit ambitious, very technical and again pretty hard to see.

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Pretty stoked with this one. Colours came out pretty rad, lines could be cleaner *shakes fist at slide switches, lol*

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not sure this one was worth the effort. had to jump a fence effectively locking myself in, lol. if security had come id have some explaining to do as theres no escape, haha.

cant wait for tomorrow night, haha.

So how do you do these, are they long exposure and you run a light around the outside of it?

yeah man, 30 - 60 seconds exposures and pretty much just trace the outline with an LED trying not to get in the way of the lens and accidently block the light (harder than it sounds at time, specially in tight places)

Lasers?

haha, nah no lasers, but if i had the money for a few diff coloured lasers I would love to use them, would open up a few more possibilities.

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Do you stand next to the wall and trace it, and stand further back with a torch?

Jays showing me up with a P&S :P Nice work, mate.

yeah pretty much, the led is almost touching the wall most times (well for outlines mainly). i sometimes end up with pretty badly scraped up knuckles as im tracing them out, lol. im looking into a better set of tools soon as these have translucent cases and if i dont hold them right i get double lines and other things happening. ah yeah the slide switches are getting a bit frustrating too, often cant slide them off in time and have to redo things a bit.

to get some ambient background colours stand further back with the torch, but hit it at around 45 degree angle or so to minimize blowouts and reflections. in the first two of the last set you can see a bright spot on the bottom of the wall where ive rested the torch on the ground so i have a little light to see what im doing, but as im looking at the LED's while tracing as soon as the lights off sometimes i cant see where the next line starts, haha.

and showing you up? i dont know about that, lol.

this thing has limitations, but i take that as a challenge rather than a defeat ;)

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