Moment of madness

By the time you read this I may have already had a heart attack, possibly in the hospital recovering from a quadruple bypass (if that's even possible). No I'm not suicidal, but as I am writing this I'm trying to get into the website which reveals my uni results. After what seems like a million attempts of refreshing the page and retyping my password, I still haven't gotten in. There is a ridiculous amount of nervous energy and adrenaline flying through my limbs as I sit idly in this cold, wooden chair.

I think I'm in ... hold on

No ... wait the page didn't load properly

This must be what gameshow contestants and reality TV stars suffer through as they announce the correct answer (or the winner). Fuck, this is annoying.

Here we go, I'm in for real this time

FUCK YES!

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand undefeated.

If I was a boxer, this would have gone down to the wire, and it would have been a points decision. If this was basketball, it would have been like that 6OT game from the 09 NCAA Tourney.

The rush of relief when the letters P and C came up next to the subjects was comparable to hitting a game winning shot, or coaching a winning team.

Nerve wracking would have been an understatement.

Oh, and that photo above? That is the most correct representation of my mind through this state of affairs. No, not blurred (or bokeh), more like an organised mess. Please excuse the short, choppy sentences and the butchered english language. In this case, it seemed fitting :)

p.s. photo was shot at f/2, manual focus (deliberately out of focus) with the Panasonic LX-3

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The First One

Hmm, the very first post of this blog had exactly the same title. Finally I had the chance to have a play around with the LX-3, and here's the first real shot taken with the camera.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix LX-3

Settings: 13sec, f/6.3, ISO 100

The sunset was showing some decent colours, and I really couldn't help but take a photo. I used the roof of my car as a make shift tripod for such a long exposure setting, and ended up cropping the bottom in LR2. Prize goes out to the person that can guess this street ... Hint: It's in Cabramatta.

On the side, to show some of the other photos taken with the camera ... I've merged together a couple of the other photos (mainly to save space)

These are the kind of photos that you would take when you're bored. A quick survey of your surroundings and a quick flick through the local paper will provide a reasonable amount of subject matter that can be manipulated. The 24mm wide angle of this camera allows you to have slightly more interesting angles and geometric distortions. Also, the macro on this camera is quite good ... and what better way to demonstrate it than to take a photo of text.

One other thing that stands out is the rendering of blues and greens by the sensor. It's definitely not the kind of blue I've been getting from the Canon 50D, and there's something about it that I really like. NB: These 6 photos are all straight out of the camera, the only processing is codec conversion from RAW to JPEG.

Looking forward to posting more from this camera, maybe it'll surprise me even more than it already has.

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