I am going to skip the “I am sorry I haven’t updated my blog for a while”. With that out of the way, 2010 has been great for me. Haven’t done and major purchases in terms of glass, but I’ve bought couple of small bits and pieces for my lighting gear. On another note, printers tend to have this hatred against me, they always either run out of ink or literally break down during the most crucial moments. At first I bought a laser printer (Samsung CLP), and when the ink ran out, I tried to install a chip to reset the ink meter. That turned out to be a disaster, I rushed the job and I ended up getting electrocuted. So I dumped the printer and bought myself an InkJet printer. I knew ink costed heaps so I looked for other alternatives.

I came across a terminology I’ve never heard before, CISS (Continuous Ink Supply System). The pictures are pretty self explanatory, instead of refilling your cartridges everytime it runs out (sorry printer manufacturers), you can pipe the ink into the cartridges from an external ink reservoir. This solved all my problems with ink, now I just have to hope that the printer wont die on me. I did a little research in terms of which brand to buy, and I discovered RIHAC through the forums. I definitely recommend their range, don’t buy cheap alternatives as they will most definitely disappoint you in one way or another, ie: leaking, bad quality ink (After all if you want to do you own photo prints, you are going to want the best possible ink).  Installation was fairly simple but may get a little bit messy if you are not careful. In terms of print quality, I can’t tell the difference between original Canon ink and RIHAC ink. Of course I am no printing genius, but it looked fine from where I was standing.

All in all, $140 is not a lot of money to spend when compared to thousands of dollars that you would have to spend buying original ink cartridges of the same quantity (100ml each colour).

Get it from: http://www.rihac.com.au
I am not affiliated with any mentioned companies.

Michael.

Sorry for the really bad camera quality. But this is what is going to look like tomorrow for a shoot with Gabby. Keep tuned to see the results!

Humberside Police Road Crime Section Lineup, originally uploaded by harry.brayford.

You certainly don’t want to mess around in this town! Can you imagine yourself being chased by these police cars? I think robbers would give up at the first sight of the Evo X.

#006 of 365, originally uploaded by M.Suprana.

Sorry for not posting the day 006 photo but here it is! I’ve taken the liberty of putting into more effort into it this time. Had lots of fun with it, that’s the main thing. I took this with my Nikon D90 and 35mm F1.8G AF-S. The images consisted of a lot of different exposures and compositions, had to cut and paste from numerous amount of images (mainly for the background). The car itself was from one image. So how did I achieve this image you ask? I used a very complicated technique called light painting (/sarcasm).

Cool! Wait.. whaa??
Light painting is pretty much getting your torch out and paint an object with it just like using a paint brush. Set your camera to BULB mode and use a remote trigger. Set the F stop to very high.. say F/13. Then go nuts!