The Occasional rantingz of Dinesh Benedict

Creative Saturday!

hydrolicz — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:07:15 +0000

Felt creative today and I had my woman here with me to use as a victim! decided to try a little Digital Painting so to speak.. Cause I can’t say that my make up skills are any good. But thank god for Photoshop. Here is the outcome:

Registration completed

hydrolicz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:05:23 +0000

Finally… the company is set up and legally registered for business… Phase 1 completed. I’m still a little shell shocked me and Harsh registered Hydrolicz Photography and are ready to take it to the next level. Just look at it… lovely… time to begin another chapter in life

Sunday Moody Shoot

hydrolicz — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:22:36 +0000

So I’m back from langkawi.. was too lazy to sort out and organize the 647 images.. haha so did another shoot instead at home.. can you bare….was itchyfied to use the new Tamron lens.. and I noticed it takes a long time to focus when its dark…

You can view the full series here: http://hydrolic.multiply.com/photos/album/122

Shopping Spree!

hydrolicz — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:05:16 +0000

So today I spent the whole day at Pertama Komplex in KL looking for camera equipment! Yes.. very expensive hobby… I know.. And I wouldn’t advise anyone to spend too much time there with the recent recession and all. anyway.. back to the story!! I got some yummy new toys and so did Haresh! So it’s time to organize more shoots! hahaha…

So we both got itchy and bought a Tamron 18-270mm VC each! yup!! one for the both of us. Of course Haresh’s one has the Canon mounting and we had to wait an hour for it to arrive (ggrr!) The most appealing part of the lens was the VC (Vibration Compensation) which is very effective! it beats the Nikon 18-200 flat! anyway… we got the lens and now we had to get some Hoya filters for it… after that a pair of PT-04 so we can fire up or flashes without them being mounted to the cameras! ermm.. what else.. yes.. an umbrella and the holder for it cause I keep stealing Alan Voon’s for shoots! (thanks alan)

If u notice the Arsenal clock above.. that was a test shot at home! itchyfied maximus! I like how the shadows turned out though. Pleasant day! well at least until i see my credit card bill

Go GO Speedy Gonzales!

hydrolicz — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:41:24 +0000

Our sports club organized another go kart session recently… “John King Endurance Round 1” Yup first of 3 rounds planned for the year…so me and Alan Leo just had to take part cause we don’t have any other reason to kart.

You probably see endurance race and think cross country racing or something. But in reality, it’s just 15 minutes for each driver to go out and kick ass. Should be called something more like “tag team racing!” Cause it’s two drivers per team and your overall laps in 30 minutes count. Having said that you really have to endure the Blazing hot to hell sun that will BURN you at every corner. yup… it’s true.. the heat kills… not the speed!

Got to hand it to Timothy for organizing this flawlessly each time… good job! My fastest Ok lar it’s slow… was “1:03.30″ and we managed to slot in nicely at 8th place. hahahaaa… not too bad considering there were 20 teams and that i spun twice on the track!…

The rest of the pics are up on TIM’s site.

hydrolicz — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:38:28 +0000

My girl is in France this month… went to visit her grandparents and they stay on a farm! how cool is dat!… and I mean a farm with cows and chickens and pigs and what not! She just sent me a pic today of the pool surrounded by snow… place looks awesome! wish my boss would give me a month off!! I WANNA GO!

Special thanks….

hydrolicz — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:14:11 +0000

Had a PHOTOSHOOT this weekend!… and wanted to thank everyone for making it happen….(Alan leo, Jessy Lim, Racheal Ang, Michelle, Harsh, Alan Voon & Jeremie) Especially to Alan Leo(shorty) for being sporting enough to let us use his pad to shoot… and not to mention for the beers… Not to forget Alan Voon for bringing shit loads of equipment as usual….. yummy.. and most of all for the beautiful talented models that managed to put up with our shit…. hahaha Hope everyone had fun….

behind the scenes..

Only draw back was that somehow my ISO got boosted up to 1600!!!!! So plenty of noise in all the photos… sigh..anyhow the outcome is up on my multiply so go check them out!!

Tethered Shooting with my Nikon D50

hydrolicz — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:18:11 +0000

I was thinking about this before, but pretty much gave up hope when someone said “have to purchase expensive software to get it working”… Well decided to look it up again and thanks to the wonders of the capital WWW and youtube my hunt is over at a very al cheapo price.. ahha… no cost involved actually.

Ok not to confuse the lost souls.. for those of you wondering what is tethered shooting.. well here is a good explanation from wikipedia “to take picture while connected to a personal computer, for quick transfer of images to the computer (and sometimes also display on the computer screen)” In other words it’s a fancy way to get my picture sent to the lap top screen as soon as I snap it!! good way to check out what you took nice and big big! and also the subject gets to instantly see it as well! not to mention how pro you would look as well lar…

What you need to get it working? well… read on..

Camera (Duh!)
USB cable from camera to lap top
Software to push the images : http://www.diyphotobits.com/
Editor to view the images (adobe lightroom)

So the idea is to get the image downloaded to your pc as soon as you snap it, and get the photo editor to watch a folder and display any new images that pops up in there. Can anyone say YummY!

I won’t get into the nitty-gritty details cause there are other sites that explain it a lot better than I would… so go get the software for Nikon cameras here http://www.diyphotobits.com/ Just go to the downloads page. Read his site… this dude has an awesome site! Watch his video to see how to set it up : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAIC_p3lzo

Also here is the video on how to get adobe lightroom to watch a folder to display anything new: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9p4LD1SqWo (it’s actually a tutorial for cannon and Mac users, but we Windows people are smart and can decipher anything.. hahaha)

*WARNING* There are plenty of other software tools you could use to get this done. I’m just blogging about what I tried and worked for me

Anyway.. here is a my test shot I took and got pushed to my PC instantly! ok larr… maybe not instantly… more like 2 seconds later! but counts as instantly rite?

My Photography Site is up and Running!

hydrolicz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:50:46 +0000

Well it’s finally time and its 99% done… my photography site is up and runnong after two years of glorious shooting on my Nikon SLR… lovely… just shows how time flies.. So go check it out.. time to whore out the site… can always use the extra cash for alcohol!!

Photography site : http://www.hydrolicz.com
Multiply: http://hydrolic.multiply.com/

It’s 2009 baby!

hydrolicz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:41:40 +0000

Lets see.. I prob haven’t update this site like from the begining of 2008.. pretty good time to start working on the site again since it’s another new year! woo hoo! how was your new years?? I had a blast partying the only way I know how too… all attempts to try and get wasted for the nite!!