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Pictures taken during Gemilang outing

Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been smashing my head on my monitor. I thought buying a color calibrator would help me to calibrate my monitors at ease. Instead, it gives more complication to my already complicated work flow. The Lacie blue eye does not come with friendly end-user manual to start with.

All these while I have been processing my pictures with wrong color calibration. zadm came to my house and saw my so-called calibrated monitor as pinkish. Took me 2 days just to figure out how to fix that.

Hopefully, now things will be ok. Well not really. My 22 inches monitor is not as sharp as I was hoping. I can see noise on an ISO 100 image. Images that I shot using ISO 200 looks like I was using ISO 800. That is how much noise I can see on my monitor. I have to use my 8 years old CRT monitor to double check my color and noise (as you can see on my setup at the moment). I read somewhere that LCD is still not as good as CRT just yet.

I have to re-process my old images again. Sigh~

I am also learning to use Adobe Lightroom. It is different than Canon Digital Photo Professional. It redefined photography workflow. Different workflow that what I used to do. I am still trying to convince myself whether to use the Lightroom and learn new software and change my workflow OR stick with the old software and be left behind in technology :)

On another note this weekend is going to be hectic for me:

1. Maulud Nabi Muhammad S.A.W on saturday morning
2. Gemilang photo society meeting on saturday afternoon @ 2. I am not their member yet. Forgot to fill in their form and pay their life time membership fee. Hope I remember to bring them on Saturday. Oh ya, if you guys wanna come with me and register with them, let me know.
3. Proboscis monkey outing on Sunday. Please visit our forum for more info on this. Here is the direct link to the topic (http://www.bruneiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=120). Go and register at the forum. We are very active and more things to come.