The 200th post

Don’t do unnecessary things.

     I’m not sure who said that, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, or myself – or where I heard it from – but it’s been one of my mantras for a few good years now however This semester I for whatever totally dropped the idea and indulged in the whole-fully unnecessary. Taking classes that don’t directly pertain to my end goals. I’ve been wracking myself with things I’m not right for. I’ve been spending a lot of time out and about and it has been eating away at me. I’m going to start taking as many on-line classes as I can in the future. I figured getting face time with the instructor would do me some good, this has been wrong. However I’m not going to take classes this summer semester, instead I suppose I’ll prep for the up coming spring semester; see if I can contest a math level. I also want to get the CCNA and-additionally the CCNP, we’ll see how well that goes. Finals are next week.

     Socially I’ve not been doing well, I went to a Baptism and took some pictures that didn’t turn out so well. I made a sacrifice that was unreasonable: it was a low light environment however, it was full of people, the people and those being Baptized were the subject matter so I needed to go as wide as I could, and on top of all this I felt I couldn’t use flash. So I used my sigma 18-200mm on a 1.6 crop frame which starts off at 3.5/f. I could only drop my speed down to about 60 before blur would set in; all this together made for some pretty dark pictures. I should have used my 50mm prime. Which starts off at 1.4/f....I could jump it to 2.5 and get more subject matter in and still get more light than at 3.5. The bokeh woulda been crazy and I'd have had to stand on the other side of the building but at least the lighting would have been better and the subjects more than just brownish blackish blobs. Anyway, at the end of the actual event there was a gathering of people at the hosts house. I was over-dressed, I couldn't bring myself to actually say anything to anyone and instead was relegated to being the creepy guy in the corner. When someone did talk to me I shat bricks. I'm not all that great at group events with strangers.....
Regardless, I did get this:

Which ain't half bad.

     In other news. I gave a friend of mine permission to use one of my photos in a project they were working on. The photo:

is one of my early tests with my new 50mm prime, along with the fly at the top. It's a basic closeup of a rose and it was used as the back-cover for a 'greatest hits'-esq CD for a the group "12 Girls Band", sounds like Ancient Chinese Kung-Fu Secrets.

Grab a copy of the CD here or here. The CD's named "Perfect Best", which aught to be interesting.

Blogger doesn't have an outright "private post" option so I've been thinking about either moving to WordPress on jinkaku.net or a hosted WordPress. I believe WordPress does have private posts.

     Aside from that I don't think there is much else to talk about. I updated some of my coding books and have been working on some ideas 'incognito' so perhaps, if I don't scrap them, I'll write about them in aggidev.