Welcome to the page of an avid Australian photographer, artist, musician and computer g33k .
Photography
Photography is something i've been interested in for about a year now, but has been my primary hobby since about a year now.
Here is my kit:
- Nikon D80
- Nikon FE10 (not pictured)
- Nikkor AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED
- Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.8 D
- Nikon SB-600 Speedlight (not pictured)
- Slik Sprint Pro 3 Way (not pictured)
(Yes and that is The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain on the right!)
What do I shoot? Anything, though I seem to be better with portraits rather than landscapes.
Wishlist
- Nikon D300 or Nikon D700
- Nikkor AF-S VR 70-200mm f/2.8 ED
- Tokina AT-X Pro SD 11-16mm f/2.8 (IF) DX
Art
I don't draw much these days, but when I do, it's usually anime stuff. There's also the photos.
Music
Was my primary hobby 3 years ago. I own 5 guitars and 2 keyboards, which I hardly pick up these days. I play around in FL Studio once in a blue moon; I have dozens upon dozens of unfinished tracks.
I started playing keyboard again, however I still suck at guitar so i'm contemplating on selling two of those 5 (though 1 is broken).
I hate the question "What kind of music do you play?". In a nutshell, non-pop music.
Computers
This is something I have stuck with since I like 6 (or even earlier?). The other 3 interests cross-over into this; for example, I do post-processing for my photos in Photoshop/Lightroom, turn my drawings into Vectors art via Adobe Illustrator and compose my music in FL Studio.
The 'rig' *wipes dust off the top of the case*:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 overclocked to 2.66 GHz
- 2GB Corsair DDR2 RAM
- Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P
- Seagate 250GB and Western Digital 250GB harddrive
- Two AOC 416V 24" wide LCD monitors side by side
- Galaxy GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB
- Logitech X-510 5.1 (It's pretty crap so I chucked away the center and rear speakers)
- Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro soundcard
- Windows XP Pro SP3 (Service Pack 3 breaks everything, don't install it)
and
Windows 7 Beta 1 64-bit (This, on the other hand is all kinds of awesome. Would use as my main OS if it was gold.)
and
Linux Mint 6.0
and
Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Yeah Hackintosh/OSx86, people!)
Web Design/Development
I enjoy web design and I am proficient at XHTML 1.0 (Strict) and CSS Level 2.1. I can use JavaScript, but I only know the basics. I have touched on CSS Level 3. I say HTML 5.0 is a waste of time and its features should be implemented into XHTML 2.0 or something. I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.
Google Page Creator sucks because I can't use my own CSS or anything. The HTML editor reverts my markup to plain ol' HTML. Grr.
Finally, the world would be a better place without Internet Explorer. Be sensible and use something like Firefox, Opera or Chrome instead.
