Something To Make My Blog Seem Updated

As the title suggests...

I realised that my camera can do black and white photos! And there's a fair amount of settings to mess around with like filters and tones. Great for those times when you want to see black and white effect straight away...

Surry Hills

Hello! To anyone who still looks up my blog, I'm back! I know I haven't updated for a whole damn month. It's cos I'm lazy. And unmotivated. But I'm back and here are some photos from a photoshoot at Surry Hills/Oxford Street I did with a fellow photographer a few weeks ago. I actually quite like the results. I haven't really done any "street photography" for a long time and it was really fun!

Hopefully I can pull myself together and start processing and uploading photos that I have taken in the past month and also upload Taiwan Part 2 that I promised a while ago.

Kevin's blog ain't dead and he appreciates the patience of those who suck around for updates!

If I do disappear again and you feel a need for more of Kevin's photos, I do have a microblog that I update much more often that this. It's my "Random Thought and iPhone Photos" blog and that one takes much less effort to update, thanks to Apple iPhone's wonderful App Store and Tumblr's very convenient app.

Good day to you sir/mademoiselle!

Caged Vespas

Mysterious and dark workshop

Fasinating piece of art. I think it used to be some sort of sign, but it got pulled out, leaving just the glue on the wall. This resulted with a very unintended piece of artwork.

Chinese gallery that wasn't open that day.

Oran Park Raceway Part 2

Found a few more cool ones from the Oran Park set. I tried to get a very dramatic effect with the one above. It didn't turn out as I wanted but I still quite like it. I couldn't really get the vignette right and I couldn't really give it a sense of speed. I tried blurring the background but it didn't look realistic. I've updated the gallery for this set as well. Check it out if you haven't!

Oran Park Raceway

My friend invited me to go down to Oran Park Raceway the other day. I haven't been down to a track before so I was quite intrigued by all that sound and  all that technical talk. Because Oran Park Raceway is going to be demolished for housing development next year, this particular event was going to be one of the last, ever. It wasn't really a race, but rather a time-attack/time-trial thing.

So here are some photos of that day. I haven't taken photos of fast moving objects before, so it was quite a challenge to learn how to pan properly. The autofocus of D700 proved its worth and it was super fast at tracking the cars.  I didn't get many nice shots in the end, partly because I wasn't in interesting positions; I was too lazy to drive up to the other side of the track. As I find more good shots, I'll post them up in the gallery. So check back once in a while if you are into cars and racing.

Straight Through

Took a pretty cool pic with my iPhone today. It's the view straight through my 70-300 VR. Used Mill Colour app for retouching.