As far as photographic equipment goes, I try to make do with what I have as much as possible.  But when the opportunity presents itself, I will use what ever is at my disposal.

And in this case, while shooting at the Goat Locker Boxing Gym, they have a very unique facility in which they have their own Octagon. Yes, same one you’d see in MMA fights.

And it’s also not every day that I can get to shoot with 2 400 watt lights. The results are as you see.

Via Flickr:
The Goat Locker Boxing Gym Round girls screening.

I haven’t always been a fan of strobe lighting. I would even venture out and say that I am afraid of getting it wrong. But there are times when the environment really forces you to use them.

Eventually, I learned to embrace it and lately have been experimenting with using a single flash. And true as it is, it’s less complicated than it seems.

I read a lot from David Hobby’s blog and And have so far been enjoying applying the techniques he’s mentioned.

And he deserves the highest honors we can bestow for doing so. This is just on the border of NSFW, so watch out.

via Some man- No, some hero put a camera on a hula hoop at Burning Man.

A boudoir (French: [bu.dwaʁ], English: /ˈbuːd.wɑːr/) is a lady’s private bedroom, sitting room or dressing room. The term derives from the French verb bouder, meaning “to be sulky” or boudeur, meaning “sulky”.

The term “boudoir” may also be ascribed to a genre of photography. Boudoir photography is not generally a new concept and numerous examples including ones of Kathleen Meyers, Clara Bow, Mae West and Jean Harlow photographed in a boudoir style.
Typically shot in a photographer’s studio or luxury hotel suites, it has become fashionable to create a set of sensual or sexually suggestive images of women (and occasionally men and couples) in “boudoir style”. The most common manifestation of contemporary boudoir photography is to take variations of candid and posed photographs of the subject partly clothed or in lingerie. Nudity is more often implied than explicit. Commercially the genre is often (though not exclusively) derived from a market for brides to surprise their future husbands by gifting the images on or before their wedding day. Other motivations or inspiration for boudoir photography shoots include anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, weight loss regimes, maternity, other form of body change or alteration (such as breast augmentation or reduction) and for servicemen and women overseas.

This is a collage of some of my favourite shots from a recent boudoir session with some local photo hobbyists. Our model “Lang Sapphire Sky”, as she preferred to be called was quite the natural when it comes to posing, albeit being relatively new to the local modelling scene.

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Well this is a rather interesting arcade game to play. Ever wondered what it was to be like a Danceroid, them cute dancing Japanese girls on NicoNico Douga jiving to J-pop? You find the current arcade dance games that have you stepping on pads, waving at sensors and swiping your fingers on a touch screen to tame for you? Then look no further. MaiMai appears to be working on the principles as the Kinect using a camera and sensors that read your movement and match it on poinrs set by the game. The games BGM selection still seems rather limited but other wise has some of the more popular danceroid covers including Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s Pon Pon song, Tsubasa Hanekawa’s Fuwa Fuwa theme and, of all things, Caramell Dansen. I might actually give this thing a whirl. Maybe some other time.

Just a quick look of some new doo-hickeys that have since piled on to my desk. Some hands on reports of these doodads coming up in the next few.

*Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG EX DG
*Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro
*Blackberry Torch 9800
*JJC LED-48B Macro Ring light
*LVSHI Square Filter holder and GND Filter