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Looking into going into the Ilford Delta films big time, since I loved how they scanned even after I accidentally over exposed them. 

Also preparing for Sabaku Con 2014 here in ABQ, NM. As a staffer, I have a lot to do, but I like to get some of my photo game going with the cosplayers there. Then a short time later is going to be Anime Expo 2014! Serious photo tasking there, I have only so much film and time. Going to plan shoot list A, then plan B then to Plan C to get the art going! 

I'll post some more stuff very soon during this weekend, and going to use this awesome scanning software, Vuescan, on my photos. I tried a trial version, and I loved it, now going to the deep end with it. 

I'll see you soon!  

Everytime I use this camera, I get clear results. 

It's like another tool that I can show my vision to the world. 

I like that.

The tonality is just awesome, it makes the Sony Alpha 900 look like a child's toy. After doing some scans, and figuring out how to get the best dpi. Then you lock in it and just see things just pop out at you when you to close ups less than 5m. The background melts slowly then into a nice colored paint of light. It's awesome.

Handheld at 1/60 is OK, but at 1/30 or slower, need tripod. The mirror lock-up is awesome on tripod and the "T" mode is really great in practice. Waist level finder is still awesome to see at night, and also in daylight. The focus can confuse you into thinking that it's in focus when your subject is at 7m, but it's not. Lock in at infinity, and choose smallest aperture. 

More photos coming soon!    

From the time of June 2012, I been to ALA 2012, Fanime 2012 and then ACE 2012, I faced a wall of my own doing. 

I look back on the progression, from hundreds of con photos, to 100, to 80 then to 24. I had seen the elite, I saw the progression from pretty unknown cosplayers, to internationally known in front of my eyes. I saw great people move on to other places. I felt I was left behind as all of them moved to places I could not go. I resented it badly and I had to keep up with those if I wanted to stay in the place of cosplay photography. 

But then, in the summer 2012, I decided that I was in a different calling of those. I dreamt that I can bring my vision out here, at home with things that people did not associate with cosplay photography. Knowing the lost arts of yore, no classes, no seminars, all of my self taught ways. That way, I became myself as I am becoming to a person who follows his own vision. It might not seem like much. I know that I like what I do, it's not easy, safe or even economical. Those don't matter to me, I just do it to be happy.

Others feel the satisfaction of being with the "in" crowd that I so wanted in. I lived hundreds of miles away and in the summer of 2012, I contemplated that I should move out of state. Then, I came to, saw and talked quite a while with a certain person. I realized on what I had here was much better then was "out there." I read up a lot about "Acres of Diamonds" and other books on ideas. The great things that are nearby and you can be happy and successful just right outside your front door. You never settle for anything that does not line up with your dreams and happiness. I found mine as a New Mexican, and as tireless man of supporting my fellows right at home. 

I want to bring the inspirations from afar, home, so we can become inspirations for those who others will seek to call upon.