Posted a few new works to my photography portfolio, I particularly like these:

I really don’t like the new anonymous rating feature at Photo.Net!! And from quickly browsing their site feedback forum, I am not the only one who doesn’t like it!

Will the 3/2 rater please stand up? Anybody who gives less than 3 should be required to leave a critique, that’s how I can learn, or how they can justify their ratings… I’m not terribly upset about it, it’s happened before even without anonymous rating, but I just don’t quite understand the point of this new feature at this great site…

Raw Digital Photo Decoding in Linux

This is very cool, one of these days I’ll download it to look at how RAW compression and encryption work in different manufacturer.

I enjoyed Prof. Chen‘s 18-798 class. It was pretty easy though. But I always likes his teaching approach.

Another site that tries to document RAW formats is OpenRAW.org.

I hate it, this was the second time I got a no-show. This time is worse coz I actually confirmed with the model this afternoon and she said she planned to be here. We had also met up at a coffee shop last Thursday to talk about the shoot.

There might’ve been a good reason, but she used to have “Upcoming: TFCD shoot with Austin photographer Andrew Ng” on her OneTalentSource page, now it doesn’t say that, so I am fairly sure she really just blew me off. WTF…

There was a documentation meeting from 5 to 10pm at work and I had to take off at 7:30 for the shoot. Spent half an hour setting up the studio… I think I’m gonna stick with paid models or paid shoots from now on, if I do TFP I’d take a deposit. This is insane, and extremely frustrating. At least I didn’t rent any equipment or hired any markup artist. jesus…

oh yeah, her name is Elizabeth Austin Schoenfeld, in case any fellow Austin photographer wanna do a photoshoot with her. Proceed with caution.

While I’m at it, the first model that was a no-show was Jennifer Payne, OMP #167440.

So like I said in my last post, I had a couple of hours to spare while waiting for Sherry this afternoon. I had my photo gears with me in the MINI, so I went to Mansfield’s Park again to photograph some peacocks. Last time I went most of the shots were either out of focus or got some camera shakes, sloppy photographer, didn’t pay much attention to the inverse rule with shutter speed and focal length… Plus the 70-200/2.8L at 200 with my camera is actually 320, so at least 1/320 to be safe…

This time I made sure the technical stuff were covered, here’s one of the pics:

Just installed Ecto…

Works pretty damn well, I’m impressed!!