Intermezzo #66: The making of "GW-T5030C: The ONE watch".

For this weeks 50 Gs article by Isezumi, we planned a meeting. As he lives in The Hague and I live about 150 km south of him, I thought it was a good idea to meet somewhere halfway. Well Halfway... The only place I could think of was Brewery Emelisse in Kamperland. A travel of 40 killometers for me and 110 for him. His idea was to shoot pics for his article about the GW-T5030C, because I have a good camera. Of course it is also great to meet each other, rather than via messages on WUS, Facebook or WhatApp. I asked my brother Paul to join and Bram thought it was also great to join. There was lunch involved and Emelisse is not only known for good beer, but also for good food. My brother came up with the idea to do a "Making of" See here the result. 

As I had given my old camera (Canon 400D) to my brother when I upgraded to my Canon 7D, he tends to bring that camera, like me, with him everywhere he goes, and so did he now. This is why you now can see "The Making of:" of the photo series I made for Isezumi's article (note: Izesumi has taken a few photo's for his article too).

Bram enjoyed the "Kibbeling" (deep fried chunks of white fish covered with dough) very much. It's one of his favorite foods. 

Group portrait before leaving to Middelburg for some macro shots. 

You might say my brother was born on two wheels. He has been riding motorized two wheelers for ages. No surprise I found this photo among the others. 

Now, that's interesting. I have never seen me drive our car. That's a nice Frogman there. Bought @ Big Camera near Kyoto Central Station two years ago.

As it is impossible to view my complete collection, I asked Izesumi, before he came to me, what he would like to see. "Well, what are your Top 5 watches". Funny thing is that my brother didn't capture the GW-203K-4, DW-5200C and the MRG-121 I brought down. Probably he likes my G-011 and D&R 2 mode...

Now we are getting serious. Macro shots out of hand!

I hope you liked my brother's photo report of how I usually set-up my photography and how we enjoyed a great day. Big thanks to Paul and Isezume for making this possible!

Intermezzo #7: Thinking thinking thinking...

Sometimes it can take a lot of time before I find a new subject to a new 50 Gs article... This week was very hard. The final exam candidates had a party yesterday. I was by car, so I decided to drink cola. Loads of that stuff. For some kind of reason some sorts of cola's have a pretty unpredictable working. Often I get hyperactive, so yet last night. When I came home around 3:00 I went editing photo's for an upcoming review/intermezzo (not sure how to fill in). Completely awake I stepped into bed to not wake up this morning around 9:00. So I started writing a new 50 Gs article. I had a candidate and some ideas.
I already had taken my fully charged PDA with me to bed yesterday and also I had my iPhone within hand reach, so I can perform simple searches on internet. Often I check my own website and G-Shock Perfect Search (GPS). A copy of the G-Shock Perfect Bible was also handy. Well, actually I am at the moment still not finished writing, but most investigation work is over.
Then the next stage. I think 50 Gs articles are worthless without photo's. Actually Eva (my girlfriend) found me like this this afternoon. "What are you doing"? "Thinking for backgrounds". Well, I build an alternative set, after turn off filling the dinner table with logs of wood.
Of course there is always something that won't work in an alternative set-up. Also the light gives sometimes problems. I had to wait until the sun had set. I must say this is a very nice set-up, but it had to wait. There was a favorite program on the television.
So all photo's are finished. In total I transfered 70 photo's to the computer for tomorrows article. I have no idea how much of them I finally will use. I just uploaded 49 photo's in my Photobucket album. Then I have to edit a lot of photo's. For details I make macro shots, where only small parts are needed. Often I try to remember what I was thinking during the photo shoot, while during the photo shoot I am already thinking what I will think if I get it into Photoshop.
The photo's were pretty clear this time. Sometimes I have to edit some dust away or use some effects. I hope you will like tomorrows article.