[Hervé]

hey great Ben... super sharp photos !...

[Tora_2097]

thanks @ everyone, photography is still pretty new to me and I am enjoying it greatly. (It renders so fast, and everything is already modeled and textured!)

@Magnus: Yep, it's very expensive. I believe the Canon counterpart to be roughly in the same price range. But 2.8 is 2.8... although I could read in your exifs that you are using a 70-200 f4 and it is supposed to be extremely sharp. Your photos certainly look sharp to me, you have some great portraiture and wildlife shots on flickr!

Ben

[Maximus3D]

Heh, yes it's all modeled in infinite detail and textured the same way. Lighting is already predefined. All the ingredients are there, you just have to know what to do with them..

Yep it's horribly expensive which is the reason why i went with the cheaper f/4 version instead until i can afford the bigdaddy 2,8 lens. However i have a 1,4x extender on my 70-200 to increase it's range a bit more, it's a cheap and good way to make your tele last longer. It works very well. Btw, thank you very much.
It has been a while since i posted any photos here and i thought i would share a experiment i shot recently at home. It was the worst subject ever, selfportraits. I hate shooting these things but it's something that has to be done from time to time. I built a setup with the external flash bouncing off a umbrella and then a reflector on the opposite side of me. All these selfportraits were shot using my 7D and Canon's 100mm macrolens.



/ Magnus

[NicoR44]

Hey Magnus !

you look a bit like my "old" chef!
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&rlz=1 ... 97&bih=739

[Hervé]

Max, you're a real actor....

[NicoR44]

Yeah, he's got the head for it!

[Maximus3D]

Haha, you guys are funny i still hate shooting selfportraits so this will be the first and last time you ever see me like this.
Your old chef (boss ?) has that typical middleaged generic look where the hairline for some reason tries to run away from you.. unfortuntely i suffer from the same fate.

/ Magnus

[NicoR44]

Yeah, he's a cool guy btw, he is the "head" chef in the restaurant I worked for (actually patron cuisinier) : http://www.hetkasteelvanrhoon.nl/default.asp?page_id=15
He's well known on TV here, and he's also a master chef

[Maximus3D]

Very nice job he got, i'm sure he can cook a couple of tasty dishes but i had no idea you worked in a restaurant, what did you do there Nico ?

/ Magnus

[NicoR44]

Well, I worked as a sous chef in a few very nice Michelin star restaurants for about 15 years, untill 2000.
After that I started working for my fathers company, he passed away one and a half year ago since that time my brother and I took over the company (luckily not without success)

[Maximus3D]

Sweet! you must be pretty talented chef Nico i envy you although i have some skills in the kitchen they can't match yours. It's a tragedy about your fathers passing i do hope all will run well with your simulation business. If i could afford one of those i would get me one, it would do wonders for my X-Plane and FSX + others.

/ Magnus

[NicoR44]

The reason for stopping was my daughter being born, and because my father asked me to join, it was a very difficult decision, because cooking is a big passion of mine, and indeed I am good at it
But I wouldn't have wanted to miss working those nine years together with my father, his dead came sudden, he was ill for only 3 months before he went, he was really a hard working man, and worked hard even in bed till one week before he went
It really changed the way I look at everything... shit.. even now it makes me cry.. I'm so proud of him

This is him third on the left, I'm standing second on the right and my brother first on the right:



here is the text that goes with that picture:
From left to right: Walter Berkouwer, Project Manager ASTI (Aerospace Software & Technologies Institute - Delft University of Technology), Meine Oosten director ASTI, Curt Roth Sr. director and founder TRC Simulators, Prof. Bob Mulder, Delft Aerospace University, Curt Roth jr. Technical director TRC Simulators, Hubert Roth, Commercial director TRC Simulators.

The Dutch Aerospace University has received the FNPT1 (JAA) Certification for its TRC472 trainer. The certification is similar to the FAA level 6 requirements.

The simulator is created using the range of realistic Simkits instruments.

To achieve this certification, real flights have been carried out with a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, equipped with measuring instruments, force recorders and video equipment. The measuring results have been incorporated in the TRC472F flight dynamics model.

The flight dynamics of the TRC472F simulator are therefore extremely close to the real Cessna 172 Skyhawk.

The instruments used in the certified TRC472F flight simulator are available for flight simulator companies planning to build a certifiable simulator.
Just check for the instruments with “commercial license”.

[Maximus3D]

I can understand why you stopped your chef job to work with your father, and it was probably a wise decision no matter how you look at it. I'm sure your father appreciated your left your job to work with him for nine years, it's just a shame it ended that abruptly.
You and your brother both has the looks of your father.

That text content is pretty big business, congratulations!

/ Magnus

[djflod]

another one from me

[adman]

Hello, thought this was borage but nothing I search looks like it.
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