Completely changed the look for my personal website to a more cleaner and organized design, thanks to the new theme downloaded from the cool guys at SmashingMagazine and Slimmity. The most obvious change is the homepage where previously, it goes straight to the blog but now it is separated into another page – making the website looking more like a portfolio website (as I intended to do in the first place).

Other news, back programming Flash again after many months of hibernation from Actionscript.  Since its been awhile now and I’m forgetting how AS2 looks like, so decided to move to As3 instead and to my surprised, it was quite easy. Too easy that I think I’m not gonna code in AS2 anymore :p

The third version is now on its way. I’ve been meaning to upgrade all my files to AS3(Actionscript 3.0) since last year but was reluctant I was thinking that I’m gonna need to learn this new programming language all over again. But to my surprise, it wasn’t that bad after all. In fact,  its easier to learn and so much faster(in performance) and cleaner coding style(just love the OOP style)

So far here’s what I’ve done: http://jimisulaiman.com/example/15022010/test01.html

They grow up so fast :) ! These are shots taken between November to December this year.  Taken using 50mm lens f/1.4 on a Nikon D5000 body (mostly wide opened).  Post editing using Lightroom 2.

You can download the Lightroom2 presets available at the bottom of this post.

Download Lightroom 2 Presets used for the above images here: JS_LR_Presets.zip (74)

It’s now the end of the year! Time really flies and it feels that I haven’t accomplished any of this year’s plan(not that I have anything written anyway).  It’s the December break now and I’m out of office for 2 weeks.  Since now that I have a little free time, I feel obligated to update this blog.

No web project (except in the office) going on but I did receive some proposal. So sorry people but I really don’t have the time and commitment to handle one at the moment. The only project that i would take right now will be those free ones that don’t have any datelines – personally challenging and fun with no strings attached or obliged to someone. I do have some projects to go but knowing how a procrastinator I am, it’s gonna be a while before I would start any.

Got myself a 50mm lens for my DSLR recently.  This lens produced a much sharper and amazing depth of field(ref image above) that I hardly use my 18mm-55mm anymore. A bit pricey then its older model  but well worth the money. Don’t be surprised if I update my Flickr more than this website. These days I’ve been taking a lot oh photos during my leisure time, can’t wait to take the family out on a vacation!

Well that’s all for now. Hopefully the next post will be on some work or project :p

The URL of this website has been renamed to  jimisulaiman.com. The domain name feels right this time – personal and simple. The old one sounded more like a company or a product to me.

What’s up with more work on photography lately? I’m not trying to advertise myself that I offer photo shoot services or trying out to be a Pros or anything like that. This is totally just a hobby, a personal leisure of trying out something new. I’m still doing websites every now and then – two are actually on its way.

Photography has becoming very addictive and out of control. Why? Learning its art: how to take good compositions, the challenge of getting those tack sharp photos, image manipulation, the handling of dSLR and so much more -  so do expect to see more posts on photography (a lot) anytime soon. I still got tonnes of unused disk space for this hosting so why not?