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Changes Implemented, New Blogs Was Born

Victor Augusteo — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:08:31 +0000

How do you do?

Lately I have been thinking on how to move this blog forward effectively. As you know, I mentioned that I will be splitting my contents and make it easier for my readers to enjoy my work. It has been done.

My future fitness & martial arts articles will be posted on:
Martial Craft
My future personal development, philosophy, and minimalism will be posted on:
Light Mantis

This blog will purely host photography articles from now on.

What about the old posts?
The old posts thats should have been moved to the new blog, will stay here. After the consideration that links has been established in many places. If I move the posts to the new blog, there will be huge portion of this blog that is 404-ed.
There will be a link on the new blog to the old articles. I will establish that shortly.

Thank you for staying with me

photo credit

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Upcoming Changes With My Blog

Victor Augusteo — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:02:42 +0000

I am going to divide this blog into three separate blogs. I understand that people who loves my photography articles might be turned off by fitness stuff. As people who enjoys my fitness stuff might not like my philosophy articles or my thoughts.

This blog (augusteo.com) will host my thoughts, experiences, philosophy, and personal development articles.

The fitness and martial arts articles will be hosted on another website (still under-development). I already have the domain name, all thats left is designing the blog and transferring the articles.

The photography articles will also be hosted on another separate website. This I still need to find a good domain name.

I hope by doing this, I am reaching more into each niche of readers. Of course you can subscribe to all three if you want

You will be kept updated. No worries.

photo source

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New Theme

Victor Augusteo — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:02:38 +0000

For god knows how many times I came out from hiatus, one of the thing that I always do to my blog is change the theme.

Its like cutting your hair after break ups.

This time, its thesis theme with the ‘Simplicity’ skin by wp-blogger

Oh, I just redesigned my portfolio website. Its super awesome with flash and all that now.

Photo source

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Restart, New Chapter, New Mission

Victor Augusteo — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:48:23 +0000

I’m going to be honest with all of you. My blog isn’t what really represents me. And it maybe is the main factor of me letting it goes into comatose.

Things will be different.

As the people who live close to me knows, I’m a martial arts maniac. Literally maniac. Not one day of my life is without some type of practice.

I’m a bigger martial arts nut than a photography nut.

So why do I blog about photography in the first place?

Because I didn’t think that martial arts can be explained with words. Or rather, my ability as a writer is not sufficient to describe the gentle flowing kicks or exploding punches.

My writing ability still sucks, I know, but I’m improving. As will this blog. It will represents much more about me. Things that I can share to you, my readers.

No no no, I will not post some random obscure facts about myself that you can’t gain anything from. That part is for Twitter.

So, finally, you can expect me to write about 60% Martial Arts, 30% Photography, 10% random philosophical stuff.

And lastly, I just finished reading “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”. It is fucking fucking awesomely awesome. One of the best book I’ve ever read.

Moving on to “The Girl Who Played With Fire”

Ciao.

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I’m still here!

Victor Augusteo — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:40:46 +0000

In case you are wondering.

I have been working on a new project of mine, a video blog to review iPhone and iPad apps.

Come check it out at http://iiReview.tv

And as for this blog, I will be updating it soon

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My Journey, My Beginning, My Story

Victor Augusteo — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:52:29 +0000

Sofia @ Imprisonment - one of my best work.

I have been getting a lot of question lately about the story and origin of my photography. Some of my friends even made wild assumption that I’ve been doing this for more than five years. Thanks for the compliment though

This blog post is just to share the story of how I started. And maybe give you an idea how to start as well.

Pre-Manual

As a teenager, before I went to university, I always liked to take travel photos. It helps that my mom and dad loves to travel. We have visited many countries in Europe and South East Asia. Every-time we are travelling, I am always the one who hold the cameras and snap the photos. We were still using some old compact camera. I’m not sure if we still have it or not.

On our last trip (I believe to China) my parents purchased the Canon Powershot S3 IS, which I will be using for much of the time before DSLR.

My parent’s love of travel just instilled on me. After I come to Australia to continue my higher education, I joined the Monash Photography Club. There I learned much from fellow members and the workshops that the club offer.

I still remember the first trip that I went to with MPC. It was a trip to the Yarra Valley Winery trip. Everybody was carrying some huge Nikon or Canon DSLR. I kinda feel envious, but heck, I dont know how they really work and if they make a difference to the picture that I take.

That was 2007.

I continued to use the compact for the remaining of the year. It has served me well. But I have no idea how to operate the camera on manual control until later in the mid 2008.

At December 2007-second year of university, I bought my first DSLR sponsored by my parents. Thanks again Mom and Dad. Its really great to have parents who support your hobby.

I researched long and hard before deciding which camera to buy. Ended up with the awesome D80. How I research will be on another post.

When I bought the camera, I really have no idea how to use manual controls. I just put the camera to auto and started shooting like how most of us started.

Then at January 2008, one event changed my perspective.

The Evolution

One day when I was visiting my hometown in Indonesia, one of my old friend called me to ask if she can use my car to drive to the beach. Of course I asked her why she wanted to go to the beach for.

People who doesn’t grow up near the beach will have a hard time understanding this, but we Indonesian live on the equator. We have massive natural beaches. We have played at the beach since we were babies. The beach is HOT. The sun ray can burn your skin in matter of minutes. Besides, the ladies in Asia loves their skin to be fair, not tan. So usually they go the the beach wearing some protective clothing. Totally different with the western way of beach loving.

We usually go there only during sunset when the sun is not too strong as to avoid burned skin.

Anyway, back to the story. She told me she was having a photoshoot with her cousin. I was surprised. I didn’t know you can have photoshoot at the beach. At that time, my mind was still imagining photoshoot as the glamour and high-class process that can only be conducted in the studio by professional people. Shows you how amateur I was

I agreed to her request, but in return, I got to go to the shoot with her. It was a mind opening experience.

Model: Febiola - The first model (well, friend) I've ever shot

The photographer at that time (Eric) was also visiting our hometown for the holiday. He was good. He bring a friend to hold a mirror – which acts as the reflector.

I didn’t know what to do, so I just put the camera on auto and started shooting her. Eric then asked me, “What settings are you using?”. I was dumbfounded. I said I have no idea what he is talking about. He asked me, “Are you using auto to shoot this?”. I said yes.

Then he give me a 20 second crash course on how to set the camera to manual and give me his approximate setting, and continued shooting.

My result wasn’t that good. It is not the main point though. I was having fun on my first photoshoot of my life.

From there, my love for modelling and portraiture grows.

Thanks Eric and Febiola.

The Love Drama

Linda @ Tanjung Belandang Beach

Couple of days after the photoshoot, my friend invited me to visit the local school. She was giving a dance class for an upcoming end-of-year school performance. I was getting quite bored at my hometown having nothing to do, so I agreed.

There was some fifteen female students dancing with her. All of them was of teenager, probably fifteen to sixteen years old.

Only one struck my attention. It was the one who becomes my next girlfriend for the next couple of months. The story is for another time

Linda @ Hutan Kota

Fortunately, she loves to pose for the camera. We went to numerous places together for photoshoots. I was practicing, and she was having fun.

I learned a lot of posing and camera setting in that month, more than anything I’ve ever learned.

People said its easy to get from zero to eighty percent, but it takes decades to bring eighty to a hundred. I was having my zero to eighty moment.

Too bad at March 2008 I needed to get back to Australia to study, and she has to stay back there in Indonesia.

Linda @ Tanjung Belandang Beach

Farewell, Linda.

Enter MPC

I mentioned that I joined MPC since 2007 before. It was not until I march 2008 that I started seriously learning photography.

We had some really good workshops going on. My personal favourite was the studio workshop, of course.

It was a tutorial room. We had to move all the chairs and desks to the side. It was my first time working with lightstands, 300w lights, octoboxes, umbrellas, etc.

You can imagine how excited I was.

Again, my photos turned out not that great. But it was still salvageable. Its the experience that matters.

I'm sorry I forgot your name o' beautiful MPC model.

We learned and learned together, we bonded in photography. I made some really great friends in MPC.

Future Photoshoots

Outside MPC, I also organised my own photoshoot with friends. You don’t need to spend money to practice your portraiture.

Had lots of experience with a lot of very nice models. Thanks to you guys I was able to get to where I am now.

Oops, Its already more than thousand words, and I was aiming for mere five-hundreds words only.

Until next time.

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My Interview on Rantang (Indonesian Language)

Victor Augusteo — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:49:41 +0000

If you speak Indonesian, check out this interview on Rantang by Dirgayuza.

The topic is ‘Part Time in Melbourne’

Click here for the interview.

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New Portfolio Website

Victor Augusteo — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:38:09 +0000

Behold! My new portfolio!

Yeap, I just redesigned my whole portfolio website. It used to be flash based, now its jquery based.

Mainly because the old flash website doesn’t play on iPhone or iPad . And flash is slow, and it hogs the memory, and i’m using a lot of ands.

anyway, let me know what you think, and how does it look on your screen.

Vics out.

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New Studio, New HD DVR, and future d700

Victor Augusteo — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:22:22 +0000

Victor Augusteo’s Vlog
Episode #2

- How I got a cheap studio space
- New cheap 1080p DVR that cost $140 only
- Cold call from my dad asking if I need a new camera, SHOCKING!
- Possible future workshop

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World of Warcraft, Linchpin, Crush It, 30 DPI and video blog

Victor Augusteo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:34:17 +0000

World of Warcraft, Linchpin, Crush It, 30 DPI and video blog from Victor Augusteo on Vimeo.

Victor’s Vlog episode #1

Download this video: Right Click Here and Save (83 MB)

Covers:
- Why my blog hasn’t been updated
- How I changed my mind around
- Books that help me get back
- The future of my blog and projects

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http://facebook.com/augusteo

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