January, 2010Archive for

Testing Out My Nikon D700

I went out to Pasadena on Saturday with a mission to test out my newly acquired Nikon D700 camera.  Let me tell you if you don't know yet, this camera has many awesome features.  It truly is a difference of night and day when comparing the D700 with my D50!  Everybody should know by now that the D700 is a full frame camera, has live view, and I believe everybody also knows that it can go up to 25,600 ISO.  These three I expected to perform awesome which it did.  What I didn't expect (and no revi...

Personal Projects – FocusedOut.com

During downtime and in-between client projects, it's important to keep motivated and keep shooting.  Thus, personal projects.  For me, it's developing my documentary skills.  FocusedOut.com came about because I wanted to document a place that I think is being forgotten...Chinatown.  Sure, it's filled with tourist every weekend but aside from the Chinatown that tourists see, I wanted to document the real Chinatown, the zero generation that call this place their home, the history that's currently ...

MarvinYan.com Officially Re-launched!

The redesign of my logo...DONE! The redesign of my business cards...DONE! The redesign of my site...DONE! Thanks Jen for all your help!  Go check out the website if you haven't yet: Up next... marketing. portfolio building. networking. accounting software.