It's been an eventful week, with VAT returns, a new tech edit project and a very sick Macbook Pro. Still there was a few goods things. My new lights arrived Monday so I can add 2 Elinchrom BX400's, 2 reflectors with grids and a Maxisoft 70cm beauty dish to my lighting collection. Foto-Arte.co.uk finally came through after 8 weeks as my 2 striplights landed in also.I used the striplights for a client on Wed night in a local gym. I'm quite impressed with them, considering they came in around €90 inc carriage each.I'm now on the lookout for an Elinchrom speedring for my octabox. I'm dying to try it using the silver deflector that came with the beauty dish with no diffusion for a big silver dish look. Although I wasn't considering ordering, between the dish and the BX set, I have the silver, gold and translucent deflectors. Handy!

Here's my fav shot from the Gym, complete with texture layer.

Anyone based around Galway should note that the 2nd Galway Strobist meet is Sunday 28th Sept at 1pm. Location is the underground carpark at Bodkins Bar on the Dublin Road.My Macbook Pro is very sick. The screen is constantly redrawing in blocks. While pretty much everything is backed up, I'm still taking no chances with it. Currently I've got it running in Target Disk mode and am copying everything off it. There's about 15 mins left after over 2 hours of copying..