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Lunch with Bob at Chica's was nice. Homemade flour tortillas stuffed with fajita-style grilled chicken breast and melted jack cheese. Quesadillas kick ass... no doubt about it. I have had some mail problems this afternoon that prevented productivity. Work has been stacking up and though I thought I was going to get out of here early today in light of my having to work tomorrow, it appears I'm in it for the long haul. I had some time while my mailbox was being migrated across the country, so Raymund and I strolled down for a cuppa joe and some snippety snap. His fisheye is growing on me. Uh. That sounded almost pornographic. Anyhoo, I was really feeling lazy and didn't have a lot of time, so all the shots were handheld and with no fill. I spot metered the hot spots, locked the exposure, recomposed, focused, manually added some exposure compensation, and pulled the trigger. The bottom line: I needed fill flash. I would like to come back and reshoot this scene on a weekend where there are no cars and I have time to set up proper fill and compose the shots better from an artistic standpoint. Here is a 5 minute process using my shitty laptop with a miserable out of calibration LCD screen. When I get home and can really take a better look at the RAW files, I may post an improved version... until then: I'm all zipped up on caffeine now and need to start weeding through these config changes. The weekend is almost here!