Going to take a break, Happy New Year Everyone ^_^
Breakfast @ Kenyalang Noodle Expert
We woke up early last weekend on the 2nd day of Christmas going through our pre-planned breakfast the day before. Reason i wanted to go there because I had this idea about a video that I've long wanted to try to make on the subject of morning breakfast at Kenyalang. The other reason being it's quite some time since I last actually went outside to eat something with Joanna. Though I've moved away from Kenyalang since more than a decade ago, it will always hold a special place in my heart. Particularly because my aunt still lives there and coincidentally Joanna too. The place is quite unique and so distinct it is very Kuching-esque itself entirely.
2010 Curtain Call
As the year of 2010 draws to a close, I took a few days off from work to have some serious flash back on all that had happen over the pass 11 and 3/4 solid months. Naturally the year of the Tiger haven't been calm as quite a number of rather unfortunate things happened culminating in quite a number of downer over the course of the year. Putting those aside, there are a few positive point, whereby I started to think and plan what to do with my future.
As I gradually retires myself from the compare game that the current society holds so dear in their heart nowadays, I'm starting to find a more important meaning in life. Being close with Him made me felt that it is my obligation to redeem my past mistake and made it into a life long goal to discover His Grace's Love. I thank God solely for leading me into the light and bless me in abundance of faith and love, whom I believe which is why I met Joanna along the way near the end of 2009. Of course my family will have a more key role in my life than ever before as I start to accept the fact that living in a bloated promise of a superiority complex is nothing more than just a silly self destructive behavior. God made us in His image, so we should mirror his Grace compassion in every way.
Here are some of the selective street photos I've taken in 2010 with the 400D and 50D. Cheers for 2011.
As I gradually retires myself from the compare game that the current society holds so dear in their heart nowadays, I'm starting to find a more important meaning in life. Being close with Him made me felt that it is my obligation to redeem my past mistake and made it into a life long goal to discover His Grace's Love. I thank God solely for leading me into the light and bless me in abundance of faith and love, whom I believe which is why I met Joanna along the way near the end of 2009. Of course my family will have a more key role in my life than ever before as I start to accept the fact that living in a bloated promise of a superiority complex is nothing more than just a silly self destructive behavior. God made us in His image, so we should mirror his Grace compassion in every way.
Here are some of the selective street photos I've taken in 2010 with the 400D and 50D. Cheers for 2011.
Pandan Tang Yuen
Its the Winter Solstice Celebration once again, had it for 2 days now. A day earlier as an offering for my grandparents that left our family not so long ago. And again another time today for our own families. First time we actually tried Pandan one. Here is a little video about it. Missed out the making as it was already prepared when I came home from work today.
Kuching Christmas Parade 2010
The Yuletide spirit filled Kuching city on Saturday night when about 4,000 Christians shared their Christmas joy in a colourful parade. About 20 Methodist & Catholics churches in the city jointly held the parade which started at Jubilee Ground, Padungan Road.
From the point of view of Chin Daw Methodist contingent which happens to lead the parade this year.
Lomo Inspired
I went to visit Terence at adorable the other day and heard a lot of good things about lomography from him after he visited a lomo shop located inside one jaya shopping mall. The sales person is very courteous and quite helpful in explaining function and features of a lomo camera and lomography in general. I must admit back in the heydays of using my dad's film SLR, I was wishing for a camera with an auto exposure instead of just twiddling the shutter speed and aperture and loading a fix ISO film and pretty much do a lot of guess work on the photos taken. Now that I've tried DSLR, the cycle of human curiosity turns right back at film photography. In this case a lomo.
Unlike conventional film camera, lomo is relatively low cost in production, notice that the keyword here is "relatively low cost in production" but it doesn't mean its a low cost construction. The lens are usually constructed from plastic and it is this type of construction that renders each and every lomo camera unique (no two lomo camera is the same, even if it's the same model and same batch production). Aside from the overtly saturated, vignetting ,off-kilter exposure and even crazy blurring characteristic, lomography also exhibit a technique call multi exposure whereby you can just put a layer of layer of images onto a single frame of film overlaying one another.
Back to the lomo shop, the brand they carry mostly is the Gakken TLR 35mm which basically is an assemble yourself concept twin lens reflex lomo camera. Other brand on display are the Diana and also Holga, both are quite reputable in the lomo world. So if your a lomo freak, do check out lomography shop at one jaya shopping mall. Check out adorable gift shop nearby while your at it :)
Now curiosity got the better of me, so I decided to try to emulate the Gakken TLR output on a digital jpeg file. After 4 hours of trying, it's safe to say that I agree fully with the salesman that lomo is unique itself and the amount of photoshop work done on a digital will never beat the original lomo feel.
Below is the work flow that I use on the 8 photos taken during my early Hanoi trip.
We were on the van going to Halong Bay i think, a drive through the city is a great way to capture people in their element. Not being noticed by them does helps a lot.
When I was here, I only could think back on the Vietnam wars. Probably too influence by Terence obsession with war movies. Her missing leg immediately captured my imagination that she is a must capture.
The streets of Hanoi are pretty much devoid of colors as it was heavily laced with mud just about everywhere. A spur of the moment came the moment a colorful object show up in front of the viewfinder. Ladies and gentleman, we have color.
Although Vietnam is slowly recovering from the horrors of war, did you know their broadband services is way faster than our national "pride", streamyx. Doesn't that feel like a foot up the ass ?
The whole thing of having a barber at the pedestrian walkway just screams "Photo Me" from 1 km away.
Pair an entry level with a half decent lens, you can get ooo lah lah photos too. Body tends to come and go but lens stay forever. Choose wisely. The three frame portraiture work of a single person draws my attention. I was quite hungry at that time, but the chau pai fried rice make up for it.
The 55-250mm IS was one of the best budget telephoto ever created by Canon. It's equivalent to the 50mm 1.8 dubbed nifty fifty while the former is known as nifty two fifty. I've sold 2 of the best budget lens by Canon throughout my time using EOS, the 55-250mm IS and the 85mm F1.8 both of which I quite regret on the later stages.
A gold fish on a sink. Classic.
Unlike conventional film camera, lomo is relatively low cost in production, notice that the keyword here is "relatively low cost in production" but it doesn't mean its a low cost construction. The lens are usually constructed from plastic and it is this type of construction that renders each and every lomo camera unique (no two lomo camera is the same, even if it's the same model and same batch production). Aside from the overtly saturated, vignetting ,off-kilter exposure and even crazy blurring characteristic, lomography also exhibit a technique call multi exposure whereby you can just put a layer of layer of images onto a single frame of film overlaying one another.
Back to the lomo shop, the brand they carry mostly is the Gakken TLR 35mm which basically is an assemble yourself concept twin lens reflex lomo camera. Other brand on display are the Diana and also Holga, both are quite reputable in the lomo world. So if your a lomo freak, do check out lomography shop at one jaya shopping mall. Check out adorable gift shop nearby while your at it :)
Now curiosity got the better of me, so I decided to try to emulate the Gakken TLR output on a digital jpeg file. After 4 hours of trying, it's safe to say that I agree fully with the salesman that lomo is unique itself and the amount of photoshop work done on a digital will never beat the original lomo feel.
Below is the work flow that I use on the 8 photos taken during my early Hanoi trip.
- Photo selection
- Import photo into Photoshop CS5
- Create a fake and impossible depth of field using the Lens Blur filter and masking away the portion that I wanted to make it sharp.
- Export to desktop
- Import the edited photo into Lightroom
- Applied various presets to turn the color of the photo into extreme saturation.
- Added a fake vignetting using lightroom
- Export to a folder
- Import into Photoshop CS5 again for watermarking.
We were on the van going to Halong Bay i think, a drive through the city is a great way to capture people in their element. Not being noticed by them does helps a lot.
When I was here, I only could think back on the Vietnam wars. Probably too influence by Terence obsession with war movies. Her missing leg immediately captured my imagination that she is a must capture.
The streets of Hanoi are pretty much devoid of colors as it was heavily laced with mud just about everywhere. A spur of the moment came the moment a colorful object show up in front of the viewfinder. Ladies and gentleman, we have color.
Although Vietnam is slowly recovering from the horrors of war, did you know their broadband services is way faster than our national "pride", streamyx. Doesn't that feel like a foot up the ass ?
The whole thing of having a barber at the pedestrian walkway just screams "Photo Me" from 1 km away.
Pair an entry level with a half decent lens, you can get ooo lah lah photos too. Body tends to come and go but lens stay forever. Choose wisely. The three frame portraiture work of a single person draws my attention. I was quite hungry at that time, but the chau pai fried rice make up for it.
The 55-250mm IS was one of the best budget telephoto ever created by Canon. It's equivalent to the 50mm 1.8 dubbed nifty fifty while the former is known as nifty two fifty. I've sold 2 of the best budget lens by Canon throughout my time using EOS, the 55-250mm IS and the 85mm F1.8 both of which I quite regret on the later stages.
A gold fish on a sink. Classic.
Merry Christmas Everyone
created on photoshop CS5
Merry Christmas everyone and happy holiday. Enjoy each day as if its your last, so we all will have no regrets later.
a little bit of something
it's times like these I wish I had the 70-200. will put it on a 2012 agenda.
the color version came out rather bland. black and white looks better.
for those who like to moan how tough their job is.
diarrhea marathon ?
Praise the Lord! For He is good.
so this is Christmas, what have you done ? another year over, a new one just begun.
long time no shoot wide open.
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A620 Macro Function
Compact camera are quite the work these days, boasting from Av, Tv, P and even an M mode. Not to mention that some pretty decent macro capabilities. By compact, I'm referring to those p & s camera that aren't in the same category as the recently release S95, G12 or even Lumix LX5 but more towards the A series. I remember clearly my first camera, a prosumer S3 IS which I really loved a lot but had to give up as I'm trying to acquire the EOS 400D back then. The S3 had 0 cm macro function and also super duper long zoom and also IS. It was definitely my first love camera. Since I've sold it to my friend, I'd still get to see it once in a while. :) The photos below are taken at Kenyalang on a Power Shot A620. Edited with Lightroom and final touched up and layout designed using Photoshop CS5. Cheers.
It's a tea leaf metal canister holder.
Decide to go black and white as the metal canister is silver and devoid of any other color.
Some sort of edible mini berries. :)
It's a tea leaf metal canister holder.
Decide to go black and white as the metal canister is silver and devoid of any other color.
Some sort of edible mini berries. :)
Macro with DCR250
Took these back in November, totally forgot about it until I start doing some housekeeping on the lightroom catalog. Used a Raynox DCR-250 mounted on a Tammy 28-75mm. All shot are taken at around 1pm at Kenyalang Park at my aunt's backyard. She's got great green hands :) Cheers.
50% magnification.
75% Magnification.
100% Magnification
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Fancy and craved for a different kind of ice cream ? More like snow ice to be exact. Look no further than iGlool which is located at Jalan Wan Alwi beside Da Light at King Centre and same row with the Sarawak goverment Banci division. Blue and white is the theme here, so just about everything else is in blue and white. Heard Joanna say the ice is imported from Japan ? Interesting. IGlool also spot a nice touch screen interface machine for food ordering, but fret not if you have touch screen phobia syndrome, you can still do the conventional menu to waitress order. :) The decoration from QQ penguin to flowers in jar sums up the mood of this place, ..... cool.
Ah yes ... Christmas is coming.
Oreo Snow Ice. Surprisingly not sweet as expected so its easy on the tongue.
Plain chocolate, ok ok. Was hoping for more chocolate taste.
iGlool looks like a great place to gather and chat away. They have their own website at www.iglool.com. So click away :)
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