Archive for the ‘My Photography’ Category
Kitchen Sunset
The most beautiful things in life sometimes appears at the least expected place.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Old
Old… and young – in both spirits and heart. (Okay, sometimes not the mentality, but I can live with that;D)
Grandpa’s facial contours and his beautifully imperfect facial hairs never fail to unfaze me in many ways. At age 75 he’s still managing the household so adequately, never fail to replenish food supplies and go around the vicinity for the best buys, saving the cents and dollars to support the whole family ever since Mom was young. A skilled carpenter, I remember. He collects potential furnitures and stuffs that are thrown away by people, and reuses them, or make them into cabinets and racks. I remembered him making a whiteboard stand for me when I was young, and even painting them in vibrant colours. Even when he was still in his sixties, he repaints the whole house every lunar new year.
Been living with my grandparents for the most of my nearly 2 months worth of vacation, and I really loved it there. The love they give is different in every single way and there’s always something to laugh about and tease of.
Thank god for grandparents. Although they were the reason I don’t want to work and earn the ‘potential’ extra pocket money during the vacations, what I get in return is priceless.
Living in the moment, that’s what I call it.
Although I bet I’ll spend ALOT of time missing the days and the people here when I go back home… and school.
Respect.
It’s a very sad thing to not be able to publish the previous post I’ve written. Basically it’s a DSLR VS iPhone post out my experiences photographing babies – Jovianne to be specific.
But oh well! Respect is more important and the mother disagreed for the pictures I posted along with my post to be viewed by the public, so I had to oblige. Not my child, not my say.
It’s just a super sad thing for me aiyoooooo.
So wasted. My efforts. Gone. To. Waste.
Please get the password from me, those who knows me. And take a look at what I’ve concocted in this PRIVATE POST.
Respectful and melancholy GEKTENG outta here!
Change is the only constant.
And I’m here to make my life more difficult by changing more things. As you noticed, I imported my WHOLE Blogger archive here to WordPress, making this my blog with everything and anything and all that. The photography and journal parts… I’m trying my best to categorise them… but Argh, I have more than 400 posts to categorise and I don’t think I can do them all.
Yes, this is the part for making my life more difficult.
So til now I’ve sorted posts from 2011 onwards, and I DON’T THINK I’LL BE CONTINUING. Just read according to the archive if you want, since I’ve only started my Photog WordPress blog since 2011, so the bulk of my photography posts should be posted in this current year which I’ve categorised already.
So… YEAH.
Enjoy while I make more changes. Hahaha!
Close Ups: Kawai
Okay, I guess I didn’t post about the tragic day when I bought a wide angle and macro lens filter. I called the day tragic because I regretted my purchase almost immediately. Well I thought it will be a nice tool to help me try shooting macro, but patience is one thing I lack and am still working on. But what can I do then. To make sure I don’t waste the money I eventually researched about macro photography and decided to set up my good ol’ tripod and Nikon to give it a try. Not forgetting the macro filter though!
Setting my camera to Manual and hiking my aperture value to f/11-ish, and not to forget the crucial element that is producing these shots below and that helps me train my patience/waiting time is the shutter speed of 3s-ish. Boy, oh boy, it’s not just one click and you get it, but it’s after various angles, shifts, zooms, focusing and refocusing and re-re-re focusing before you get that perfect shot. I literally lie back in bed(which is just in front of my piano actually.) during these precious moments when my camera worked its magic.
And poof! Here it is, my wonderful companion and music friend, ‘teacher’, buddy, whatever you call it. Let’s see if you can see how dusty my piano is after abandoning it for a few months weeks.
I actually wanted to shoot more, although the experience left me sweating and all that I kind of decided that Macro photography is fun! With a tripod though. I tried once without ANY tips or anything related to macro and I got shitty shots. I guess you can tell that’s when I started to regret the purchase. But oh well, this opportunity of trying new things eventually made me learn something!
Gonna try this again tomorrow or the next day. Macro shots just makes every little thing look so amazingly… not themselves. Haha!
Long time.
Yep, it’s been a long time since I posted anything. One week and 2 days, to be exact.
No, I’m not going to continue my post a day project. For good or for worse. Heh.
But I’m glad more will be coming up! Argh, the careless side of me decided to show itself yesterday when I forgot to bring my prove for the change of HDD for my Fujitsu. There goes all my free softwares. AGAIN. Gotta go back to school again to get it the next time. Oh, I wonder when will that happen.
Well, whatever. I think I’ll just get the trail version of CS5 first. I was just having so much fun playing with my photos using the new content-aware fill feature and all that silly stuff.
Actuallt I have lots of photos to post! These past few months I went to the National Museum of Singapore, Tong Chai Medical Hall where I shot some candids and environmental portraits and not to forget some portraits I took during the Chinese New Year. I hope there’s more to come since it’s the holidays! Shall go for a photowalk some time later. I’m thinking of Fort Canning… Or maybe Woodlands Waterfront which is just a bus ride away from my house. Okay two bus rides.
I’ll see…
Oh yeah, I’ve uploaded a picture of Jovianne in Nikon’s my picturetown competition/activity/sharing(?) on their Facebook page, don’t hesitate to click here to take a look and vote for my picture!
And meanwhile, STAY TUNED FOR MORE!
Dinner in Malaysia
I figured it’s time for me to get my Nikon everywhere I go and start shooting again. Start shooting with a Purpose. And leaving all doubts and negativities I had earlier, I lugged my buddy and headed out to dinner with the family. Other than the good food, I think the start of my new direction is going well too!
Please tell me what you think!
Doubts and Directions
Lately I’ve been thinking. And thinking. Is it really best for me to squeeze a photo everyday to post? Am I really benefitting from this experience of shooting everyday? Or has it already gradually becoming an everyday-task to me that I’m slowly losing focus and attention on?
I think I’m not doing well with this 365 project already. It’s not tiresome to take a photo and post it everyday, the problem is, I think I’m slowly becoming a slave to this thing. I want to deliver good pictures, and not just random shots I take just for the photo of the day. Somehow I feel the quality of my photographsdoes not my standards anymore; shots that I’m proud of. Shots that I want to show off to the world. I don’t have that kind of feeling anymore. Am I just passing time and treating this like any other assignments or project? I think I need to think seriously about this.
And I need to be more serious in the things I do here.
It’s either I improve my quality of work by decreasing my output (which means ditching the postaday2011/project 365), or to slowly get my mojo back and post pictures that I myself think are worthy for the eyes of others?
Shooting everyday seems an easy task, but shooting without aims or, sadly to say, the heart to do it? I don’t think I want to continue if this is what has become of me after 2 months into the project. Through the pictures, sometimes I see myself losing focus and insight. Hell, I don’t even want people to see some of my pictures I posted, to be honest.
What are some directions that people take when they operate their photo blogs? A picture a day, or photo sets that you post anytime you like? What I know currently is that I’m feeling more towards the latter.
What is the most important thing to me towards managing my photo blog? This I know now: Delivering pictures that I, MYSELF, like and am proud of, and not just sub-standard shots that are posted just to pass time and abide to my project.
I need time to think about this. BIG TIME.
ElMO
It’s always good to have someone something to accompany you through sad days.
Today’s just not my day. Period.
Confessions of a Sentimentalist 