My maiden voyage....

I wanted to Lomo this,

but I felt it is better left untouched,

since it looks nice without anything ....

hm, I was offered to help a person to take crystals shot for his company,

it's making an online catalog for him...

If this goes well,

I have extra thousands crystal for me to take o...haha....

and most important ...income ...

However, In order for me to convince more people to coorperate with me,

I need a good statistics, and I hope you can help me with that,

 I need to show people that I could bring up a good offer in using my service,

so , if you readers are free,

please share some of my blog post

in facebook and gain some traffic for me ...

This is a positive cycle,

with more traffic, i can get more subject to take

with that ,higher standard pics will come ,

and ...make the blog more enjoyable...

..so is a win win situation for us right ?

although i'm satisfied with  30 reader per day,

but I do hope I can gain more traffic

so I can convince a bigger business partner to coorperate with me...

a sneak peak for this crystals , 

boonboon2k2

Look like i cant go kl so early liao... 

Lomography

If anyone may wonder,

What is Lomography ?

Well, it is a style only a camera

"Lomo LC-A" can archieve,

Initially this Russian made camera,

is regarded as poorly made and bad picture taker too,

However, in early 1990,

2 students in Vienna started a new style of photography with

their creative approach,

and soon,

you guess it, it became a style,

There are two main attribute in Lomo,

1. there is a vignette surrouding the pic ,

a vignette is the black /darken area around the corner of the pic,

2. the saturation and colour contrast .

This is due to the technique called cross-processing in dark room.

To really understand what is cross processing is,

Let me explain,

Typically , it happens when you develop film in a chemical other then it was made for.

A standard 35mm (our normal analog camera) film use  C41 chemical to process the photos,

However, a Lomo colour slide film is usually process by E6 chemical,

Dont ask me what is C41 and E6, I dont know,

I know is something to process the photos though,

Ok, now the magic of Lomography lies here,

A Lomo will use a colour slide film and process it in C41 chemical and this results

in super weird combination and photos,

In order to archieve that result on my SLR,

I had to photoshop it to mimic that effect ,

Here is the link for the photoshop tutorial, 

So, with a powerful format like RAW, it gives more freedom for me

to further made my photos into nicer pics...

this is the original pic,

This is the LOMO-fied pic...

boonboon2k2,

I knew the existence of Lomo from Brendan 

but Christina remind me of this technique...

thanks ....

Ideas

Recently I ran out of ideas , 

not on blog topic, 

but rather on what photo to take 

on entering that muar yuan cheng xiang competition, 

another backlight theme photos, 

and a theme for next week, 

arrrrrrr.....

how to take a group shot with ba kuah in it ????

boonboon2k2

arrrrrrr

A bug's life

To tell the truth, one day a shot is quite hectic to me ....

 However, If i can produce good shot everyday ,

I dont mind,

But too bad, my best shot for the day really is flawed in many ways.

Just like out of focus like yesterdays dog pictures,

and the unexpected blockage from the ant antenna.

 But , I hope you can see the anxiety of that ant though...

And I saw few photography contest around the corner,

Suprisingly ,

the winner of this contest is determine by how many "like" in Facebook,

quoting the website 

"Winners are determined through the number of “Likes” the photo receives."

And since the theme is 

“family reunion, gathering or valentine”  

Anyone have any ideas ? 

This company is a food company 

call Muar Yuan Chen Siang , 

so mostly i need a food / family shots...

but i out of creativity for this purpose..

 group shots will be boring for this contest ...since 

every submission is groups shots...

boonboon2k2

I wan to win that camera...

执子之手,与子偕老

No doubt, shooting in RAW can be fun,

but if this continues, I had to buy a new hardisk,

only for storing my photos....

this not my best shot as it is out of focus,

(i intended to focus the eye but the camera went for the nose)

but I felt wasted to discard it ...

I love the emotion he gave back then

When I saw a dog, I cant help but to think about

how dog be so loyal in loving his master,

but how fragile we are in loving someone,

and there was a saying by  my chinese teacher,

which the only deep impression i had on him is that he is cool,

nevertheless there is a saying i learn from him is ..

执子之手,与子偕老

which basically ,

Hold your hands, and live till we grow olds,

althought it is part of a poem , but it give a simple yet powerful meaning,

and i think it is nice to share the whole poem out right here,

执子之手,与子共著；

执子之手,与子同眠；

执子之手,与子偕老；

执子之手,夫复何求?

Which means

Hold your hands, pass through difficulty with you,

Hold your hands, and sleep through the night with you,

Hold your hands, and grow old with you,

Hold your hands, what else I can wish for ?

correct me if I'm wrong with the translation,

(counting on ah yu for that )

because I translate through my understanding of the poem, 

boonboon2k2

It may sound simple, but it really express everything I wish for in a relationship

Origin of 下一站天后,

When I travel in HK using their MTR(Mass Transit Railway),

which is equivalent to our LRT,

except the subway map is bigger,

for clearer look , click here

and the train is superly long and big,

However, I noticed one thing ,

IF your next stop is MONG KOK ,

the PA will announce ( annoys you ) that

The PA will tell you that  (in order)
"NEXT STATION MONG KOK"
下一站 旺角 （奥语）


And how does that relate to this song ?



well, if you look carefully,

there is a Station in MTR is call TIN HAO (天后）

so if anyone who pass by TIN HAU station
will hear the sentence
NEXT STATION TIN HAU
下一站 天后

If you still think I'm crapping,
even the song lyrics also indicate that tian hou is a place,
quoting the lyrics...

"站在大丸前　細心看看　我的路

再下個車站　到天后　當然最好"

boonboon2k2
I believe this is 伍乐城 (lyrician) found his ilham

I so sorry

 I'm so sorry,

I dont know why,

I had this feeling that we are heading to sunsets

to our journey ,

if parting is the ending of everything,

then before i reach the ending,

I hope I can treat you better ,

but of course, I dont wish to have any ending

in the first place..

The only ending I want is an happy ending just like fairy tales,

the prince may kiss the bride, and live "happily ever after"

I am so sorry that my love reach you later than it should,

I am so sorry , that I hurt you more than I should,

I am so sorry about the fact that I realize I need you when it is too late...

boonboon2k2

I think this is consequences of me being  犯贱

I'm sorry,

My first RAW pic /project 365

This year, I wish to put my photography skill into another level, 

By shooting in RAW format,

If anyone wonder what is RAW, and what is the difference between RAW and JPEG

Let me explain, 

A RAW file,in short 

is uncompressed, complete data from camera sensor, 

so basically, if you got 12 MegaPixel Camera, 

you will get a 12MB worth of data in your RAW pic, 

this is a significant boost to your picture quality as 

A 12 MegaPixel could only take at most 3MB picture in JPEG, 

But JPEG is the standard format for any photos, 

just like FB can accept JPEG format for uploading , but not RAW ....

But higher quality comes with more post editing trouble, 

In JPEG, you can just take the photo and upload it in FB,

but in RAW

you have to view it in another software (Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0) and save it in jpeg,

Well, why I would wan to shoot in RAW since it bring more trouble to me ? 

First of all, RAW is a means for me to produce higher quality picture, 

and 

I wan to change my habit to take photos in quality instead of quantity, 

anyway, 

here is the first shot of my RAW ,

It took me two hour to take this 

but another 2 days to figure out how to save in JPEG ,

but it is worth it though....

boonboon2k2

i feel so proud now

yo yo ,

my  dear blog,

i haven forget you one ,

 I took a long break jo ,

so now I must start my project 365 la

this project 365 is my new year resolution o ,

everyday i will take photos of a theme la,

 to further enhance my photography skills,

including scenery and potraits,

i found few ppl willing to be my model le ,

haha,

this will be a busy year ....

work + study + travel journalism....

 note : this is the first step on engine combustion