Katsaridaphobia

Katsaridaphobia

This is the name NatGeo gave to fear of cockroaches, 

but why katsarida ?

according to babelfish ,κατσαρίδα (katsarida) is the Greek word for cockroach.

well, the reason why I start blogging about this 

is because the incident started with cockroach encounter, 

This particular cockroach,

scared the shit out of me, literally

it makes me lost my feel to do my nature calls,

and bath too, 

from there onwards , I start change my bathing habit from night to morning

and this is why I hate night , 

boonboon2k2

I hate Katsarida....

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...