Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wang Wang
One of the most 'manja' (in constant need of pampering) pooch I've ever seen. I swear, she has this whole multitude of sly tactics in order to get your attention. My girl's other pooch is coming up in my next entry.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Megan Fox-ified
This is the main reason why my money goes to Starbucks. Mmmmm caffeine and theanine...
On to more recent stuff; am back from watching Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and I have to say, it was superbly awesome. However, as a proud member of the nitpicking society, I happen to think the title is rubbish. My next few lines might contain spoilers so you've been warned.
You see, the "Revenge Of The Fallen" doesn't go with the whole story at all considering that the Fallen only had a short screen-time and he wasn't even a key character to begin with (the whole storyline can work with or without him). Not to mention, The Fallen fell yet again at the end of the movie (just in case you didn't catch that, he died). And that's hardly a revenge by any standards. Perhaps, "Failed Revenge Of The Fallen" or "Megan Fox Is The Bomb" would be more befitting, no?
p/s: it's astonishing how much publicity can be garnered from a celebrity's death. remember how Heath Ledger's death gave Batman that extra bit of publicity? mind you, that's the kind of publicity movie makers can't buy. anyway, R.I.P. MJ
Friday, June 19, 2009
Woke up at 4am
Now what could be possibly worse than going to bed at 3+am and waking up at 4am? Oh right, being unable to bloody go back to sleep. I tell you, my sleep pattern's going to murder me one fine day.
...ugh I'll probably just go down some cereal.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
It's been a while
Briefly met up with these bunch of people last week at this place serving some weird-ass desserts (It's a place called Snowflake located in SS15). It's been a while since I last saw some of them and I have to say, some things just wont change no matter how much time has gone past by. It's nice to see you all after so long though.
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p/s: fixed my archives and added some 'Older posts' thing down below. However, I'm only allowing access to 2009's entries and the 'Older posts' thingo is quite the con job as it'll only display 33 of my latest posts. I don't have access to Blogger's actual function as I'm not using their new template.
p/p/s: special mini-section for SmellyJelly
- CF card - a type of memory card I use for the Canon EOS 5D.
- Write speed - was referring to the 'speed' of the memory card.
- RAW - like JPEG, it's a format the camera uses to save your photos. Will be using that format from now onwards.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Just married
Apologies for the minor disappearing act I've pulled off. Been busy with a few things lately and not to mention, am also distracted by a few unfortunate happenings. Nonetheless, all is still well and everything will be back to normal in good time. Chillings. Furthermore, dad helped me score a cheap 4GB CF card. Write speed is decent but who needs blazing write speed when one can slowly enjoy creating them pretty photos? (am making my situation sound better, shut it) Plus, I don't have to work with only 512MB of memory anymore. Which means I'm capable of going full RAW from now onwards, yay me.
Equipment: N95
One of my high school friends' getting married. This would be my first friend's wedding I've attended. Quite a weird experience I have to say as the gravity of the whole situation didn't really hit me until after the lunch. To think that we are all so far from where we were, I can't help but feel a bit nostalgic with a hint of excitement (honestly, who wouldn't be excited when there's buffet?).
Perhaps it'll be trite but necessary to add that I would like to wish the newlyweds all the best and be nice to each other (hahaha). Wonder who's up next...
Equipment: N95
One of my high school friends' getting married. This would be my first friend's wedding I've attended. Quite a weird experience I have to say as the gravity of the whole situation didn't really hit me until after the lunch. To think that we are all so far from where we were, I can't help but feel a bit nostalgic with a hint of excitement (honestly, who wouldn't be excited when there's buffet?).Perhaps it'll be trite but necessary to add that I would like to wish the newlyweds all the best and be nice to each other (hahaha). Wonder who's up next...
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Irked
"I prefer taking photos of people because shooting cars are damn easy. Just shoot the front, side and back. What's so hard?"- Brendan Lee
Perhaps it's paramount to point out that the phrase above wasn't directed at me (I hope so), just heard of it from someone. One should not so openly talk big when one has only achieved so little. So easy huh? I challenge you to top this Mr.Brendan Lee. I know, it's a lame pun but I intended none.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Mmm sugar
Equipment: EOS 5D MkI, EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L, Speedlite 580EX and last but not least, my Nokia armed with Python for S60 (more on this later).
I'm writing this with obscenely high sugar levels in my system and I have a feeling it's going to be a loooooooong night. What better way to kill the night than to sit here and type and type and type gibberish. Ok that killed 23 seconds. What now?
Anyway moving on, this is not how you do proper food photography. My results aren't exactly satisfying but I don't have much of a choice anyway as I had to return the 5D in due time. Additionally, my lack of tripod is an even bigger bit*h than I've previously thought. So the lack of time and tripod both adds up to these;
Kinder Bueno by Ferrero. Smooth nutty cream filling in crispy wafers coated with milk chocolate. Was nuts for these ever since I was a kid. Can finish a whole pack in seconds. Proper proper awesome this is (yes, you have no frigging idea where Kinder Boenos stand in my Awesome Chart).
I see so many faults with this shot. Like how the front M&M's are blurred out and how the red M&M somewhere in middle is deformed and how the M&M's are not smooth enough and how the M&M's are not shiny enough and the way they taste....mmm M&M's
Oreos with milk, lots and lots of milk = yet another childhood craze.
Anyway notice the background. It's actually my N95. Used some Python for S60 thingamajig to make the whole screen go white. Stupid programme it is as the screen goes dark after being idle for a few moments. Hence, brownie points goes to a similar programme found in the iPhone as the iPhone is brighter and the screen doesn't go off till the battery's flat (hate it when iPhone wins).
p/s: would be great if I could have more time with the 5D *sigh* :( *munches on remaining Kinder Bueno to soothe my aching soul*
I'm writing this with obscenely high sugar levels in my system and I have a feeling it's going to be a loooooooong night. What better way to kill the night than to sit here and type and type and type gibberish. Ok that killed 23 seconds. What now?
Anyway moving on, this is not how you do proper food photography. My results aren't exactly satisfying but I don't have much of a choice anyway as I had to return the 5D in due time. Additionally, my lack of tripod is an even bigger bit*h than I've previously thought. So the lack of time and tripod both adds up to these;
Kinder Bueno by Ferrero. Smooth nutty cream filling in crispy wafers coated with milk chocolate. Was nuts for these ever since I was a kid. Can finish a whole pack in seconds. Proper proper awesome this is (yes, you have no frigging idea where Kinder Boenos stand in my Awesome Chart).I see so many faults with this shot. Like how the front M&M's are blurred out and how the red M&M somewhere in middle is deformed and how the M&M's are not smooth enough and how the M&M's are not shiny enough and the way they taste....mmm M&M's
Oreos with milk, lots and lots of milk = yet another childhood craze.Anyway notice the background. It's actually my N95. Used some Python for S60 thingamajig to make the whole screen go white. Stupid programme it is as the screen goes dark after being idle for a few moments. Hence, brownie points goes to a similar programme found in the iPhone as the iPhone is brighter and the screen doesn't go off till the battery's flat (hate it when iPhone wins).
p/s: would be great if I could have more time with the 5D *sigh* :( *munches on remaining Kinder Bueno to soothe my aching soul*
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Frozen can of Cola. Light from the flash too harsh. No good. Rectify it I shall. (didn't have a chance to rectify the issue due to the contents' um, 'sudden' disappearance)
My watch. Been wearing this for about 2 years now and I have to say, it's an absolute delight. It's a Fossil watch (not too sure on the model name though) and it has a leather strap with some printing on the inner sides. Tiny details, I like.Both were shot on a plain surface against a plain background with emphasis to lighting. Do take note that lighting has the priority this time, not the subject nor background. Am not exactly happy with the narrow depth of field but it's not that big of a bother.
Anyway, these are just test runs for my new set. Going to be trying something new and I'm really looking forward to it. New set will be ready and uploaded by the end of this week, I hope. So stay tuned! I like it when I'm so darn full of ideas. Now where's that Moleskine I need...
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