Random November

Construction work. I would like the bulldozer thing to act as an anchor, but I was trying to get away as soon as possible cause' that place is near a defunct army camp. Didn't want to be seen as a terrorist lol. Yea, I had better frames, but they're blurred. Oh wells (:

Gen died waiting for me to setup the camera. Hah, joking

Trip to National Museum. Photographs of newly wed Vietnamese brides and their Singaporean husbands. I think the girl 2nd from the right of the photograph is really pretty, the husband on the other hand... ahem. Oh wells, but that isn't really the point. I'm quite disgusted by the idea of "purchasing" brides. I wonder about the morality of this compared to sales of organs. At least organ sales could save lives... bride "purchases' while it may not necessarily be bad, seems like... I don't know, it just irks me. I call it sentient organs transaction.

Sorry for not posting for such a long time. I had alot of things to do post exams and I took most photographs in film. Unfortunately, I've been using the 35mm camera which has 36 frames. Of which I've only taken 9 photographs. Thus there isn't anything I can show as of now. These are all really random photographs I've taken with a compact camera, Canon IXUS 80IS. It is a nice camera but it is obviously no match for the DSLRs I've owned or used. Well, it is a light and cheap alternative. It travels with me everywhere I go and it takes photographs that are interesting but doesn't warrant me using film. (:

Ok, till next time. I'll try to upload as frequently as possible. Do visit again.

Superia 200 Last Roll - Texture

Whee~! My sister's piggy bank, pretty darned cute eh?

A cat vinegar jar lying around in my house. Sadly, it's head has suffered a slight chip... I like the soft glow effect the ceramic gives under intense lighting. The bokeh contributed to it as well. Nope, not a studio shot, just shot on a granite bar top with a pair of halogen spot lamps.

Incense on my family altar. I'm not devout, but I do pray once in awhile. Mostly for safety of my family when they go overseas. That reminds me, I haven't done that for my sis. She's in transit to Denmark at Frankfurt right now. (: She's a nice sibling to have around and we're the closest in the family of 6. Well, we're the youngest kids around.

The grip on my brother's badminton racquet. It hasn't been used in ages. It's the velvety cloth type of wrap. My house is home to nearly a dozen good badminton racquets. A legacy of my dad's passion for the sport... and the past family wealth... which has never found its way into my wallet. Haha :D

Fossilized remains of a pair of scallop shells on a slab of coral. I, me, yes me, found it on a beach at Tioman Island when I was a little kid. Huge slab of coral if you ask me... about 30cmx25cm with 2 large scallop shells on it. Yes, it is fossilized as it is now porous rock, not kidding. This is meant to look like the surface of the moon... well... a macro lens at f2.8 doesn't give a wide depth of field which thus explains its failure.

"Magic hour" plus post rain lighting = Perfect lighting.
Quite sad that the family scanner can't quite render the nuances and changes in shadow detail. I'm disappointed that the reflection of the sun in one of the droplets didn't come through as planned... I'm still intrigued by how Ken Rockwell does it. The sun stars in his images comes off was wonderful starbursts. Maybe I should shoot into the sun instead of the reflection of it.

Hmm, I found a way to negate the limitations of negatives - shooting in good light, I shot all these during the supposed "magic hour". It was a spark of inspiration which conincided with good lighting. I couldn't sleep the night before I took these photographs, so I re-read the book "How to see creatively" and decided that I wanted to finish the darned roll of superia in my camera. Which I did the next day, and resulted in these. The book reminded me of texture... something terribly lacking in my photographs previously. I used to be too concerned with form, shape and lines especially since I've returned to black and white photography. Well, texture can still be seen in black and white, I'll make it a point not to neglect it in the future.

All these photographs were adjusted in GIMP to mimic what I see on the printed photographs. It's printed from the lab downstairs, so I presume there were no adjustment to the saturation curves. Other than being the last roll of Superia I'll probably ever shoot again, this WILL be the last roll of film I'll develop from the lab downstairs. I like the uncle and aunty, but I can absolutely not stand the fact that they've scratched every single film I've sent to them for processing thus far. Geezus. I like the popcorn guy and now, I can't get another print from the negs. Rar. Annoyed.

IR photography

My first attempts at IR photography. If you think that these images sucks, I agree :D They're made with a self modified FOC webcam that Creative gave away a few years ago as publicity for Qmax. The first few photographs looks like typical black and white photographs, the last photograph which shows my eyes are where IR get abit funky. Apparently the iris does not block IR light and thus it looks eerily translucent.

I think the translucent iris makes me look like some psychopath on drugs. Lol

Just experimenting for fun. I won't be pursuing IR photography anytime soon, it's expensive and not as fulfilling as colour or black and white photography in my opinion. (: