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.