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Musing... an attempt to free the little character on the right most frame (: Artsy huh?
An experiment I'm glad I made. I like the effects on print, much better than this scanned version
I know this is quite a crappy shot, but I don't expect myself to run up to the guy's ass with my 24mm lens just to capture this interesting moment between the girl and her dad (:
Remake of the black and white version. Obviously better exposure cause' there isn't awkward lighting in broad daylight
An attempt to mimic the style of the photograph above. Didn't work out all that well. This one's junction's wider. A 35mm might do better than a 24mm here. Light's too bright. I think I set it to f16 + CPL and I can't get sufficient blurring from the traffic.
This one's my fault. I failed to recognise the overly bright sky above. The walls are severely underexposed, which explains the noise.
Couldn't quite get the effect I wanted. Maybe a little artificial vignetting might help. Then again the caution sign's already about 2 stops under exposed. Should have filled flash, which I don't have, or just pointed the camera higher for a silhouette
Hill Street cat. This's the funny faced fella I didn't catch the first time I saw them. She's all grown up now. Still as scared of me as ever. Cute little girl, I'd have petted her on her head if she didn't keep running away.
See the interesting clouds? I was so surprised to see them through my viewfinder. They were almost invisible to the naked eye. This is how the pros get the really interesting cloud effects. They use ND filters to draw out the clouds. For the same effect, just look out of your window. You'd realise that you can see details through the window pane you can't see if you just looked straight at the sky. Hmm, the effect isn't that great on this photo cause' I'm a poor bloke without a ND filter. I used a CPL and twisted it to give this. I might get a 3stop ND filter just to do this... ahh the possibilities
My favourite of the lot. Why? Cause' it's almost black and white, I had to focus on composition and form. The colours the Superia gives is just bleh. Then again, it's actually up to the labs to interpret the colours... that's a finicky technical question I don't wish to discuss on my blog. Well, I still dislike colour negatives anyway. I bumped up the saturation and increased the warmth for the Dr Ng Eng Hen's photo... his face turned orange before the other colours got close, CLOSE, to the correct hue and saturation.
Conclusion:
Colour negatives are really disappointing. I'm not wasting money buying any new stock. I'm on my last roll of Superia 200 which might be screwed up for all I know, cause' I re-rolled it into another film can after I screwed up the original one. I'm going full black and white now. When I feel rich enough I'll experiment with slide films. I have a roll of Velvia 100 in the freezer now. I haven't got the patience to go shooting one whole day with it. I might be getting a Canon 30D soon instead of a Mamiya 645 pro. The Mamiya seller is kinda... missing.
Oh yea, I forgot to mention. There's this pretty Caucasian babe who looked at me for a tad too long and I just gave her a funny look. Damn it, babes notice GWC [guys with camera]. I must develop a suitable response next time I go out shooting. Lol :D
Yeps, I better be gone. Bye all. 1 more month and you'll probably see 1 update per day - provided that I got myself a DSLR/compact.
-ramblings that might offend people. If you're easily offended and you own a DSLR, do not read!-
On a side note, there're just too many noobs-with-camera nowadays. I must have seen 2 dozen people with DSLR within half an hour on my last shooting trip. Why do I call them noobs? Well I'm a snob for one, 2nd they run their face into a flat panel and use the onboard flash. Goodness sake, I can't imagine the flare and "vignetting" he's gonna get. That's just one example. I'm sure out of the 2 dozen, at least 7 are decent and probably a hand full of pros. But the sheer number of people running around with big cameras is just shocking. This is what you get when the big companies go bananas with their adverts and price slashes on the DSLRs... Any budding pro-photographer-wannabe, you better distinguish yourself with either 1)film 2) medium format. If the above 2 fails, go get yourself a compact camera. Nope, I'm not joking with the compact. If you need evidence that compacts can get good photo, visit my teacher's flickr and check out his macro shots. [Mind you, he's a geography teacher, not a photography teacher, I have none] Then again, check out the flickr's group of phone camera photographers. Their photos are all better than mine, a snob who trots around with a big SLR.
Colour negatives are really disappointing. I'm not wasting money buying any new stock. I'm on my last roll of Superia 200 which might be screwed up for all I know, cause' I re-rolled it into another film can after I screwed up the original one. I'm going full black and white now. When I feel rich enough I'll experiment with slide films. I have a roll of Velvia 100 in the freezer now. I haven't got the patience to go shooting one whole day with it. I might be getting a Canon 30D soon instead of a Mamiya 645 pro. The Mamiya seller is kinda... missing.
Oh yea, I forgot to mention. There's this pretty Caucasian babe who looked at me for a tad too long and I just gave her a funny look. Damn it, babes notice GWC [guys with camera]. I must develop a suitable response next time I go out shooting. Lol :D
Yeps, I better be gone. Bye all. 1 more month and you'll probably see 1 update per day - provided that I got myself a DSLR/compact.
-ramblings that might offend people. If you're easily offended and you own a DSLR, do not read!-
On a side note, there're just too many noobs-with-camera nowadays. I must have seen 2 dozen people with DSLR within half an hour on my last shooting trip. Why do I call them noobs? Well I'm a snob for one, 2nd they run their face into a flat panel and use the onboard flash. Goodness sake, I can't imagine the flare and "vignetting" he's gonna get. That's just one example. I'm sure out of the 2 dozen, at least 7 are decent and probably a hand full of pros. But the sheer number of people running around with big cameras is just shocking. This is what you get when the big companies go bananas with their adverts and price slashes on the DSLRs... Any budding pro-photographer-wannabe, you better distinguish yourself with either 1)film 2) medium format. If the above 2 fails, go get yourself a compact camera. Nope, I'm not joking with the compact. If you need evidence that compacts can get good photo, visit my teacher's flickr and check out his macro shots. [Mind you, he's a geography teacher, not a photography teacher, I have none] Then again, check out the flickr's group of phone camera photographers. Their photos are all better than mine, a snob who trots around with a big SLR.
