21 posts tagged “photography”
There's a little bit of Mars chocolate on the dial of my dslr, probably got it from my midnight snack. Nevertheless, it gave me a general sense of well being. Both of it.
 clipped from www.photojojo.com
clipped from www.photojojo.com
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A couple weeks ago, all the camera makers gathered in Las Vegas to strut their latest. Amidst the bright lights, big screens, buttons, and megapixels, it was easy to forget that photography can be a very simple art form. |
Got home in the morning and walked past the field across my block. There's a dove singing competition held every Sunday, where all the bird lovers would gather and display their prized possession high up across the poles. Getting to hear these beautiful creatures sing is hard to come by. I suppose if I really want to then I should grab some snacks and perhaps mingle around with the participants, but I headed home instead and grabbed my dslr.
Organized by The New Paper and Canon, the contest is open to all from the age of 16 to 35. The overall winner will have the chance to set his career path of being an official photojournalist, after serving an internship with The New Paper for 4 weeks as a training foundation. In addition, he or she will also get a dSLR system worth $5,000 which comprises of a Canon EOS 30D body, 430EX flash, 3 pro-grade prime lenses – 24mm F2.8, 50mm F1.8, and 100mm Macro F2.8 and the new Pro9000 A3-sized photo printer.
Contestants are required to submit 3 photos, one for each of the 3 themes Scenery, People and Action. No additional retouching is allowed except for colour correction, exposure correction, cropping, sharpening and resizing.
So far, I've chosen 3 of my best photos which I personally think suits in the themes. The top photo was taken during my recent Phuket trip. The middle was at Hard Rock Hotel in Bali, but taken with my Sony compact. The bottom was during a corporate soccer match. I'm not really confident though, since god knows there are much better photographers and photos out there submitted for the contest.
Anyway, Gum got her entry submitted, Amsyari is waiting for me to submit so I probably guess he'll be mad if he finds out, and Nat - I'm not really sure if she's interested in the contest anyway since her only ambition is to rule over the world with designer chemicals!!!
clipped from www.lenshoods.co.uk
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- Can be modified to cater for different digital SLR sensor crop factors.
- Available in both 'rounded' and 'petal' versions.
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Things have been really in a mess here in my house, literally. My brother have been so busy doing some minor restoration of the walls and ceilings, before inviting the people from the HDB to come over and calculate the evaluation. By the way we're planning to move out soon, to a new bigger unit a few blocks across the road. I still need to re-paint this very room, but I doubt I could do it unless on my day off.
There's so much to do but so little time.
Took some photos of last week's match. It was already started to rain just before the commencement of the first half, but I managed to get a shot of the team's photo! Nevertheless I snapped away till the end of the game despite the almost exhausted battery. Photos are still being uploaded as I type, and they're available here.
Model: E-500
Shutter Speed: 1/250 second
F Number: F/9.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Feb 11, 2007, 12:26:23 PM
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Model: E-500
Shutter Speed: 1/250 second
F Number: F/9.0
Focal Length: 14 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Feb 11, 2007, 12:28:03 PM
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Model: E-500
Shutter Speed: 1/200 second
F Number: F/8.0
Focal Length: 14 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Feb 11, 2007, 2:20:40 PM
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