Ultimate Tool for Hippies

Mar 16 2011 Published by under Film And Lomography

I finally got bored. And then got myself a Holga camera. After I spend the last few days reading about lomography and film processing, I decided to go back to basic. Uh, I mean to analogue photography. Considering the film price and it’s processing cost, I thought this might be a good idea. For the sake of exploring something new, this isn’t a bad idea.

So I order a Holga 10 CFN from a very friendly lomographer at Lowyat.net. This is a plastic lens, colored flash version. I couldn’t wait for the one with glass lens version, so I’ll just get this anyway. Plastic lens might not be a bad idea. Besides, hardcore lomographers insisted on plastic lens being the original Holga.

I bought along two rolls of film. One roll of 120mm and one roll of expired 35mm. I’m gonna upload my first experiment soon. Right after I’m done with these two rolls. Stay tune for some failed hippies shots.

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The Other Side of Medan

Feb 28 2011 Published by under Photoshoot

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Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins

Mar 03 2010 Published by under Tutorial

Let’s start this month’s post with a photography post. I’ve found a good one on my ever beloved photography blog and I’ll share it with my readers. Enjoy.

First of all, I have to thank Darren, and this wonderful DPS community for supporting our family through the illness and death of our son. We are deeply and profoundly grateful to each of you. THANK YOU. Not really a way to segue from that. I won’t try. :)

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Basic photography: metering modes

Jan 09 2010 Published by under Tutorial

It’s been a long time since the last time I write about basic photography. I just stumbled upon a great article on explaining metering modes. I’ll just copy paste it from DPS because I think there’s just no need to rewrite the whole thing. It’s already basic enough.

Credits to the original author. Here goes.

On today’s digital cameras, users have the ability to choose and adjust the metering mode, or how the camera measures the brightness of the subject. Metering settings work by assessing the amount of light available for a photograph, and then adjusting the exposure accordingly. Sometimes, however, the camera isn’t intuitive enough to get the exposure right when using Program, Shutter Priority, or Aperture Priority modes. Fortunately, the photographer has the ability to make manual adjustments to the metering mode used by the camera. (Refer to your individual owner’s manual to learn how to change the settings on your camera.)

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Greatest gadgets from 10 years of innovation

Jan 05 2010 Published by under News

Others may look back on the years 2000 to 2009 and remember elections, wars, global warming and Michael Jackson, but for gearheads like us, this was the decade that mobile tech grew up.

During the first decade of the 21st century, we saw a whole slew of new mobile technologies capture the public imagination: the smartphone, the MP3 player, the USB stick, touchscreens, Wi-Fi, 3G wireless, pocket camcorders, digital SLRs and more.

Thanks to these inventions, people got increasingly plugged into an always-on, totally portable, always-connected existence. Where we stand now, notebooks outsell desktop PCs, people spend more on mobile phones than on landlines, and portable game consoles outnumber the ones plugged into your TV cabinet.

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