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In Transit
I want to state that this is a purely personal opinion, but I am becoming more and more convinced that it is in movement and joy that we express the beauty of our human nature, rather than in the...
No real artist (be warned, far too many photos of me)
By now. I think it’s obvious that my outfit of choice at conventions is Dante. Fig 1 A bit old-school now, not at the cutting edge of fashionable games and shows. Kind of like your dad’s old cre...
So now we come to Cosfest Christmas, run by the same guys. Given that I like to document beauty Fig 1 Which I hasten to add, is a specific beauty, of humanity in general. Fig 2 Of the beauty th...
Street (and incidental AFA report), Part 2: Happiness
Cont’d from the previous: Which raises an interesting problem. I’m always looking for moments like this: Fig 1 captured candidly. Sometimes it is as simple as how people walk in a crowd Fig 2 O...
Street (and incidental AFA report): Part 1
I am probably, at heart, a street photographer. I can posed shots fine: Fig 1 And I am working to get posed shots now, Fig 2 using the lights and shadows and background Fig 3 to create a feel ...
Sometimes we forget what we're on about, part 2
(cont’d from previous) Trick eye was pretty cool. It’s a place set up to create illusions. Fig 1 which become doubly funny when you see the reality. Fig 2 And the fun really kicks in when you s...
Sometimes we forget what we're on about, part 1
It’s been two events since my last post, and I make no apologies about it on account of a four way clash between photography, work, nanowrimo and blogging. First, there was Gamestart, which was p...
Shoot and scoot
Digital photography is awesome in many ways, but, for me, the greatest benefit is summed up in one word: Quantity. Quantity is awesome. Being able to shoot two hundred photos in a day means that,...
Getting better
I signed up for 500px a while ago; it’s given me a chance to look at a lot of photographers’ works. And, you know, they’re really good. Very good indeed. But I have come to the conclusion that I’...
Workhorse
I did splash out a lot on my new F 1.8 75mm lens, and it has certainly been worth the money, giving me access to shots like these: and these But. It is value for money, for a lot of money. And...
I've done a terrible thing
I took my old EP3 out of retirement, and mounted my obsoleted F 2.8 17mm on it. Why? Because misery loves company. It’s not for show. She loves shooting. Here’s the same scene from her perspecti...
Photographic updates; STGCC
So I did a bad thing and I bought a new lens, an Olympus F 1.8 75mm. That finally pushed me over the edge, and I now have an account with 500px. And then I took the lens with me to SGTCC. I went...
Subtlety is, sometimes, overrated in my mind
One of my albums is dedicated to sky shots; actually, two of them, but I plan to start a new one each year. I’ve been fascinated by the sky since I started photography in earnest; this is one of ...
Singularity
I've been taking photos regularly for close to a decade; as I said, when I got my hands on my first digital camera, I took this: Fig 1 and that started me on a kick of wandering around with the c...
Trial and error
Since the previous entry, I've tried to work harder at seting up my shots. It's not been as easy as I hoped; Fig 1 I am apparently too habituated to stealth Fig 2 Which doesn't mean that I...
EXP
I think I'm getting better as a photographer. I'm relying less on filters (says the man who took this) Fig 1 and I'm learning to postprocess images a bit more now Fig 2 But more importantl...
Roll with it
I have a new cover photo now Fig 1 And I'm quite fond of it. See, my original plan this Sunday was to do nothing; Caffeine and I originally planned to do regular photshoots, but she was plann...
Short one: Photoshop
Caffeine and I will be doing photoshoots regularly for a while; mostly, she'l be doing the modelling and the post processing. Post processing? Do I ever post? Well.... I probably should. Comp...
Everything you need, right here.
Recently, there's been a spate of fundamentalist outbursts in my country; last year there was a woman who called the police on a cosplayer whom she felt was showing too much skin, and then there ...
Dreams, made flesh and blood: Cosfest 2014
As usual, we only made it down for the Sunday, due to TKD commitments and some minor surgery on my part (the doctor assures me it's probably not a tumour). Somehow, we managed to get my props com...
New photographic habits
Since coming back from Port Dickson, I've been experimenting. First, I've been shooting at lower and lower light levels, Fig 1 with some unexpected outcomes Fig 2 But after I calibrate (a...
What the sky looks like to an astronomer, 3.0 (I think)
I've been away for a while. First, you see, there was the planning for an astronomy field trip, and then there was the field trip itself, in a place with dubious internet... but we got through al...
Well. What would _you_ do?
There's been this video going round lately, where they deliberately set up a nasty situation and see how people react. And I'm going to do this in a roundabout fashion. See, this is Boat Quay ...
Did I mention that Xueling is also dressing up?
No. Seriously. We didn't do it at first, but then we thought it would be fun to bring her along And then we thought we could try dressing her up a bit. And then it got a bit out of hand...
No pressure
In the local cosplay community, I am in the equivalent of second division, both as a player and as a photographer. That doesn't mean I'm bad. Fig 1 It just means that I don't take part in com...
Book Description
Photography, mostly consisting of cosplay, astrophotography and quite a few sky shots,
