Product Shoot #2

Another product shoot.
I just got this watch yesterday. It suddenly struck me today, since it's a Sunday, why not do a product shoot on this watch?

Disclaimer:
I'm not affiliated to Casio in any way at the time of shoot and posting of this photo =). It's purely for personal satisfaction and leisure.

Here it goes. It was done pretty last minute, post processing was at a minimum too as I'm rushing to go out but can't wait to upload the photos! Was quite please with the time spent and results. Of coz, there are several details like the hand blocking the brand name, some unwanted reflection, but for the time spent, I think the results are pretty encouraging. I didn't want to spend time on the little details for this brief shoot. Feel free to comment away =)

I did some post processing. What do you think of this version? I like this one better. Am very tempted to email this to Casio and see whether they are willing to pay for this picture :p

CosFest 2006

CosFest 2006. or CosFest V. The fifth Cosplay Festival in Singapore.
It is my first actual CosPlay event! My first encounter was during the SSF just weeks ago. That sort of stirred my interest in CosFest. And there I was with some friends to experience the largest Cosplay event in Singapore.

It was held at Pasir Ris, Downtown East, D'Marquee. Boy, I love the MC. He's good. Period.

Back to the event itself, there were many people who dressed up. I saw some familiar faces from the previous SSF event too! There were characters from a wide variety of series/shows/movies. I saw Star Wars, Star Trek, Bleach, One Piece, Gundam, Naruto etc etc etc. I will let the pictures do the talking.

Talking about pictures, I came home with about 130 pics. I'm posting about 16 of them. The percentage of personally acceptable photos are still between 10-20%. My personal goal? To raise that to 50%. Btw, for the 16 photos of the first (might be the only one if I don't have enough time) batch of uploads, no individual processing was done. Mostly batch processing. Maybe can raise the posting % of photos a bit if I have time for individual touch up and processing.

Back to the photos.
If you see any of your friends in the pictures, do introduce them to this site. If you would like your picture taken off my blog, do drop me an email too. Lastly, here are the photos.

Taken down due to request of cosplayer =)Will find something to replace it when I have time

Here's the 2nd batch of photos =)

Photos taken around Singapore #3

Well, this time it was at Punggol, near the jetty to depart for OBS Singapore.
This outing was aptly named West Coasters Outing or something like that, coz all the people are from West Coast!! That was one of the motivation of joining this outing :p

This outing consist of 11 people. 11 nice people to be exact. Let me try to recall, there was Kiz, Luke, Louis, Colin, Dan, Alvin, Jacky, Dennis, KK, WeiGang (if any of the spelling is wrong, do let me know :))

Initially, it was all 11 strangers, but slowly, the ice breaks. Mainly due to the fact that we all have 1 common interest!!

Anyway, the outing was themed Sunset Shoot. However, the heavy overcast sort of covers the egg yolk. I ended up with the below few shots.

I always wanted to do the silky wave enveloping rocks at the sea. Finally I have the chance and I must say, finding the correct size of stone and undistracting surrounding elements is not easy.

I took this nearer to the end. The Fish Eye has been left lying around for too long, so decided to take it on a spin. My first FE picture taking on digital so far. The Crop Factor seems to have cut down on the exaggerated feel of the pics.

I did some PS to produce this picture. I wouldn't term it as heavy PS, but more than usual/normal PS. Would you prefer this or the original unchanged version below?

Rambling #1

What is a blog without some rambling, some complaints, some discoveries, some sort of self-directed conversation?

Lol... this shan't be some simple rambling, it shall come with pictures!!
Let me introduce the new picture taking device I used today.. my Motorola SLVR L7. Those who are familiar with handphones may know how good, or how limited the L7 is at taking photos.

If you can't, that's not the main point.

Here's the story.

I was out shopping with my friend. Shopping for office essentials, things to be worn when we go to work etc. Logically, we went to John Little near Centre Point. After the usual search for clothes, we went to check out some houseware stuff for fun. And I passed by this rack/shelf/wat-ever-you-call-it-display-thing.

I told myself, this product looks familiar. I picked up the packaging, turned it around, and found something that took me by surprise. Mouth opened. Stunned. These 4 photos show what I saw behind some of the packagings.

If you recall my previous blog entry, or wish to visit it HERE, you may find the pictures extremely similar/familiar/some-may-even-claim-it-as-exactly-the-same! Well, the pictures you see on my blog, is 100% taken by me. If I search my database, I probably can show you the RAW/PSD of it.

You have no idea what was my feeling just then. It was a mixed feeling. That was the first time I actually see pictures I took printed on packagings!! Brochures I have seen before, but coloured packaging? And the funny part was, really weird, that I have to find it out in this manner. Where I didn't have prior knowledge that I would find out my picture to be used in this manner?! So if you still have no idea what was my feeling, feel free to msn me and chat it out with me.

Milk Run 2006

I was at the MILK Run 2006 today. Thanks to Anna and Beyond for the opportunity to join in the fun today =)

I read up a bit on MILK Run before I went there to shoot. It's an annual event since 2001 i believe, in conjunction with the annual youth day. What I didn't expect was the scale of the event!! This year it was held right outside Zouk. Zouk, the night spot for pubbing, was the venue sponsor of the event.

There were many stalls selling food, Henne paintings etc to raise fund, not to mention that the run itself is meant for charity. The number of volunteers involved today was huge. There are people manning the stalls. There are people manning the refreshments, providing food and drinks to those present. There are people who are the road marshals. Not to forget the medical Red Cross people. And also, the photographers, videographers, various sponsors etc.

The day started at about 1145 when I met up with Vincent V for lunch. After that, we headed off to Boys Brigade which was near to Great World City. We followed the kids and staff to Zouk, mingled around with them, watched performance, and off they went for the run. V and I stationed ourselves to shoot the run. Quite an interesting experience definitely. The important point was how to capture moving subjects to be well focused. After the run, there was the prize giving ceremony. We ended the day by returning to BB for a while before leaving for home at about 2000.

The following are some pictures taken during the day. =)

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