Archive for August, 2010

Loving my new lens from from eBay

August 30, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

As soon as I heard someone knock the door this morning, I knew my Mamiya Sekor-C 45mm f/2.8 has finally arrived.

Particularly pleased because I resisted buying from local shops. Instead, I gambled by buying it from eBay and saved 100 bucks.

Time to take it out for some landscape shoots. For those of you who don’t know, medium format 45mm is about 28mm in the world of 135mm photography. Read More

Great Sony Nex5 commercials from Japan

August 29, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf1_ZB7tadg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Saw these ads via Rudi Leung's blog.

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Foreigner wins an award photographing Punggol

August 29, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

If you read my earlier tweets, then you would have seen this photo entry for the International Photography Awards 2010. First of all, congrats to Steffen Schragle for winning  1st place for Architecture: Bridges at the awards with his series of Train tracks. And yes these photos were taken at our very own Punggol, Singapore.

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Sony Alpha A55 and A33 video

August 28, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfH5Kt-u6E&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] If you are a busy man with no time to read up more on the latest DSLRs. Here's a four-minute video on all the things you need to know about the new Sony Alpha A55 and A33. If you ask me, I'm more excited about the A55/A33 than the Canon EOS 60D.

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My top 10 favs photos of IPA 2010 part 2

August 27, 2010  |  Blog  |  4 Comments

This time, they are from the non-pro category:

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My top 10 favs photos of IPA 2010

August 26, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

What better way to start off than sharing my own pic, which won an honorable mention? Muahahah. But no, my own works does not fall into my top favs unfortunately.

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i still believe this is the future of photography

August 24, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

This video may be more than 10 months old and you probably have seen it by now, it is still worth a second look. I am a firm believer that living art is the way to go for photography.

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New theme on my 100th post

August 24, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

In case you can't tell, I made some drastic changes to my blog on my 100th post with wordpress. And here's a good advice to all of you: Never ever attempt to revamp your wordpress theme at night, thinking you can go to sleep in just 30 minutes.

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lianhewanbao is this photo ethical?

lianhewanbao is this photo ethical?

August 23, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

First of all, my condolences to the Wee family. This post is in no way trying to shame the late Mr John Patrick Wee. But i could not help notice this image on the cover of LianHeWanBao (chinese paper). Nothing wrong with this image you say? Not until you flip to the second page of the paper to see this photo.

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random snapshots at crowbar awards

random snapshots at crowbar awards

August 23, 2010  |  Blog  |  No Comments

Did not really take a lot of photos at the event. Nothing really to shout about to be honest. Interestingly, apart from my FYP photos, my portraits of WKWSCI's Kym Robin Campbell got shortlisted as finalist too.

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