Really, we see dozens of these little flowers, they’re sometimes interesting, we have chances or opportunities showing before us, but do we really pay attention to them?

shot using my D50, apprently it seems that there’s some problem with its read/ write function, some of the pictures were lost from it.

With the monsoon season around one can have almost not hope for getting blue skies. as i am a sucker for blue skies i will inadvertently sometimes willing to forgo photo outings just because of this, after all, the sun is still my best friend. But this time is different, it has become dull and lifeless, it’s no big deal actually, all you need to do is simple: don’t shoot anything that has skies! in fact, with such cloudiness, it also acts as a very good diffuser, giving it a gentler light to your subjects.

a poorly executed panning shot, happened to fast in front of me, was even commented that this shot was taken from a camera phone! 

where shall i park? again, some blurriness effect, didn’t really show on my LCD screen then. i thought it would be a good foreground and background subject, but i guess the effect failed.

brothers

another shot of this albino like dog. as you can see the puppies are quite blur, i was using a 300mm F/4.5 lens, mind you, it’s a manual lens, meaning i have to do manual focusing on this baby. and yes, the stupid little green dot on my D300 ani’t helping at all.

a macro shot, shot against the sky

some flame, they were actually burning some stuff outside this temple, as i did some levelling, i pressed the “auto” function, and somehow the computer think that this is the best exposure level for it, strange funky colours indeed

another one of those funny flames

me, trying macro

a closer shot

we then went to this thai bhuddist temple. i used a 85mm to create nice bokeh out from it

another shot, notce the nice blurred background.

in short, i think it was a lousy day for me, while writing this blog, i realised that the pictures i took, look rather amateur-ish, haih, don’t really know what’s wrong. i guess with digital, anything goes, not much of a consideration is required on the way you compose. it looked darn good on my LCD, but i guess i was tricked by it.

oh wait, this is supposed to be a fun cloudy day… what the heck am i doing!? WHOAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

i am a crazy photographer, or sometimes, i am known to be crazy about photography. i just love taking pictures, but of course there’s a downside to it, with the D300 i just go crazy, it’s always burst mode shoot at all angles and then review the pics later, this will usually result in hours of frustration in front of the laptop doing tonnes of editing on the photos. 2 things i hated:

1. too many photos to review
2. my fancy wancy photoshop skills are a joke

So i used my trusty FM2n, with film, i really have to be careful with my shots, it is after all 36 shots per roll. you have to consider composition wise is it ok, are your exposure settings correct, whether you’re down to your pants or underwear or buck naked (LOL).

and of course, the viewfinder is indeed way bigger and brighter compared to my D300’s, and with film, you don’t have to do fancy wancy photoshop on your picture, “it’s film whaat, why need photoshop?”. Good excuse eh?

going the film path also brought along some complications, you need to get them developed, it’s hard to find any shops that does HC-10 (BnW) or E-6 processing. so i do tend to stick to C-41 processing, which includes taking your camera into a jungle and blast it up with plastic explosives is usually processed at your normal photo labs.

shooting film of course got a bit quite addictive to me, and i started looking at pictures shot with films and i stumbled upon lomography. these are sometimes known as toy cameras, they’re awesome, it’s like you just shoot and to hell with the colour rendition, it's a bit like liberating oneself from the boring photography rules. so i started to look around for lomo/ toy cameras, but unfortunately my friends are using digital cameras, or analogue users who think toy cameras are a joke.

being awfully constrained financially means i cannot afford to buy one, my wife is already giving me the stare if i were to get one. one of stares that gives you the creeps which usually come to a tragic end. naturally i browsed around the net, trying to get the best deals for these guys, and since there’s so many toy cameras in the market, it’s just too hard for me to make a decision on which toy camera to buy. that is, i met my saviour Adrian, from The -Click- Shop (Malaysia). he came up with this post here.

i am to contribute 2 blogs per month to his site, and in return, i get to try out the toy cameras he is selling. man, HOW COOL IS THAT!!! so, quickly i shot an email to him and showed him my blog, he said other than my lousy engrand and my fat appearance, i am ok. i was over the moon! now i can try out cool cameras for FREE! WOOHOO~!

we exchanged contacts and i got a review unit:

introducing, the blackbird fly, it is a toy TLR (twin lens reflex), it has 2 aperture modes, F/7 and F/11 and comes with one shutter speed 1/125s.

twin lens, 2 lens, one for the viewfinder, the other for the camera

this is what you will see via viewfinder

2 aperture modes

considering the fact that it uses film, choosing the best iso is rather crucial, i am trying out iso 200, see how it goes, till then i need to get out and try it out.

Whoahaha :D

I guess my wife has seen me do way too many weird stuff, and decides to try it… on me!

tee-hee-hee, hubby ar, let’s see you try on this eyeliner, see fun boh? tee-hee-hee

i don’t really remember when did i take this series, although i have been busy, but i seldom missed a weekend out shooting, so like a good boy now, i am slowly repaying what is due.

Well, kluang railway station is popular because of its good breakfast (though i think it’s over rated). when one visits the station at kluang johor, it is usually crowded, the coffee and the buns is a must try. of course, i would try to take pics of the shop and food, but why bother? i am pretty sure by now there would be gazzilion of pics like that floating in the internet by now.

instead, let’s have a look at the station instead.

a bit ugly. LOL

the scowl on the man’s face. but actually, they’re having a nice chat

safety isn’t really in his mind. NO, DON’T JUMP!! 

i wonder how father’s nowadays keep up, i am quite sure back then they don’t have computers. but kudos to this guy.

with so many kids… he must be kinda happy

crossroads

a grandfather and grandson moment.

well, i think that’s about it. didn’t do any photoshop on it, just me and my good ‘ol FM2n