Dexter's laboratory

Cats~

2011-03-09T02:45:00.001-08:00

Mini photoshoot

2010-07-25T05:45:00.000-07:00

Went to attend a wedding photography talk, and the organisers have 2 models to pose for us, FOC~

Cosplay and Macro

2010-07-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

Took some cosplay pics again at TGX Expo. Posted them here http://sgcafe.com/cosplay-gallery-general-events/74297-yamapi-tgx-complete.html

And some macro shots from my last outing at AMK park

Cosfest IX (2010)

2010-07-04T10:31:00.000-07:00

Busy weekend, I attended Cosfest IX @ Downtown East on both days. Took LOTS of photos.

I have an account at sgcafe.com the Singapore Cosplayers' forum. Already posted my pictures there, so not gonna double post them here (too many!)

Pls visit the threads to view the photos :)

Day 1 pictures:
http://sgcafe.com/cosplay-gallery-general-events/73511-yamapis-cosfest-ix-pics-warning-lots-photos-thread.html

Day 2 pictures:
http://sgcafe.com/cosplay-gallery-general-events/73629-pictures-cosfest-day-2-a.html

Updates

2010-06-27T21:04:00.001-07:00

Seems like I havent updated my blog for quite long already LOL.

Here are some pics I took last weekend :)

Moon pic again

2010-05-21T09:21:00.000-07:00

Saw the moon again while on my way home, so I took my tripod once i reached home and went out to take this shot.

Pic taken less than an hour ago~

Click on image for bigger sized picture.

Photoshoot

2010-05-02T09:00:00.000-07:00

Tried my hands on model shots today. Still learning how to use flash correctly, alot of my pics' exposure is out...

Here's some of the photos I took :)

Showing half ball~

2010-04-21T08:20:00.000-07:00

Ive been trying to take photos of the moon for the past few days, but cant seem to find it (too cloudy i think).

Finally justnow when I was going home, I managed to see the moon, so I faster went back and grab my camera out LOL.

Taken tonight 21 Apr 1042pm

Click on the picture for a larger view :)

Pets again~

2010-04-20T09:08:00.001-07:00

Nothing to do at home, making use of the freeloaders in my house LOL

Fierce Cat

2010-04-04T07:39:00.000-07:00

Was walking along Pasir Ris park when i come across this cat...

I think he dont like me...

moon

2010-04-01T10:32:00.000-07:00

Testing of moon photography. Click pic for a closer look.

Photo editing

2010-03-30T09:24:00.001-07:00

Just trying out my hands on some post processing.

How does this effect look?

Pets

2010-03-28T08:52:00.001-07:00

Just a few shots of the beasties in my house modelling for me :)

World Cosplay Selection round 27 Mar 10

2010-03-27T19:29:00.000-07:00

Arrived at the location late, didnt get a good spot so cant really take photos of the competition on the stage. I did took some photos of the cosplayers after the event though.

Random pics

2010-02-23T08:51:00.000-08:00

Just a few random pics I took recently LOL

Finally finished :)

2010-01-31T07:34:00.000-08:00

continue...

2010-01-31T04:33:00.000-08:00

More SOYB pics

2010-01-31T04:30:00.000-08:00

SOY "B" Cosplay event

2010-01-30T11:01:00.000-08:00

First cosplay event of the year, took quite a number of pictures today :)
Dont have time to post everything at once, so here are some of the pictures I took.

First post of 2010~

2010-01-09T06:32:00.000-08:00

Just realised I didnt update my blog for so long LOL. Didnt take much photos recently, cos no special events coming up, plus Im too lazy to wakeup in the morning to take photos :p

But I did took some today, just show these 3 for the time being.

EOY Cosplay at National Library

2009-12-26T22:05:00.000-08:00

Ok finally getting to the cosplay updates. Quite a number of pictures, so i'll update a few at a time starting with these first batch.

Rant: National Library is a bad place for cosplaying. Too many people walking around, background is very very messy. Most of my shots have very distracting backgrounds -_-"
And to make things worse, I overexposed alot of pictures due to giving my flash gun a +1.3 ev setting. The ceiling of the area where the cosplayers were at is pretty high, I thought my flash gun's output wont have enough power to bounce the light from that sort of height, so I compensated my flash with such a high power setting. End up over exposing so many shots. Should have stayed with my +0.7ev which i used most of the time in normal rooms...

So yeah, here's the pics. Most of them overexposed, with messy background...
I bought 2 cameras along that day, to test out my Minolta 5D as mentioned below.
Pictures taken here are from my Sony Alpha A500 , except the first picture which is taken with the Minolta 5D.

Special Mention:
Lightning from Final Fantasy 13. IMO she really looks like the character. Apparently im not the only one who thinks so, as the other photographers around me are saying the same thing.

The rest of the action:

Thats all for today. Will upload more pictures some other time :)

Chinese Garden Outing

2009-12-26T21:29:00.000-08:00

Here's the photos of the Clubsnap Chinese Garden outing I attended :)
First time attending an outing~

I realise that scenery shots are very much different from my usual photographic subjects like Street Photography, Portraiture, macro photography, so I was kinda lost, as in I donno what to take.... so these are just some of my random shots...

Bought a 2nd DSLR...

2009-12-26T08:02:00.000-08:00

Was surfing online on CHRISTMAS DAY and saw someone selling a cheap 2nd hand DSLR, a Minolta 5D. Since Minolta DSLRs are fully compatible with Sony Alpha lenses (after all, Sony Alpha DSLRs are made by Minolta), I decided to buy it as a spare body. The 5D body cost me only $250 (though i spend more than this, as I bought other accessories :p ), even cheaper than a compact camera!

Here's how a Minolta 5D looks like:

Here are some sample pics I took with the 5D. Note the overexposed pictures are entirely due to my poor control of my external flash (more on that in a later post).

IMO, the Minolta 5D's performance is as good as any currently entry level DSLRs in the market. Im merely using the camera's default settings, as I hv no time to go thru the manuals to change settings like colour saturation etc. Infact the 5D has some advanced functions that are not found in most entry level DSLRs, like build in Image Stabilizer (which makes any lens into a IS/VR lens), wireless flash commander (normall entry level DSLRs will need to buy a seperate wireless commander at $200+), Programme Shift and Depth of Field Preview button (a function found normally on advanced DSLRs). I dont think I cant find any better cameras for $250...

Edit: After looking thru all the photos taken with the Minolta 5D, i realise that the colour rendering of the camera is very "real life" like. Most DSLRs nowadays tends to over saturate the colours of the pictures. The pictures from the Minolta 5D is pretty much similar to what you see from your eyes in real life. No excessive colour saturation was done by the camera.

Dragons again

2009-12-10T08:19:00.000-08:00

Another dragonfly which posed happily for me today :)

Macro photography

2009-12-06T03:21:00.000-08:00

Wanted to try out macro photography, so i ordered a macro lens from Japan :)
Arrived a few days ago, and I took it out for a walk today.

Didnt managed to find any insects LOL, only captured these guys.

Bonfire Festival 27-28 Nov 09

2009-11-28T08:23:00.000-08:00

Just came back from the Bonfire Festival :)
Quite a nice event, I went there for both days ^^

Here are some photos that I took.

Anime Festival Asia 09

2009-11-22T08:33:00.000-08:00

Went to the Anime Festival Asia 09 this weekend ^^

The AFA is an annual event which features what guys love the most. Toys, Games, Animes, and girls! XD Its the event all guys should not miss LOL

Took alot of pictures for this event, but I wont be posting all at one go. So do check back every week to see new pictures~

Here's a few of the figurines i took during the AFA09

Concrete Jungle

2009-10-25T05:36:00.000-07:00

A jungle in our HDB :)

A walk with my Sony 70-300mm G lens

2009-10-25T05:32:00.000-07:00

Come across this squirrel at Pasir Ris park :)

Bought a new camera~

2009-10-20T08:27:00.001-07:00

Sold off my Sony Alpha A350 last week, and bought the latest Sony Alpha A500.

Took some sample pics these few days. Photos below are taken with a Minolta 70-210mm f4 aka Beercan lens.

Busy week

2009-10-08T07:40:00.000-07:00

Due to the extremely busy week, I didnt really hv time to take photos. So this is my only contribution for the week... T_T

Tilt-Shift Photography

2009-09-26T09:26:00.001-07:00

Trying out tilt-shifting photography.

Tilt-shifting means to transform a real life image to miniature figurine toy like.

These are my 1st attempts. As you can see its a pretty bad effort...

And a couple more shots from the Games Convention last week.

A very sweet looking girl at the Games Convention, who gladly smiled for the camera when i (secretly) tried to take a photo of her :)

Introduction...

2009-09-24T22:31:00.000-07:00

I started getting interested in photography recently, and has been going around taking photos. Still very noob in photography though lol. Ive setup this blog to post and share with everyone the pictures that I've took, the things that Ive seen and the places that Ive been to. Will TRY to update my blog at least once a week :p

Here are some of the past photos that Ive took last week, during the games convention.