13.1.09
Tilt-Shift Photography
stumbled upon an interesting photo manipulation technique called tilt-shift photography via drawn.ca today. basically it is a miniature faking method where a photo of a real object/scenery is manipulated to give the optical illusion of a scale model. tried it out on a few of my photos like the above. kinda cool no? i wanted to try more but discovered that i only have a small number of panoramic and scenery shots in my collection. dammit.
4.11.08
Tell a Lie

an interesting (and fun to shoot i think) series of photos by Henry Hadlow and Ed Cornish titled "tell a lie". the series mimics some common photoshop effects with a camera lens and some sense of humor imho. basically its lifesize photoshop ^_^.
"The most controversial lies told with photography today are those told by news photographers who manipulate their work photographs to tell a different story..." - Henry Hadlow
link: Henry Hadlow found via 2modern
25.2.08
Sungai Gabai Waterfalls
Waterfall!! yeah!! kebush kebush!!
OK, over-excited a bit. I have been neglecting this blog for quite sometime, so here comes a long overdue post.
Went to Sg. Gabai Waterfalls with some of my buddies yesterday. The main objective of collecting stuff for my yet to be built planted aquarium. You know, stones, rocks, driftwood, plants..the usual stuff. I ended up with some nicely shaped stones...about 10+ of them actually. Small to medium size, since we went quite the height to escape from large crowds and their "waste". So if I were to collect them HUGE rocks bringing them down is gonna be a problem (unless I can toss them in the waterfall and let the water do the work for me.. FORE!!! :D )
Now, the rocks aside, I did bring my camera along (for once) and got a few good shots. It ain't no SLR quality but I think its OK. As long as I'm happy with the pictures right? This shot above was taken on the way up. I was panting quite hard with the thin air and stair climbing (my fitness gone already maaa), so there was a bit of shaking. But I did manage to minimize the shake even with a camera with no vibration compensation.
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