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lomo love

Published on August 24, 2009 in me and stuff. 11 Comments Tags: , .

I love lomo. My love for lomography have grown more and more over this past 6 months.

What is it that I love about lomo? The blurry effect, the not so red-green-blue pictures a.k.a. blunt colors, the double exposures, the overexposed/underexposed effect; basically everything that is wrong to the “real” photography (according to some people I know).

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In my honest opinion, whether you’re using a DSLR, a semi-pro camera, a basic point-and-shoot, a worn out film camera, a lomography camera, a handphone camera or anything that captures a photo, it’s all about capturing the moment that is to your liking. No?

Some say your horizon has got to be straight when taking landscape photos. Some say that your photos have got to be sharp to a point where the pores of a person can be seen when the picture is blown up. Some say that the color blue of the sky has got to be a certain blue for the picture to turn out right. Some say the photos have got to follow some bell curve color thingy as calculated by the camera. If all fails to follow these simple rules, the photos are wrong.

Says who?

So what if the pics turn out to be a little blury? So what if the blue is not the right blue? So what if there’s a little flare in the picture? If everyone followed the rules, then everyone should be taking the same type of photos, right? Does that mean photography is a form of science where there’s a right thing for every type of picture?

To me, photography is an art. Art is something very subjective. Art is not 1+1=2. Art is nowhere near that. Some may like it, some may not. But who’s to say if that piece of art is right or wrong? What matters is the person who is making that art loves it (well, unless you’re making a living out of it and your clients have a certain expectation as to how they want their pictures to turn out…).

:) I’ve shared lomography photos with lots of people and I must say not many like the look of it. It didn’t matter to me, coz I love it big time. To me, it’s about seeing something beautiful through those flaws.

Oh well, it’s just me.

Pondering about getting a DSLR — so I can do all the wrong things in photography. :P

how can u not love the Internet?

Published on June 9, 2009 in hobbies, stuff and thoughts. 11 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

I think one of the bestest creation ever in the 20th century has got to be the Internet. I mean what’s not to love about the Internet? It gets you connected to anyone and everyone in this entire world. Talking to friends and families who stays halfway across the world is easy and affordable. It makes information travel further than it used to. It makes shopping all the more easier. You can now buy things off the web, stuff you can never get in your home country at an affordable price. The internet is an example of globalization; a world with no boundaries. Lovely.

Some may say that the Internet is evil and kids especially shouldn’t embark in the journey of embracing the world of technology. I wouldn’t deny the fact that the Internet has its evil side. But what doesn’t? Life has its evil side as well. Does that mean we shouldn’t live life? I don’t think so.

Information is endless in the Internet. By endless I mean infinite. Absolutely everything that you need is in here. Got a cork stuck in the wine bottle and don’t know what to do about it? Just google it! Your phone goes cuckoo and messages just couldn’t come in despite having good reception? Just google it! Need a recipe to cook for you beloved lover? Just google it! (oh and btw, I think Google is by far the bestest search engine ever — come on, we now use google as a VERB. THAT has got to mean something).

And then there’s this huge shopping mall online. I mean you can literally buy TONS of stuff online. To be honest, some of the stuff aren’t all that expensive. Try eBay. I’ve bought a watch off eBay once and the transaction experience was pretty good! Of coz it is more trustworthy to buy from a powerseller (it’s indicated next to the name of the seller), so watch out for that. Another cool website to get reasonably priced t-shirts is threadless; that is of course if you like cheesy, funny, cute (and some may be lame) type t-shirts (I LOVE IT!). It is most definitely one of a kind. Shipping the tees from the US is not all that expensive and owning this crazy tees is absolutely lovely (for me that is).

I’ve even bought a lomography camera off lomographyasia based in Hong Kong. The camera arrived in Penang in a mere 3 days. THREE DAYS! There are some local Malaysia shopping websites as well which I’ve had rather great experiences with; crossover, acmamall and shashinki. I know there are lotsa fraud cases when buying stuff off the Internet. I guess it pays to be careful and buy from more secure and trustworthy websites. And to be honest, it can be really safe and cool (coz you get to buy stuff that you can never find in your home country).

Internet allows us to pay bills from the comfort of our home, which is a huge deal for me. I absolutely hate queueing up to pay off my bills. Then there’s the whole blogging thing! That’s cool as well. It makes us learn from other people’s life and experiences and see things from others’ perspective. It rolls back to getting all the information we need about anything and everything. The cooler thing about blogs are it is written by real people. People just like you and me. Some even ended up being your friend. :)

…and don’t even get me started on Twitter. I am so hooked on it.

The stuff I talked about is just a tiny fraction of what makes the Internet so great. As evil as it may be, it is one of those creation that I am most thankful for. The Internet will only grow bigger. You have just gotta to learn to love it.

Writing this long post only shows how much I love the Internet. :P

more lomo

Published on April 27, 2009 in hobbies, me and travel. 0 Comments Tags: .
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looking out from the tram in hongkong

I’ve got my latest lomo pics. I have them uploaded to my flickr. Comment as you like. :)

I’m loving lomography more than ever. I’ve still got lots to learn. Quite a few pics turned out to be really dark. Lighting sure is important. If lighting is not enough, it’s important to hold that shutter longer – long enough for the lights to enter.

I’ve also learned that the Ilford xp2 400 film that has been expired for a good 12 years is still usable. Black and white pics turned out to be way cool. Now, I’m waiting for the Ricoh 500 RF to be fixed. Maybe that would be another good toy to play with.

p/s: I’m gonna whine a little. I need to go on a vacation soon. A week would be ideal.

my first set of lomo pics

Published on February 14, 2009 in hobbies, me and stuff. 10 Comments Tags: , .

Yay! I’ve got my first roll of lomo pics developed (taken using the Holga 120GN). Check out the rest of the pics here. It’s my first attempt, so some may turn out to be rather bad. But I’m excited to take more! From this first experience, I learned that the beauty of lomography lies in:

  1. the colors captured by the camera is just so different from a DSLR or a compact camera. I like! :P
  2. the idea of not knowing what sort of pictures to expect after pressing the button.
  3. the freedom of just picking up the camera and just shoot. I’ve officially ditched the viewer on the camera (coz it’s of no use). :) u just point, and u shoot.

I’ll be more than happy to receive any forms of critics, comments and advices from anyone who may know how to operate a lomo. Even if you don’t have any experience, u may have heard or learned how to take photos using a manual camera. All advices, comments, critics, good or bad are welcome!

Enjoy looking at the photos. I am just so ready to bring my lomo out of my housing area. *teehee*

Holga 120GN

Published on February 6, 2009 in hobbies, me and stuff. 4 Comments Tags: , .

It has arrived!

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I am completely clueless as to how this camera operates. But I am most definitely excited about taking that first shot. This will be the start of the lomo project I was talking about previously. *woot woot*

Click here to view some really Really REALLY nice Holga pictures. It’s soooo nice!

Here are some useful info on Holga itself.

Thank you so much. Thank you so very very much.

[update at 3.27pm] — I stupidly wasted one film coz I stupidly don’t know how to read the number ONE. :| yes, chiaoju is that dumb sometimes.

Lomo

Published on January 9, 2009 in stuff. 10 Comments Tags: .

I was thinking of making lomo into a project to work on this year — learn how to take lomo pictures. Lomo pictures are lovely. The effects are lovely. So old, so classic, so different, so exquisite.

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Here’s a Diana F+ camera. There’s more; Holga, LC-A+, FishEye, other lomo cameras and tons of accessories (I secretly want to own them all… *grin*). All lomo stuff can be bought off the web from the lomography website. It’s totally convenient and your lomo will arrive from HongKong in… 3 days! Way cool. I went all crazy when I saw the lomo cameras, accessories and books sold in C!ty Super, HongKong. Crazy crazy!

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Here are 2 pictures taken using the Diana F+. Not by me of coz. Click on the photos to go to the flickr page of the person who took these pics. Lomo pictures spell AWESOME out loud. At least for me it’s absolutely lovely. For more lomo pictures, check them out on flickr.

Lomo cameras go way back. Click here to read more.

I hope I can work on this with someone. Doing alone won’t be all that fun. After all, the Diana F+ is just sitting around.

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