Here is a Photoshop tutorial on how to turn a landscape photo into a fake miniature model.
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Archive for March, 2006
“It’s gone far enough,” said the President of the Association of Granters and Holders of Nearly Perfectly Useless Degrees, Bob (formerly Barbara) Cady-Stanton, in New York City. “People think it’s ‘concerned photography’ or ’socially relevant.’ Actually it’s just faux photojournalism of something handy that can’t fend for itself. It’s harder to take pictures of squirrels.”
Yes, we must listen to Barbara, no…, Bob. Sorry.
Instead, you should all start doing what the masters do - pay the boat people and ask them to take the boat out to a said position, during a certain timing with the lighting, and pose in a certain way until you say OK. Now that’s a hell of a lot tougher than shooting yourself in the mirror.
with this one.
It was my first and only experience on concert photography and it was way back on 26 Dec 2001, before my weblog time. I was digging through my pile of digital photos and just got to the photos taken within this period of time. So I decided to prep up a few and post them.
I haven’t been to many concerts and I can pretty well count them with one hand. Phil Collins, James Taylor, Santana, and Shino. Although this Shino’s concert was not a big one, the experience was most memorable. (Not counting this being the latest and loss of memory due to my old age.) Shino’s performance was superb and a slightly different edition of the songs from the version in her albums made it even more enjoyable.
I was like a kid with a new toy and took a gazillion number of photos; but like a kid without experience, not too many came out as good as I would like them.
I managed to pick 10 of my favorites from the pile and here they are.
if you are flying over africa? This is how…
Just saw the age old question surfacing again: Do you think of the glass being half full or half empty?
I’d like to think of it as just that - half. It is both. Neither just half full nor just half empty but both half full and half empty at the same time.
It is the time to work out, and beyond thinking about, the replenishing. Nothing too serious to cause any worries or alarms yet, just time to work things out.
Does it ever get fully filled? Figuratively speaking, yes. However, since I’d never go for the all-or-nothing, it is physically impossible to be fully filled. So, C’est la Vie.
Does it ever get completely emptied out? Maybe. But then so what? I still have the glass waiting to be refilled.
A 40 sqft ground floor shop in the heart of Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong just sold for HKD$15,800,000.-. That’s over HKD$390K/sqft or about USD$52K/sqft! Newspaper report in Chinese here.
At a 5% return rate, a monthly rent is calculated to be about HKD$66K, which is about 35% higher than the current rent for that particular shop.
On the other hand, at about HKD$1 per “fishball” - a local “delicacy”, assuming the cost for each fishball is negligible, one needs to sell 66K fishballs a month just to break even the rent alone. That averaged to be about 3 to 4 fishballs per minute over a 12 hour day. Hey! Just sell 2 to 3 skewers of fishballs a minute and you could be home free!
Today marks the 3rd anniversary of this weblog.
There are now 873 blogs here including this one, and 798 comments. Not quite a blog-a-day in average but I hope the photos are enough to make up the slack for now. Writing them have really helped me on keeping up with my (poor) English. I hope you all have enjoyed reading my blogs as much as I have been writing them, and I promise more to come.
Thank you all for your support, and with special thanks again to Tin who had setup everything for me back in 2003 and has given me so much courtesy support over the years. Much appreciated.
Keep those comments coming!
Cheers!
the 7 time F1 World Champion, Michael Schumarcher.
of your lens and camera combo. Here is a method and test chart.
WhaUSay?!