Archive for the ‘Photography, illustration & film’ Category

I know almost nothing about the technical aspects of camera. But in the process of photographing my lastest baking project, I discovered some neat tricks.

In the past, I tend to take indoor photos with lower shutter speed. However, I’m realizing when photos become too bright, it’s hard to enhance or manipulate afterward. With that in mind, I took my indoor photos with short exposure time. With the unusually bright natural light ont he backdrop, the photos came out with dramatic lights and shadows. Also, a lot more details were retained than when over-exposed.

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The technique doesn’t make good food photography, but certainly make this ordinary kitchen scene a lot more interesting.

Lately I’m addicted to Instagram. The app is easy to use, filters are nicely rendered. The mandatory account creation had me ignoring the app for a long time. But eventually I caved in.

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*Gasp!* I can’t believe I haven’t post our engagement photos yet. Recently I uploaded some on flickr. My photostream view counts went nuts. One of my favorites was Mango peeking into the camera. It is also many people’s favorite! Maybe it’s the curious little eyes, or the button nose, something about this photo melts my heart every time I look at it.

Yvonne Wong was the photographer, she did an amazing job capturing us in our home. I love both ktula and I look very comfortable in the shots, as if these are our day to day family photos. It makes me look forward to the future days to come. That to me is happiness.

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I ran into some charming insects prints on a UK home and garden website. That perked my interests to look for more similar kind of prints. And that’s how I ended up on Panteek.com.

Panteek specialized in genuine antique prints from England and other parts of Europe. David and Sue Panken run the online antique store. I also found out from Elle Decoration blog that they are based in Spokane. Yay for supporting local business.

The website has a 1980s look and feel (unfortunately not in a good way). Once I overcame the inconvenience of browsing the old fashion way, I was in treat for some stunning museum quality prints.

Being a huge fan of underwater world and exotic sea creatures, I was very happy to find the site’s enormous collection of fish, coral, and shellfish prints. One day when I find my dream home, I’ll decorate it with some of these lovely prints:

Starfish LAM103

Sea Urchins

Four Forked & Spinous Crab PEN8

Abalone, Volute, Limpet, Nautilus Shells, Octopus, Squid SCB20

Nasturtium TUR18

Geoffraea Tree LBO604

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Over the weekend I stumbled into The Library of Congress’ historical photos collections on Flickr. What a great find! I’ve being going through each and every one of the photos and reading descriptions and stories added by Flickr users just like myself.

Bravo to The Library of Congress, for reaching out to broader viewers leveraging popular online media.