丹妮的short short ground

house warming 的大禮

2008-12-17T03:36:00.000-08:00

近來, 朋友到仇人的家中作客, 丹妮有以下幾個建議:
1. 一入屋, 扮作好興奮, 唔除鞋, 行入屋, 仲要行到佢屋企的每一處
2. 記住high 粒鼻屎0係佢睡房張床
3. 食雞翼時, "不小心"跌左條雞骨, 大腳踢到佢sofa底, 有咁入踢咁入
4. 食薯片時, 不停講不停講, 周圍噴出薯片碎
5. 打開佢雪櫃, 將佢冰箱d食品, 放入下層
6. 臨走時, 0係佢個新屋toilet爆大石
7. 如果仲覺得未夠, 同佢既鄰居看更講佢既惡臭事

海報3年展

2008-01-29T07:06:00.000-08:00

為左彌補當年會考時A&D幾乎唔合格(其實本身既指數=0), 某一日去左城中的國際海報3年展, 每張海報都相當賞心悅目.

小妹最心動的是本地傑作- heromoism (毛*英雄主義)

日本的創作也非常驚喜:

還有鬼佬出品的...

跟走私客與螢火蟲相伴的一晚

2007-08-28T23:20:00.000-07:00

0係flickr認識了幾位公公婆婆影友, 其中一個granny係退休banker, 有一個係瑞典grandpa, 打算去晒泰越柬三角, 有一個更是great grandma, 有2個great grandchilden. 從不同的渠道, 都看過婆婆大學畢業, 公公唔識英文去南極睇企鵝... 到達如斯年齡, 仍有如此衝勁, 真是很大的福氣. 反而自己就想多過做 ---- 唔得再咁, 於是今晚就決定外影, 玩d新野. it's better to regret what u hv done than what u havent (paul arden講). 最後, 月全蝕呢晚就決定去流浮山(所以不排除受到月球引力的影響).

放左工,返到屋企, 飯都唔食就撲出去啦, 心知不用趕時晨的, 又不是去catch magic hour, 反正越夜越美麗. 很享受這種久違的急不及待心情. 去到流浮山時, 其實已經入黑了. 我開著小電筒, 四周亂掃一番, 剛好有2位大叔正在蠔灘修理機械, 其中一位用大燈照了我兩下後說:

"你去邊呀?"

我手指指說:"去果邊之麻..."

大叔: "你一個女仔去果度做乜!? 呢度夜晚好多人走私架, 上個星期六先周左班人... 你仲拎住個電筒仔周圍照... 唉..." 一邊說,我感覺到佢好似擰住頭講野咁...

"哦..." 除了這個字, 我還能說什麼?!

大叔: "地下乜野都有, 好危險的...." "你去果邊嗎? 唉, 我照住你行喇..."

我覺得大叔其實是苦口婆心的, 忽然間, 幻想到大叔有三個仔女, 佢大大下時就唔聽佢話了, 而且仲當佢冇到的....

有大叔照住, 我去到想去的位置, 影了好幾張野. 其實已經過了一個多小時了.... 大叔也收工了, 但我還有好幾個trial shot未試, 當自己一個人時, 心裡真的有點不安的. 幸好, 飛來幾隻螢火蟲陪伴住. 這是我第一次看見螢火蟲, 很可愛啊, 心才安定下來. 就是這樣, 過了一粒鐘... 影了幾張沒有月亮的月全蝕夜照片.... 最後安全番到屋企.

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以上是一個多月前的事...

more recently :

上個週末, 行行下入左去一間vcd shop, 見到做特價的一欄內有vcd的女主角好似鄭中基, 我指住問朋友是否鄭中基扮女人的電影, 細看之下(我們看了5秒先發現!)竟然係一隻4仔. O-M-G-! 4仔,工具影碟是也! 我想像不到會有雄性朋友會以鄭中基為對象吧! 女主角的樣貌如此, 心想怪不得落入特價貨一堆中!

更奇怪的是, 臨走時, 我再瞧特價貨埋一眼, 鄭中基局然比人買走了!

乒乓絕交

2007-08-27T01:08:00.000-07:00

weekend去了朋友家作客, 亨用會所設施當然成為指定動作. 友達某大叔一來, 就說自己屎急... 0那就去應約call of the nature吧! 大叔又推說自己不能控制云云...

乒乓場上,我與大叔是一隊, 大叔的太太一見佢上場,立即戴上電單車的頭套,大家的危機觸角於是醒來,不詳預感是也. 我補充一下, 打羽毛球時,大叔既target係對住對手的面打的,我地(唔單止丹妮)每次接唔到球,都會被打到臉的!!! 我諗下次要以周生的語氣同佢講: 打還打,千祈唔好打面呀大叔!

講番乒乓波,大叔就向著對手的身打,打到對手呱呱叫; 其中一個朋友於國內工作,工餘就係乒乓. 國內,高手雲集,他可以說是被國家隊訓練出來...可惜都敵不過大叔! 我明白到接唔到佢的波就要即時閃開, 這是打波的另一境界.

之前,丹妮一直都不喜歡打乒乓,但是經過星日之後, 完全改觀, 還約大家下次再來!
乒乓---好玩呀!

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ps 剛剛友達報告外面見工情況,原來有d老闆選人時,要考慮面試者的出生時晨....咁迷信的人9成都是不可理喻的!不做也罷! (可惜,友達已經給了他的8字... 從另一方面睇, 如果你唔旺佢, 你都唔會有chance, 佢最後真係請左你,就一定信你旺佢,可能齋坐0係office都有價值)

Pabuk (trial)

2007-08-25T22:56:00.001-07:00

Pabuk, originally uploaded by ★danise★.

打8號風球果時出去影的 (今次試用另一方法upload, 又得wor!). 早放工, 就約埋d朋友出去. 好驚險的一次.

遠遠超越$180的樂趣

2007-08-19T20:09:00.000-07:00

(Holga 120GN - from flickr.com/photos/jaems)

家陣先來玩holga, 似乎真係落後左d. 不過, 真係估唔到, 一個價值$180的120GN, 係可以帶給人咁興奮同咁開心既心情. holga有2個format可選: 6x6 (一張相的菲林是6cm x 6cm,是一般用的菲林24x36mm足足四倍咁大) or 6x4.5, 太好了,現在我只用6x6; 近來迷上了square format, 明明用landscape/portrait format來影的相, 也一定crop到正正方方(cropped square format), 扮晒野咁話啦! 現在終於可以明正言順影true square format了!

holga係fixed shutter time and fixed focal length 既機, 換言之, 每次的曝光時間都是硬的(1/100s). 多重曝光(multiple exposure)又非常易操作, 只要不拉卷就可以. focal length都係fix 0係60mm(equivalent to 35mm camera的40mm左右吧!), roughly相等一隻眼睛所能望到的angle of view再闊一點. 光圈只有f8同f11, 兩個亦都係好common用到的setting.

要set focus, 仲簡單. 佢0係機身上mark左人,樹,山等符號代表不同的focus distance. 用holga影,因為係toy camera grade既關係, 影出來的都係soft focus, 所以如果好似龍友們追求sharp sharp sharp, 那你就一定很失望了---- 不用太認真吧!

加上一個特製的shutter wire 連adaptor, 就可以用B快門了. long exposure 同double exposure都係近來想多多explore的, 用holga就完全可以滿足這要求了!

而且holga本身又出了自家用的filter. 幾廿蚊就有一set, 個holder都係10蚊有找!

不得不介紹佢有出品35mm菲林的holder! 之前看過網上有人介紹用medium format camera來影全景相(panoramic photo), 就是這樣了. 嚴格來說, 此方法並非true panorama, 雖然如此, 但也十分過癮呀!

我最愛他輕巧(200g ja!一隻手指都拎得起!), 方便, 又易用及多變化.

之前, 問了paul借了一部medium format 的camera來玩, 個名叫Mockba-5, Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta C的copy, 佢地就叫佢做M5, 叫叫下, 就當左佢係同Leica的M系同宗(傳聞d大話講一千次就成真!). 現在仍未物歸原主(好似某d地主,霸霸下就有可能屬於自己了---無賴...講笑).

就於這次經驗, 學識了上菲林等. 有件事, 始終都未太過到, 就係把影完的菲林封口時, 要用到口水. 所以, 我盡量都避免去碰別人影完的那卷菲林.

網站推介:
http://www.allisonvsmith.com/
Allison係based in美國Dallas的photographer, 佢多數以哈仔及holga影相,最欣賞佢懂得以簡單幾何構圖, 既simple 又 strong. 佢就係我近來學習的對象.

(Mockba 5 - from camerapedia.org)

Sexy Hassie

2007-08-08T19:58:00.000-07:00

(from www.hasselblad.com)

簡直令人腎上腺素急速上升!

1. 2. 3

2007-08-08T00:14:00.000-07:00

同事系列 - sexy gradE

2007-08-05T23:48:00.000-07:00

朋友的公司office有個做了兩年的GradE(工程見習生). 女孩子來的. 從英國學成歸來, 都算sexy. 話說有一次, 有個E(工程師)路過, 撩她說話:

E: xx, 好忙呀.... 你搞緊d乜呀?
G: 點呀扑街?

怎料GradE第一句就如此狠, 個E都當然嚇了一跳.

E: 乜妳咁講野架.
G: 有問題咩?!我叫你個名之0麻!

附近的同事聽到, 都忍不住笑了出來.

大魚賴爸爸

2007-07-19T02:14:00.000-07:00

住我隔離的姓賴, 賴家的爸爸可算是看著我長大, 當我未入幼稚園時, 與dan爸搬入去現在住緊間屋, 他看見賴家的膠地板綠得很順眼, 於是買同色同款, 兩家人一地都是綠色, 連我家的鐵閘也跟賴家一樣的. 直至數年前大裝修屋企兩家才不同.

賴爸有2個兒子, 大仔今年剛剛考入去做差人, 細仔是消防員. 從很多年前搬入去開始, dan媽叫他們做"賴屎仔". 老實說,每次都搞不清楚她講是大的賴屎仔還是細的賴屎仔. 但他們都叫我做嘉嘉姐姐.

賴爸最近養了隻狗, 就暫且跟少主人一樣叫佢賴屎狗啦. 叫牠做賴賴屎狗還有另一原因. 賴賴屎狗雖然是一頭黑色的大狗, 但大大的身軀下, 原來勁膽小. 於是, 有一次就走去嚇鑊牠. 很簡單, 向牠方向快跑2步, 嚇得牠立即跑回飯廳內賴屎. 賴爸就笑牠膽小得要命, 真是一頭賴屎狗!

賴爸的人緣不錯, 為人又風趣, 我差不多每天返工都遲到, 多數都在樓下撞到他, 他說:"你今日要返學咩,放暑假啦... 死喇,你今次一定訓留堂喇..." 他跟大魚傳說入面的爸爸d相似的地方, 就是成日都亂吹水. 於我家附近的水牛嶺公園一向都是區內晨運好地方, 公園內有棵蕉樹, 傳聞好孟鬼的. 賴爸說有一次晨運之後坐在蕉樹下的長椅, 聽到有把聲音說:你~唔~好~坐~住~我~隻~手~呀~.... 如此爆笑的鬼故事,局然有dan媽如此信徒!

Acquario by Art Wolfe

2007-07-15T07:16:00.000-07:00

Fire in the sky

2007-07-12T19:41:00.001-07:00

, originally uploaded by ★danise★.

似唔似個天著火!

年齡,修女,牛排

2007-07-10T07:53:00.000-07:00

1. 年齡

作家王爾得的名言(我唔知佢係邊個來架!) -----"會告訴人家自己實際年齡的女人,最不值得信賴. 女人如果連自己的年齡都敢說,那她什麼其他的話都敢講了."

我諗落又覺得佢好0岩. 平時成日都大大聲咁講自己今年幾多歲, 又真係乜都講得出口... 聯想到朋友的ah b,有一次,特登企上張椅上好大聲好自豪的叫: 我-賴-左-尿-呀-!! 搞到屋企人好embarrassed,童言無忌,似乎也同出一徹.

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2. 修女 (aka Nacho Libre 真人版)

Nacho Libre 入面由Jack Black主演的神父,愛上了修女,為了替教會的孤兒籌集生活經費,實現自己的理想,成為了摔角手!

換來現實版的, 是一名叫娜拉(Noella Marcellino)的修女.

一向以來對神職人員都有一顆"敬畏"之心, 覺得他們傳統得來又神聖. 原來0係connecticut的某間church入面的修女,在俗世時都是律師,CEO,學者,artist等的人,她們的知識智慧水平加埋,可能已經超越康港李氏企業的管理層了!(所以,"peak"除我邪惡的心,我想我做修女都做唔到!)其中一個,就是這個Noella修女了!

Noella出家時去進修,她最叻的, 就是做cheese,被人稱為the cheese nun. 原來要做好cheese,係一件非常複雜的事,因為太多情況可以出錯,令到unwanted的菌滋生,製造出不需要的味道. Noella能做出最好味的傳統活cheese,已經在cheese界出晒名,the new york times都訪問佢!還有一部紀錄片描述佢發明做cheese方法既經過 (http://www.amazon.com/Cheese-Nun-Sister-Noella-Marcellino/dp/B000FGG62K)...

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3. 牛排

如果你同我一樣有這個疑問,希望你睇完呢段之後,唔好自己嘗試一番.

-----唔知點解0係高級餐廳的牛排永遠都好味過自己整果d咁?

原來d牛肉會放入個冷櫃(高溫過零度架!)入面,放幾個星期. 幾星期後,牛肉表面通常上都會發晒霉,厚厚的,而果d脂肪會變成奶白色的. 要把那些霉清除之後,先煮來食.d肉變得好味,唔係因為果d霉,而係因為酵素. 隻牛瓜左,屍身變得僵硬,之後細胞內的酵素會做野,令牛屍的肌肉鬆弛同分解,於是食落去口感好d!

PS 哈哈,呢樣可以試---果汁都有類似的作用,聽講以kiwi juice的效果最好,30分鐘夠晒!
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PPS 冇錯, 這個blog的3個主題---年齡,修女,牛排, suppose是沒有關係的---完.

Silhouette of Diamond Hill District

2007-07-08T21:37:00.001-07:00

Silhouette of Diamond Hill District, originally uploaded by ★danise★.

after receiving my new babie for 1+ month, i finally took it with me and had a few shots in a hot hot summer weekend. (otherwise, by brot will take it from me!!!) this is by the swing-head widelux F7 hehe

A "lonesome" cloud among the clouds

2007-06-26T08:24:00.001-07:00

A "lonesome" cloud among the clouds, originally uploaded by ★danise★.

似唔似一舊shit?

Dragon Boat Festival in Firecrackers 07'

2007-06-26T08:23:00.001-07:00

Dragon Boat Festival in Firecrackers 07', originally uploaded by ★danise★.

爆竹龍

Niki de Saint Phalle

2007-06-14T07:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.nikidesaintphalle.com/

http://www.niki-museum.jp/

http://www.jgmgalerie.com/

http://www.nikidesaintphalle.de/

狂風暴雨中

2007-05-29T02:48:00.000-07:00

星期日(27/5/07), 又再次去練習滑浪風帆. 早上, 無風無浪又無引, 天氣又悶熱, 加上身體有點唔舒服, 如果唔係要儲鐘, 真係寧願訓下覺好過!

食完午飯後, 在回water sports centre途中, 下起雨來. 一面在太陽傘下避雨, 一面看著單車店太子在面前表演單車技兩, 單車飄移, 舉起前輪駕駛... 等了10多分鐘, 又開始起程了!

下午,天氣最初反覆無常, 個天一定很討厭我, 每次準備出海時, 又下起雨來. 最後等了大半個小時, 終於決定出海了.

自下午開始, 中心都是掛著黃旗, 即是迎岸活動only. 當正要飛去油臺時, 發覺一舊黑雲從大埔方向邊下著雨邊飄過來, 而且仲帶著閃電的; 不久, 仲聽到打雷0冬0冬聲. 在這個時候, 另一舊雨雲從南中國海跑過來. 整個天都變成灰色, 海面的倒影也是灰色的, 於是成個世界變得深沉了; 加上不停的閃電和打雷, 好像世界未日降臨了. 我剛剛駛埋岸, 突然四周都靜下來; 前後不到2分鐘, 天氣來個180倒轉, 原來大風雨前是這樣的! 跟著下起雨來, 雨點很大, 打在身上很痛, 各人都紛紛收板收帆. 我一個人不夠力氣, 等待朋友來幫手, 我叫身邊的老外先搬帆上去, 我就替他看著塊板. 當時, 大家都不分你我, 互相幫助收拾. 紅旗終於掛上了! 很久沒有感覺到危險包圍著自己.

Hunan ... 6 (火燒雞雞)

2007-05-14T21:07:00.000-07:00

前文提過的火燒雞雞, 有朋友問我係乜野泥, 為乜睇到眼都突. 就係以下咁:

(P影的火燒雞雞相)

Hunan 5 ...乜我個樣真係咁蠢嗎?

2007-05-13T07:01:00.000-07:00

t.b.c.

滑浪紅豬俠

2007-05-13T06:14:00.000-07:00

今天, 本來人強馬壯的water team得番4個人去practise 滑浪風帆, 我更因懶搽sunblock,今晚發覺自己晒得紅卜卜, 濕水都覺得有點點尺痛, 成隻燒豬咁, 今次大穫了!

之前計劃過, 每一次要用比上次大點的帆, 所以今次grade用4m2帆. 回想起上年, 多得terence的guidance同teammate既鼓勵, 由最初的2.5m2帆, 到3.2m2, 現在到4m2, 希望今個暑假去到6m2. 原因係想好好應付中級班(L2). 上年,有朋友見到王合喜當中級班的instructor,這個一定係water team的願望(如果丹妮係代表晒所有人). 對丹妮來說, 橫掂都係肥佬, 死0係個麻luck佬手上, 不如死0係個靚仔教練手上, 死而無憾.

最想最想的, 係可以參加1-day trip, 而1-day trip既要求係有L2証書. 咁同level 1有乜分別:

-L2用的是short board, 靈活性高; L1用的是long board, 主要係穩定性好
-L2是用6m2帆, L1的是3.2m
-L2仲要學用harness(即圖中搏住個帆同條腰的那個)

如果以我現在用的器材+技術, 我估一個1-day trip, 我要用3 day的時間, 但好可能會流落荒島,過著cast away 的生活!

PS 時常都見d小朋友,得果幾歲,都未到我夾la底咁高,而且仲瘦過雞腳,好似mini-火柴人咁, 都已經master到大帆同short board, 就覺得好多野都冇藉口!

(以味皇的語氣講)好味啊!

2007-05-06T21:15:00.000-07:00

無意之間, 找到幾個超霸美味的blog, 一路睇, 都忍唔住一路留口水 :P``` --->家陣已經滿口口水了!

口水推介:
http://readandeat.wordpress.com/
http://foodclash.wordpress.com/
http://blog.pixnet.net/espwong
http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/

It's all about eating in Fenghuang

2007-04-29T02:14:00.001-07:00

It's all about eating in Fenghuang, originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Monster Fight Round 2! (created by pei gor)

2007-04-24T21:11:00.000-07:00

pei gor 好勁! 大家有冇留意到8年前的sticker photo入面果2隻手指, 係pei gor ga!

************************

Terminal Fight!!!!!!

Monster Vs Ghost
Venue : 周公館
Date : 28 - April - 07
Time : 2:15pm

8年前，兩雄相遇在貼紙機前，定下一決雌雄之約...

8年後再遇，妖怪士丹利先佔主場之利
但魔鬼大丹揚言，要一round就張對手KO........

大家快d黎見證依場 8年後既終極對決

Hunan 4 ... 咪都影穫勁

2007-04-23T08:51:00.000-07:00

一團5人共有7部相機, 係咪都影一餐飽的, 本來30分鐘的路程, 足足行左2個鐘都唔止. 0係d唔知乜野地方又影一大餐!

呢張相係0係一條unofficial的路途中影的. 呢條路, 已經極少遊人會行. 導遊講以前曾有一對夫妻在那裡被殺, 那個地方又真係有點陰陰森森的感覺. 題外話: 當導遊講述時, 誤以為他說: "這裡只有枯枝和沙(音似"夫妻被殺"的普通話), 沒什麼好看...", 而當時四周又真係有好多枯枝, 大家也信以為真... 之後, 我地一見沿路有枯枝, 便會大叫"枯枝枯枝" --- 另一撲朔迷離的事也!

Hunan 3 ... 火燒雞show

2007-04-23T08:19:00.000-07:00

話說, 有一晚, 我地睇左個show, 之後就上晒身, 不停手指指, 欲罷不能! 對著有手指型的山脈, 仲越做越起勁(見下圖s)! 當晚, 仲有個"火燒雞"的表演, 意思就係有個男生, 表演用火燒手, 腳, 作出吞火噴火等表演... 最後, 還舉起火棒, 燒他的雞雞, 真不忍看, 一直都是一個正經的表演, 突然之間卻做出那麼xx的事來>_< ... 原來人是真的很脆弱的, 一夜之間經過數次連環驚嚇, 我們就嚇到short晒了 :D

火燒雞(正常時)的其中一幕:

還有另一場恐怖場面:

Hunan ...2 Fenghuang Ancient City

2007-04-23T08:09:00.000-07:00

包大媽係一個好和藹可親的婆婆, 佢仲好smart, 見我地當中少左個, 就知佢係去左拉屎, 不過佢冇諗過租房間比我地自己會比人小整古.

Hunan ...1 出發前/旅行途中

2007-04-23T08:01:00.000-07:00

回應14 年

2007-04-21T04:18:00.000-07:00

睇完皮哥最近的blog, 心裡覺得很感動, 我地雖冇幾億身家但覺得已經很富有(在心中)了; 第一時間已forward比大家.

PS這篇很old soil, 收筆了 :P

大家點睇

2007-04-19T23:10:00.000-07:00

幾時? 同有冇other suggestions?

lazy 丹 writes:

丹妮說:
係wor, 如果去唔成travel, 我地都找個大function搞 for this year?
St☆n St☆n 說:
仲以為妳話tim~
St☆n St☆n 說:
travel=大function
丹妮說:
係14 年既相識--痛苦的14 年終於捱過了
丹妮說:
travel, 大ar
丹妮說:
上太空, 仲大
丹妮說:
不過, 要save $先
St☆n St☆n 說:
hahaha~ 14年後重光紀念日~~
丹妮說:
可能我地later夠$將恐龍戰隊的bone灰, fly 晒上太空
丹妮說:
重未, 未知, 捱過左14 years, 已經可以係話乜都唔怕了
St☆n St☆n 說:
hahaha~妳ｄbone灰重d~未必fly 得上太空～

丹妮說:
ｄbone同體重, 唔係成正比ga
丹妮說:
一日未燒, 都唔知邊個重d
St☆n St☆n 說:
已經可以係話乜都唔怕了．．．．right, 連鬼都唔驚~
丹妮說:
恐龍打鬼, 又係一個好game
丹妮說:
係wor, 幾時上your home play wii
丹妮說:
找個sat pm?
丹妮說:
play完, 又可以dinner
St☆n St☆n 說:
anytime~
丹妮說:
or call delivery
St☆n St☆n 說:
永遠守候們來臨~
丹妮說:
=D
丹妮說:
我可以prepare 一d punishment既game
丹妮說:
e.g. 做某d指定動作
St☆n St☆n 說:
好~~
丹妮說:
其實已經prepare左 =D 未有機會拎出來用
丹妮說:
一於找個sat la
St☆n St☆n 說:
係?!期待期待~

My summer has come!

2007-04-19T08:03:00.000-07:00

雖然easter時, 氣溫跌到10年來的四月新低點, 但我今年的夏天已經開始了! :)

上星期天, 終於與"水友們"去大美篤練習練習, wake帆的事, 已差不多忘記了一半. 唯一相用的是, 仍用3.2m2帆----全場最細的; 但各人已升級到4m2, 5m2等等, 加演同場一班細路上緊Level 2 (或improvement clinic), 還未變聲未步入青春期的細路也用6m2帆, 有d羞慚, 發誓下次要用4m2, 再下次要用5m, 好好準備來緊Level2時用的6m2帆.

下午, god of wind都同我地一樣食飽lunch, 終於起風了; 於是有咁遠去咁遠. 大美篤附近有個魚牌, 進入魚牌的路, 因有幾個山圍住, 風從山巒中吹出來, 又有勁(不過最後填log book時, center人都話今日係BF0-1 only!), 又有小許變化, 真唔錯, 於是就駛過去瞧瞧. 聽講, 有個friend話我: "佢傻左呀, 仲乜去咁遠呀"! 我果時邊聽到, 緊係飛左去啦. 以前上堂, 呀sir叫我呢d做"飛女", 就係咁解.飛到魚牌附近，船家紛紛走出來，應該係怕我撞到ｄ養住d魚魚既網! 哈哈，我都唔會想入左去, trap住出唔返來啦!

之後，勁喇，我指飛行服務隊．對住個海大叫防止山火云云---- 低b! 又低飛，又長氣，又大聲，講野又一舊舊!

Farming by the gap of the mountains

2007-04-17T08:52:00.001-07:00

Farming by the gap of the mountains, originally uploaded by ★danise★.

as a geotechnical engineer, what i m thinking of is FOS, possible tension cracks, water infiltraion, slip plane starts just in front of the house(!?), landslides, wet season, DH order, soil nailing?! ... AND u know... the slope looks like over 1000 m in height!

梨花 Plum Flowers (?)

2007-04-12T10:15:00.001-07:00

梨花 Plum Flowers (?)
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Sunset in Zhang Jia Jie

2007-04-12T10:14:00.001-07:00

Sunset in Zhang Jia Jie
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Zhang Jia Jie

2007-04-11T09:20:00.001-07:00

Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

this is the first attempt to shoot IR! fun! :) this pic's a bit less eerie than the IR photos i hv seen on web. probably bcos the IR cut is quite good on D200. the ccd only captures the residual portion of ir waves?!

Beatrix Potter's Watercolors

2007-04-11T05:59:00.000-07:00

Watercolour of Hill Top from Beatrix Potter's sketchbook

Gwaenynog, Denbighshire

Waterlilies on Esthwaite Water, 1906

The Toads' Tea Party: ca. 1905

A Stream in Scotland

2007-03-27T06:21:00.001-07:00

A Stream in Scotland
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

anyone knows the name of this place again?

A Castle on the Water

2007-03-22T02:23:00.001-07:00

A Castle on the Water
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

visited there on the 1st day of a 3-day trip in Scotland. it was at dusk when we arrived. if u can tell the name of this place, pls let me know .

Scotch Lamb - does it look like a human face, huh?!

2007-03-16T03:44:00.001-07:00

Scotch Lamb - does it look like a human face, huh?!
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Dusk in Edinburgh

2007-03-10T09:52:00.003-08:00

Dusk in Edinburgh
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Edinburgh Silhouette

2007-03-10T09:52:00.001-08:00

Edinburgh Silhouette
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Vietnam ... 10 (Red chillies)

2007-03-08T21:45:00.001-08:00

Red peppers
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

and red chillies as well.... wow, some like it hot!

Vietname ... 9 (Limes)

2007-03-08T21:44:00.001-08:00

Limes
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

quite some of vietnamese food would go with lime juice. yummi!

Vietnam ...8 - a pretty tribal girl

2007-03-06T23:16:00.001-08:00

Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

this pic was taken in a thai/thay (?) village. i could see the adult women dyed their teeth in black. they believed it could make them more attractive. being a little girl, her teeth 's still WHITE! :)

a friend asked me if the vietnamese girls were beautiful... i think so; even in tribal villages where they didnt hv beautiful clothings. they're also talented in languages as well. i wonder where the villagers got educated. the hostess could even express herself well in english... while we chatted, we could at least understand what she was talking.

i stayed in a Red Zao house for one night during the trip. a canadian called chris had come to that village and taught them how to run a homestay for tourists so as to get them away from proverty.

Annecy, France

2007-03-01T22:13:00.001-08:00

Annecy
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Hotel de Ville, Lyon, France

2007-03-01T22:12:00.001-08:00

Hotel de Ville, Lyon, France
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Cote d'Azur

2007-03-01T22:11:00.001-08:00

Cote d'Azur
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

how wonderful it is if i spend an afternoon on a beach...

祝大家金豬年(煙)花開富貴又榮華

2007-02-21T07:20:00.000-08:00

A shy boy in a village

2007-02-17T09:27:00.001-08:00

A shy boy in a village
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

my dear friends, i think i've mentioned this shy boy to some of u. he's that one in an used girl's tee. when he saw us going around this village, which seemed like a ruined and relatively poorer one, he was curious and hided himself behind this column and tried to find out what we were doing there. i shot him with a mid tele, which means i was actually at quite a distance from him. even so, as u can see, he's so nervous about us.

A nice farm woman

2007-02-17T09:22:00.001-08:00

Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Preparing for rice plantation

2007-02-17T09:21:00.001-08:00

Preparing for rice plantation
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

HDR

2007-02-15T19:17:00.001-08:00

http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_1.htm

Wedding photojournalism..."2nd"

2007-02-15T02:52:00.000-08:00

身為兄弟既我,因遇到一班又靚又好心地的姊妹,於是逃過這兩刧...

Vietnam ...4 (the Red Zao girl)

2007-02-13T06:17:00.001-08:00

DSC_2791p
Originally uploaded by ★danise★.

Vietnam ...3 (Feet is all around!)

2007-02-13T06:09:00.000-08:00

(click to enlarge)

The first 2 pics were shot in the sunday Bac Ha Market, which is around 2-3 hours by car from the Sapa town. I took the last one in an evening in the sapa market. The brown thing on the middle pic, what do u think? ... i guess it's brown sugar cube!

Lau Fou Shan

2007-02-06T07:17:00.000-08:00

when i shot, heard someone shouted: "個咸蛋黃好靚呀!" :)

織織復織織

2007-02-06T05:43:00.000-08:00

i made this scarf for my god-daughters, natalie and sophia. sophia can use it this year and it'd be natalie's turn next year :)

IR

2007-02-06T05:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/infrared/e500.html

Vietnam ...2 (Hanoi)

2007-02-01T06:01:00.000-08:00

Vietnam is a fast growing country since the past 15 years. it was once a french colony. Hanoi is its capital city. everything is moving fast, its economy, its development as well as the motorbikes and the people...

Vietnam ...1 (My god-brother & I)

2007-02-01T05:51:00.000-08:00

my god brot is a very interesting and creative amateur photographer. he's also one of my oldest friends that we knew each other since 3 or 4 years old!

He and I together with another two friends finally went on a trip to Hanoi and the northern part of vietnam (the region around Sapa) in Dec last year. It was VERY harsh but very fun!

This photo was shot in a village school in sapa. Yes, the locals used some kind of bamboo to build this school, which can only provide them with a shaded area, but not protection against the rains. What we think is the children there usually gifted with talent in languages. They could pick up things quicker than we expected. They were curious and shy.

Stanley

2007-01-29T08:58:00.000-08:00

You, Inc.

2007-01-24T19:40:00.000-08:00

DNA. Dependability. Novelty. Attitude.

- From "http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/assessment/Develop_Your_Personal_Brand__20061026-101049.html?subtopic=Career+Assessment+Tips"

Lazy

2007-01-23T00:34:00.000-08:00

(central, HK, 19/1/07)
影相唔懶, 但執相懶, 很久都沒有公開相片. 就upload呢張作為record.

(...coming: wedding photojournalism)

Pinhole challenge

2006-11-03T07:09:00.000-08:00

Competition Details

Pinhole challenge - Due on 25/11/2006 (can i finish it by then?!)
There are two (2) phases for this competition:

Phase 1: To make the pinhole camera
Phase 2: To use the camera you made for photography

Please visit the following URL for the camera we are making:
http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html

All material will be standardised and they will be provided to you (Stiff Paper & film)*, there will be no difference in material for each of the candidate.
*something changed later, anyone can use their preferred film and paper :-)

Please treat it as a project and try to document everything you did, each of the candidate will have to make a quick presentation (5 mins per candidate).

Judging will be done by the President of CPSA, aka David Fok :-)

Judging consideration
1. The presentation (30%)
2. The camera (20%)
3. The prints (50%)

Recording bits of my plan

Presentation
Slide 1 Self-portrait (upside down) as b/g, title + name + date
Slide 2 Rules & Regs (what were we making... how)
Slide 3 Materials
Slide 4 Critical issues for making the camera
a. blockage of external lights (sealing at different points), sealing with cloth?/paper?
b. Make the pinhole sharp (exact 4mm, material, making the hole) ->sharper & cleaner image
c. build of the camera
Slide 5 Here comes my first Dirkin
Slide 6 Pinhole photography (subject? choice of film... what ISO? properties & similar of Foma 21 DIN? exposure control??)
Slide 7 [thank you]
(+voice?)

Blurred vs Sharp; Articificial vs Natural

2006-11-01T23:58:00.000-08:00

While a lot of amateur photographers are chasing for sharpness in photos, if we take a look at the advertising pages and the poster of the worldly brands, like agnes b, what we see are out-of-focus images (and/or) motion blurs etc., which deviates exactly oppositely to the road to sharpness.
what does it mean to u?

10 macro tips

2006-10-29T08:13:00.000-08:00

http://louisdallara.com/wordpress2/?p=6

a website of travel log books

2006-10-11T01:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.democraticbooks.org/HTML/books.htm

linear vs circular polarizer

2006-09-27T08:37:00.000-07:00

http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/polarizers.shtml

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1024&message=6913931:

A linear polarizer has a single plate for polarizing the incoming light. When this plate, which is attached to the filter, is rotated, the polarized light will change "phase/angle."

Some cameras, especially those SLR/DSLR bodies, have a beam-splitter to split the incoming light to the viewfinder, AF system and metering. Each of these components requires some minimal amount of light to work properly. For example, the AF system usually requires an aperture of F5.6 or larger. Thus, this splitting of light should follow a constant ratio, say 80% to viewfinder, 10% to light meter, and 10% to the AF system (just an example).

If the incoming light is NOT polarized, the phase/angle of the incoming light may be in all directions and evenly distributed to each of the three components. If the incoming light is polarized, depending on the way the incoming light is polarized, the phase/angle of the polarized light may be biased. In other word, since some portion of the incoming light is missing due to polarization, the light diverted to the three components may not be constant. For example, 70% to viewfinder, 5% to light meter, and 8% to the AF system. If the light is polarized significantly, the portion of the incoming polarized light that can reach the AF system may be too low to allow the AF system work properly. Or, if the light that reaches the light meter is lower than the expect level, the meter will "think" the scene illumination is insufficient and force the camera to use a larger aperture and/or a slower shutter speed. As a result, you might get over- or under- exposed images.

To overcome this problem, a second plate is added to a polarizer to "repolarize" the polarized light. The polarizers that have one plate are the "linear" ones, and the polarizers that have two plates are "circular" ones.

Therefore, if your camera does not have a beam splitter, you can use linear polarizers. Virtually all consumer level digicams do not beam splitter, and all SLR/DSLR bodies have beam splitters.

100 Best of National Geographics ...4

2006-09-25T19:26:00.000-07:00

100 Best of National Geographics ...3

2006-09-25T19:25:00.000-07:00

100 Best of National Geographics ...2

2006-09-25T19:22:00.000-07:00

100 Best of National Geographics ...1

2006-09-25T19:20:00.000-07:00

2006-08-29T20:09:00.000-07:00

Takuya Kimura 's D80 new cm

Lens Testing -by Robert Monaghan

2006-08-29T02:30:00.000-07:00

(extracted from http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/lenstest.html)

Quick and Dirty Lens Test

You are in a camera shop or a flea market, how can you test a lens? First, look at it - really look. Shine a light through the lens and look for fogging (from volatile lubricants in hot weather). Is there fungus growth on the lens elements? Look at the screws holding the lens together. Are there any signs of scratches on them, suggesting amateur repair efforts?

Exercise the aperture stop-down ring by moving it from slowest to fastest apertures and back. Is the action quick? Are the springs tight and strong? Or does the lens stop down slooowly? Look at the aperture blades, especially for oil or other signs of friction wear or damage. Now exercise the zoom function (is there is one) and focus the lens slowly twisting the barrel from side to side at each setting. You are looking for jumps or binding in the focusing mechanics which could indicate internal damage, wear, or poor repairs.

Another easy tell-tale is the front of the lens. Is the filter ring dinged? If so, the lens probably has a history of hard impacts, which could easily dislodge and decenter lens elements, reducing lens performance. Scratches on the lens tell a similar tale. Look at the rear lens element in particular. Our lens faults pages give you a hierarchy of lens problems.

Probably 90% of the lenses out there are okay (maybe 70% on EBAY, versus say 30% of the bodies!). Without using film for a test, you can't be really sure how well it will perform, or if there is not some subtle problem with it. But the above tests will identify most of the bad and abused lenses out there, and greatly improve your odds of getting a good one!

Distortion

You can't tell the distortion of a lens by looking through the viewfinder. Most camera viewfinders are not optically designed to minimize distortion, and are much more distorted than any lens you are likely to use. So you have to use film for this test.

Find a subject with known straight lines, preferably vertical or horizontal or both. I usually pick houses with aluminum sidings that are lighted so it is easy to see the lines. Other folks use venetian blinds in windows. Another favorite source for testing distortion are those downtown skyscrapers with lots of windows and lines in their facade. Be very careful in leveling your tripod, using a bubble level if available to keep it level.

Don't make the mistake of projecting your slides and trying to measure distortion on the big screen with a ruler. Sorry, but the enlarger lens and tilted projection setup will again be more distorted than the lens you are trying to test.

Instead, look at the slide or negative under a high powered loupe. You need a true, thin straight-edge to evaluate distortion. The easiest one is a clean and unused safety razor blade or something similar. Carefully line up the straight-edge with the lines in the slide. Usually the worst distortion will be at the outermost lines. Now check and see if you have either barrel (bulging out) or pincushion (bulging in) distortion present. You can use this technique to compare two lenses for distortion in a general way.

In theory, you can use a straight-edge metal ruler with tiny distance markings on it to estimate how large the bulge is over a measured distance. The ratio of the amount of distortion could be expressed as some percentage. In practice, most fixed lenses have distortion below 1%, which is hard to see even with a straight-edge, let alone measure accurately. Even zoom lenses average around 1.5% or less distortion, but a few low cost ones might be as high as 3% or so (readily visible even on enlargements).

I should also add that for zoom lenses in particular, the amount of distortion can vary a great deal depending on the focal length setting. Some zooms even go from moderate pincushion distortion to modest barrel distortion as you zoom the lens through its settings (i.e., a compromise).

Stopping Down Shots

A number of lens aberrations are reduced or improved by stopping down the lens to a smaller aperture. Vignetting of the edges of the image is reduced or eliminated. Coma, astigmatism, and flare are also improved by stopping down. So for most lenses, you need to have a series of shots at several distances (infinity, portrait distance, close focus) to document these improvements.

Some lenses (e.g., wide angle zooms) may vignette if used wide open. This problem will show up best at the widest angle setting on the zoom with the lens open to its maximum aperture. You will see some darkening or light falloff in the corners. Stopping down will generally improve the image until the vignetting is eliminated, usually one or two stops down.

Another common cause of vignetting is using a thick filter on an ultrawide angle zoom. For example, I have a 17-28mm zoom which vignettes at the 17 to 18mm settings when I put on a 72mm red filter (for sunsets). The filter is too thick, and cuts into the photo, producing curved edges on the film. Special thinner filters are made to prevent such image vignetting with wide angle lenses. This issue is yet another reason to test your lens without a protective filter in place, and then again with the protective filter (if you use one). You will know if the problems with vignetting are in the lens, or the use of the too-thick filter.

To avoid these problems, you would have to test the lens at the widest focal length settings. You might also run a series of tests at different f/stops to pick the sharpest settings or "sweet spots" of your lens. These "sweet spots" will be where the lens will work best in terms of resolution and overall performance. A few pro lenses such as fast telephotos may be optimized for wide open performance. Here again, you would want to know this when using the lens!

Lens Coloration

You don't really need any film to check the lens for a color tinge. Many older lenses tend to have yellowish tinges from the aging of older formula lens adhesives. Other lenses were made with a deliberate cool ("blue") or warm ("red") coloration, sometimes closely matched with other lenses in the line. By simply holding up the lens to a white sheet of paper at an angle (circa 45 degrees) you should be able to see any lens color effects. On a rangefinder where the lens won't come off, you may have to open the back and adjust things so you can look through the lens (if possible).

The lens coatings may be colored magenta or blue or other colors to the eye, but they don't impact the lens color in the above test. We don't use film for this test, as films have color prejudices of their own. Be sure that the light source looks bright white, as from a daylight fluorescent or white light bulb or mid-day sunlight source. The paper should appear bright white for best results.

Flare Tests

Flare comes in two flavors, veiling glare and visible flare. Veiling glare is the loss of contrast seen in darker shadows from light bouncing around off the lens elements and film. To evaluate veiling glare, you want a thin dark subject against a bright white background. The easiest real world subjects I have found are thin tree branches against the sky in winter. In summer, the leaves get in the way, so I may opt to use a powerline against a bright cloudy sky. Ideally, the branches or wires should be dark black and transition abruptly to the white sky. The less solid black the branches or wires look, the more you are seeing the effects of flare. If you have a downloaded lens test chart, you can also do this test easily with the black and white lines on the chart.

To evaluate visible flare, you can take a photo of a bright point light source such as the sun. You may see a hexagonal or other pattern from reflections off the surface of the lens diaphragm blades. You may also see bright blobs or streaks of light reflected from lens elements. Try a shot without your UV filter, if you use one, to see why some of us don't use UV filters (they add to flare). Some lenses such as my 20mm f/3.5 AI nikkor have surprisingly little flare, even in direct sun in the photos shots. Zoom lenses tend to have much higher flare than other lenses due partly to the larger number of elements having more reflective surfaces. Again, this is one major reason many of us prefer fixed or non-zoom lenses.

The question of subject distance when testing a lens is important. Photographic lenses are normally optimized for middle distances, say, six to ten metres, the range in which they may mostly be used. The wider the aperture, the narrower the optimal range, a factor important from f/1.4. Source: Lens Test Charts by Geoffrey Crawley in British Journal of Photography, January 31, 2001, p. 26.

Normal Lens Test Surprises

I started out shooting Nikons because I was doing underwater photography, and Canon had yet to come out with their F1 model with interchangeable finders. So my pro camera choice is the result of Nikon having the only interchangeable action viewfinder for underwater housing use for their Nikon F camera. Naturally, I believed the hype of Nikon ads and other Nikon users about Nikon's great superiority to every other camera brand. As I needed cameras, I accumulated a bunch of cameras from Shutterbug ads, simply because I had to buy the camera to get the camera housings. Every camera housing was another potential student for each class, so they were also tax deductible!

Then I made the mistake of trying to show how my pricey Nikon kit was superior to my cheapy Minolta SRT101 setup. Bad mistake. I shot each camera with the same slide film, side by side on the same scene and identical lighting (one shot and different cameras and lenses right after the other), on the same tripod, with the same lab doing the processing. I could see some minor differences, but that Minolta lens was surprisingly good. I picked up a $17 used normal lens for my Spotmatic. Surely my Nikkor would blow it away. Ooops! These normal lenses were all so good that you could hardly tell the slides shot side by side apart. Maybe it was just me? So I asked some friends and students to try and tell them apart. They were equally surprised by how good the other lenses were.

Some years later, I found myself on a tight graduate student budget, and unable to afford most of the exotic OEM (nikkor) lenses I wanted. So I decided to settle for some third party lenses. I "knew" they'd be awful, based on what everybody had told me. Unfortunately, I decided to see just how terrible they really were. To my surprise, these lenses did pretty well, often as well as my nikkors at mid-range (diffraction limited) f/stops.

I reached the nadir of lens prejudice when I decided to find a "bad" lens to destroy it in some tests to see how bad scratches and even cracked glass would impair lens performance. But first I needed to test the lenses to see how bad they were before I scratched and bashed them up, right?

Yes, testing these $10 to $15 US lenses was another bad mistake. I bought a 28mm f/2.8 AI lens made by Osawa. Surely this junker would be awful. Well, it was - awful good that is. It turned out the dang lens was very nearly as good as my much more costly Nikkor 28mm. Hmmm?

Thro' a glass

2006-08-25T19:59:00.000-07:00

Taken by a French photographer, Bernard Sanch.

Reflection is beautiful!

2006-08-25T19:51:00.000-07:00

One more Spensor Tunick

2006-08-25T18:57:00.000-07:00

Spencer Tunick's Naked Bodies

2006-08-06T22:50:00.000-07:00

Brugge 4, 2005

http://www.i-20.com/artist.php?artist_id=19&page=images
http://www.spencertunick.com/

IR photography using a digital camera

2006-08-04T02:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewtechnique.cfm?recid=196
http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewtechnique.cfm?recid=214

what a beautiful news pic!

2006-08-03T23:41:00.000-07:00

Nacreous clouds over Antarctica

http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=23042

DIY Pinhole camera

2006-07-31T20:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html

lens test - 50mm vs 50mm

2006-07-31T08:27:00.000-07:00

http://www.pbase.com/miljenko/50mm_vs_50mm

Hong Kong Sports Photography Association

2006-07-11T20:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.hksp.org/Home.php?L=E

mid-tele & wide zoom

2006-07-06T22:25:00.000-07:00

Mid-tele
N: AF-S VR 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED 黑 (11k)
N: AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6G (750)
N: AF 70-300mm F/4-F/5.6 D ED (2.1k)
N: AF 80-200mm f/2.8D ED (6.4k)
S: AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 APO Macro SUPER II (1.2k)
Ta: AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 LD Marco 1:2 (1.2k)

Wide zoom
N: AF-S DX 12-24mm f/4G IF-ED (6.5k)
S: Sigma AF 10-20mm (3.2k)
To: AF 12-24 DX (3.5k)

d70s-->d200

2006-07-01T23:39:00.000-07:00

am thinking to upgrade my d70s to the very wanted d200 & found some comparison on web... to my surprise, it doesnt look like d200 is very much more than d70s.

http://www.pcmag.com/compare_products/0,1943,,00.asp?a=173059,135274,153535,136040,30875,158039,158127,163869&pt=10&sid=1563

http://www.bythom.com/d200review.htm

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d200-vs-nikon.htm

REVISED:

D200 Benefits
+ Superior ergonomics: the D200 has single-purpose buttons for the Three Kings (QUAL, WB, ISO) while the D70s combines them with playback function buttons. The D200 even adds a user programmable function button!

+ YRGB Histograms! Single histograms are useless because they can't show when just one channel clips, at which point your image is crap. The YRGB histogram of the D200 for the first time, in addition to the D2X, allows you to look at the histogram to check overexposure. I need to write an article explaining this. For now just check all four histograms and ensure that none of them clips the highlights. You can see highlights clipping on a histogram when it bunches up on the right side of the graph. These useful histograms are one of the big reasons I'm getting a D200 to replace my D70.

+ Four banks of setting memories for fast swapping between groups of camera settings.

+ Superior durability. The D200 is metal and gasketed against the weather, while the D70s is plastic.

+ Almost twice as fast (5 vs. 3 FPS).

+ More AF zones.

+ Built-in flash can address and control multiple groups of remote wireless flashes; D70/D70s only controls one remote flash channel.

+ Most likely faster at everything.

+ More flexible White Balance, critical to great images.

+ Huge viewfinder, adds ISO indication.

+ The D200 works well with manual focus lenses, the D70 doesn't.

+ The MH-18a charger is a little bit smaller than the slightly older MH-18 charger of the D70.

+ No useless "Scene Modes" (Portrait, Night Scene, Flower, etc.) cluttering the control panels.

from http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d200-vs-nikon.htm

Flash

2006-06-28T01:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.trainingtools.com/online/flash5/

École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie

2006-06-20T02:51:00.000-07:00

Les concours d' entree pour École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie:

2006: Vingt quatre heures de la vie… / Travail portant sur un thème clairement spécifié parle candidat et librement choisi par lui
2005: Manières de table / L'écho 2004: La voiture/L'ombre
2003: La journee / Le faux-semblant
2002: La foule/Accompagnez vos images par un commentaire écrit
2001: Formes de L'ennui dans la ville/ L'evidence

(Travail photographique à caractère documentaire /Sujet libre)

... beaux-arts ...tres tres tres difficile!

http://www.enp-arles.com/

Getting close with kids

2006-06-19T02:21:00.000-07:00

A friend showed me his latest album, an impressive album of kids. I wondered why my friends could take a lot of pics of them and surprisingly, in none of the photos, they showed an uneasy face. Alors, he said, "I got myself a funny nickname (which remains secret to all others, but trust me, that's hilarious), and they called me xxxx... that break the ice".

School or experience?!

2006-06-15T02:23:00.000-07:00

問得好,答得妙. 連我梗有的小小衝動都差點撲息!
http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=008zXS

1. 魚眼の到達

2006-05-15T08:15:00.000-07:00

丹妮恨左好耐,等到頸都長的魚眼鏡終於到達dan home了!!! 太好喇! :D

魚眼の製做商Penleng廠係以生產軍事科技野為主的,勁野泥!而魚眼の物料又同wideangle lens的不同,所以可以capture到近180度以內的景物. Penleng的fisheye lens一向都是以"平"來取勝,致於quality...東歐(Belarus)出產的,都不要寄以厚望了.不過以這個價錢來說,已經算係唔話得... 不過,聽講Penleng廠已經停產fisheye lens了! 這是Peleng的website:
http://www.peleng.by/

2. 魚眼の打開

2006-05-15T08:07:00.000-07:00

懷著萬分期待的心情,打開魚眼の包裝!

之前0係web都有看過,包裝係好渣的,得幾塊薄薄的發泡膠紙,令人懷疑會唔會0係運送過程入面已經撞爛左!

3. 魚眼のR爆頭

2006-05-15T08:06:00.000-07:00

包裹入面,有一本印刷簡陋的booklet,入面寫滿了俄文(其實我都唔sure係唔係俄文),仲有人用俄文手寫左d野,完全都唔知講d乜!!

0係web度,有好多人都分享了他買入this penleng 8mm fisheye的experience,其中一個是以下的德國guy好詳細咁講佢的經歷:

http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/stuff/peleng_fisheye/peleng_fisheye.html

4. 魚眼の解脫

2006-05-15T08:03:00.000-07:00

入面,有個類似leather的bag...

5. 魚眼の真身

2006-05-15T08:02:00.000-07:00

個袋入面裝住左:

Penleng魚眼鏡
gelatine filter3塊 - orange, green & skylight filter - 之後發覺套唔上去的,奇怪!不過我都勁小用的, hehe
一條長肩帶(皮袋用的) - 好奇怪,都冇位比佢扣上去的
底蓋及頂蓋 - 正常
一個m42/nikon接環 - m42那邊係ok的,不過接nikon果邊又係唔work的! 呢個接環係冇鏡片的,丹妮記得當時0係莫斯科買接環果時,個老闆提醒過我,話nikon的接環係有鏡的,冇果d係arc人的,唔好買,仲叫我去大行成成度買... 唔通... anyway,我會找個nikon film camera的朋友,試下係咪係用來接落film camera的...

試影左幾張, 好爽0約! :D 好,等天氣好d就找呀福來開齋!

PS 有d人影完fishy photo之後又走去de-fish佢,效果係咁的:http://www.jarnell.com/reviews/peleng/defish.htm

"Forever"

2006-03-23T08:00:00.000-08:00

Epson Photo Garden 第5回入選作品(スナップ編)

- forever 永遠 (Photographer マイケルD )

それは振り返って気付くこと。
撮り散らかした写真のなかから、
ふとそれをみつけたときのよろこび。

瞬間が永遠になるとき、
ほんとうはみんなそこにいる。

そこで輝いている。
(我唔知講乜的)

Shooting in a Snow Mountain

2006-03-08T19:19:00.000-08:00

丹妮一向很欣賞的2位業餘攝影大師Z與Alex Lau終於遇上了,他們在澳洲相遇. 兩個本來不認識的人,透過相片認識對方,好不romantic!

Around 八月,他們打算上澳洲雪山camping加影相,那時將會幾凍,好可能低於0度. 我笑他們上去Brokeback,Z就問我有冇興趣 join佢地,那樣就不brokeback了,哈哈,丹妮係唔會阻人brokeback的... 其實係要阻都阻唔到. 講番正題,緊係有興趣啦,可惜近來工作不太順利,要再加把勁... 睇來,來緊幾天晚上都會"展"轉反側,唔使訓!! 是次,還會有另一位(未認識真人的)"靚仔"攝影大師馬丁,他是Z認為one of the most talented的影友,如果有機會同3位大師一同影相,是丹妮的榮幸啊!

近數年,愛上了露營,也有一班固定的camp friends,每一年我們都會盡量抽時間去兩次. 聽完隔離網球場的發叔教路後,最近一次,我們學習搞嘆世界露營團. 記得幾年前,平叔謝飛提議不如一同出國到華山露營,想必很不同,可惜一直都未實行,所以,這次丹妮更想可以與幾位影友一同上雪山啊!

十個狗年的願望

2006-02-02T19:21:00.000-08:00

影相影得靚d
影相影得靚d
影相影得靚d
影相影得靚d
影相影得靚d
工作做得醒d
賺錢賺得多d
睇書睇得快d
個人又要索d
身體又健康d:)

最有氣派的外影

2006-01-02T19:10:00.000-08:00

1 Jan 2006 是小妹一生人的大日子啊! :D

繼自從上次同Contax機皇去外影WTO之後, 0係2006年的第一天, D70s好幸運地同2位現今Canon 頂級DSLR 1D2一同外出到香港威尼斯"大澳", 同行還有皇子5D(因機主很傻,忘記了bring電池,5D就只好一直留0係個袋入面遊車河 :DDDD), 同小公主350D; 連黑白雙剎都有出動, 哈哈, 數真d係2位小白同一位小黑, 最state-of-the-art的統統出場啊。小妹都完全想像不到,另一次有這個場面會是幾多十年之後的事了, 恐怕可能要是另一個9星連珠的時候啊! 0_0。

今次與大師一同外影見識了很多很多:
1. 攝影的事沒有對與錯
2. 平時很nice的影友, 一講到影相, 就精神分裂起來, 變得很難相處, 不是迫人同意佢地既睇法, 就是迫人睇佢地d相
3. 攝影, 每個影友都有不同的philosophy; Equipment freak同Photographer 的分別在於, Equipment freak是base on "facts", photographer 要的是"sense"; facts從很多資訊途徑都obtain到, sense是要從很多方面慢慢吸收並且build up出來 >_<
4. 很多影友take care套"架生"小心得不可能再小心, 但原來accidents証明現今camera equipment的construction已經做得很好. 有一次, 某人的小白從1米多的高度直插石屎地, canon廠check過都100%冇事; 另一次一個200磅的影友不小心摔低, 以小白先落地, 支鏡都一樣安好.
5. 影人像的時候, 連拍2至3下, 會容易d capture到個表情 ^_<
6. 用bb的小襪子可以把不同的鏡或小物件分門別類, 相機袋入面整齊很多, 而且可以用不同color的襪子增添色彩, 影起相來都開心d ^_^
7. 多數的影友都有同一毛病, 就是膊頭痛; 因為每次都會盡量帶多些用品外出, 於是影了一天的相就不未會有些後遺症了! x_x
8. 當攝影友的另一半真不易, 很多時要陪伴左右, 又悶, 更時常都要充當model, 有時不幸於某些情況下被途人誤會是傻的, 很偉大啊!
9. 有些影友會把身邊的朋友這樣分類的: "影友"同"正常" friends, 好像意味著"影友=不正常"

PS dinner時撞到海豚王子, 原來他認識我的大學同學L; 跟著又突然發覺認識了數年的豹豹也是我另一位大學同學P的朋友, what a small world呢!

The Talmud

2005-12-08T07:57:00.000-08:00

"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are"
-The Talmud

from Michael Busselle Photographer

Composition

2005-12-01T19:06:00.000-08:00

The Human eye is seldom, if ever, at rest while the observer is looking at anything. It darts rapidly from one point of intrest to another, focusing at different planes if a three-demensional object is being viewed. And usually the observer is unaware that this is happening.

Artists, including photographers, have always been cognizant of this rapid eye motion. Deliberately, even subliminally, they direct the eye to focus on the subject they wish to emphasize.

One basic fact must be remembered: The human eye sees selectively, or subjectively: the camera sees objectively. The camera records three dimensions as two-- height and width: depth can only be implied. Still cameras take still photographs; motion is lacking, although it can be suggested. The emphasis must be supplied; the viewer must be forced to see what the photographer wants him to see.

The emphasis is achieved through subject placement , lighting, shading, framing, simplifying, perspective, scale, motion direction, repetition, balance, form, selective focus.
by Tom Hicks on fredmiranda, Nov 05