Themed based cafes are far and few in Singapore. Yet there is one that is related to photography, Room with A View. This cafe is located at 17 Carpenter Street on the level 5. To get to the cafe , you’ll have to take the lift up. There is a little surprise here in how [...]
It has been a while since I buy a camera bag. The triangular shape SLR bag or holster like bag that I got when i first purchased by first SLR has been breaking abreak after 8 years. So I decided to get another to replace it. I finally decided on the Thinkphoto Digital Holster 20 [...]
Well, again on strobist or off camera lighting stuff. We will also need lightstands that will hold our lights while we shoot. Some of the things to consider when looking for a lightstand are : Weight – We usually need more than one lightstand so the lighter it is the more we can carry. The [...]
Well, strobist or off camera lighting is not a new concept. It means to take the camera from the camera hotshoe and place it in a different position. Sometimes it means using more than one source of light. Digital cameras has made it easier for us to gauge our exposure immediately after taking a shot. [...]
I do selective Pro Bono photography jobs. One of them is the Qingming Festival praying event organised by the Zhoujiaquan lion dance troupes. Most of these troupes operated on a non commerical basis. Their main source of income is to go around performing “picking the greens” during Chinese New Year periods. Since I am always interested in [...]
I have been conducting basic photography training for the one year and this is one of the common questions that I get- Which DSLR should I buy? This is the kind of question where you will get 10 different answers if you ask 10 different persons. Initially I was reluctant to recommend any specific brand [...]
I am always on the lookout for graphic editing software that is not too heavy on the pocket ($). Paintshop has been around for a long time and now it is worth to take a second look at it. Here are a few of the key features that I found it to be useful for [...]
It used to be very expensive buying a photo from a traditional stock agency before the days of the Internet. Sock agencies had to publish thick catalogs showing the photographs in their library. The fees to license the use of a stock photo is not cheap too. With the internet and subsequently microstock websites, all [...]