Wei Chuan

2010-03-07T09:46:00.014+08:00

With all the hot weather and the sudden downpours, I am sick.
Shots taken below are from the past week using Kodak Tri-X and Agfa precisa in Singapore.
Shot using the M6/Nikkor 5cm and R3A/Nokton 40mm.. I had processed the black and white images wrongly due to poor memory as I have two different developer in the tanks.. and I forgot which is which hence the difference in agitation time. Morever, I shot some color film by mistake using a orange filter which I forgot to remove.

So here are the pictures!

Reading at KAP.. waiting for 2pm to collect my M6. This happened last week.

Be yourself.... only better.

Surprisingly, he didn't face ahead.

Images from Chinese New Year eve where Phupin, Yani, Chee yong and I met for a lazy afternoon. We ended up in West coast park planning events for our birthdays for this year and next year and also Chee Yong chalet for next march.. Sigh, the things we do..

Leap!

My mother had done this. I blame myself for the whole.

Low fat

No dinner

The day after the examinations! Valentine's day tickets. Too many stars in the show makes it boring.

Look at the liquid chocolate!

Another one from the darkroom. Here's the film fixer. I always forgot to pour the chemical back into the jug. Luckily I am always alone in the dark room.

For sale..

I admit I had a thing for the lower limit of human and landscapes

Figure..

I <3 NY

An old and friendly guy at the Soup Spoon having his lunch at 3pm. Waiting for him to seat down before taking this frame.

Help me with this. "No I have to tie my tail, stop!"

Siesta

I wished I had a better eye for straighter lines.

Green light green light cmon singapore weather!
He was fidgeting and swearing to himself in his native language.

Siesta (II)

Maps and Legends

Commercial

I like poster reflecting irony or humour with people, but I certainly must refrain from taking back shots.

and blur shots.

Ledina! My colleague at work. She was employed in the same period which I had been- 16th December 2008. She's the only one left. I had left my job precisely about today.

Taking the bus back home

3 days back, a starbucks morning.

had a visit to my new home. Sigh

Walk the plank!

Please do not finish it.
I would certainly enjoy more time in clementi..

A visit to a temple with my dad. This dog is scary, I bend down to get a closer shot and he lunged at me and barked. The owner called out to his name and he squeaked.. Hahaha

A companion for previous dog. This guy had a broken limb but I guess his owner could not bear to put him to sleep..

I should stop doing this

Mother

Bought the novel! Had been looking for it since 2008. I had been too lazy to find it.

What i bring out when I go and shoot :)

The Nikkor glow on the glass.

Another Nikkor glow. None edited.

Chee Yong with the distracting bokeh in the back.

Mother Starship

XD

Shot with my Agfa precisa and a Orange filter, by accident. I should keep a check on the filter always, and the ISO reading, and the battery. Grr.

Two happy tourist

"Where do we go from here?"

Aha!

"Should I get one.."

These are all the bokeh swirly shots taken wide open. It was intended but I had used it in a wrong manner, I paid too much attention on the bokeh. I have so much to learn! :)
Thanks for looking, have a nice day!

Cheers

Holga

2010-03-05T08:55:00.003+08:00

http://www.ndroo.com/blog/?p=266

Some interesting Holgas custom made by lomography enthusiast out there. It's going to be a collector materials in the years to come. These cameras makes you look at it more than once. Which is enough to persuade you to purchase it.

2010-03-04T23:36:00.001+08:00

Found an alternative by using the Film Scanner at Safra. It would be processing and scanning at safra instead of the current method where I spend $3.5 to scan a roll.. Save cost. The only loss is spending 4 hours scanning 4 rolls in the cold dark room.

2010-03-02T02:15:00.012+08:00

To start the post off, Happy Belated Chinese New Year! I wished I had the opportunity to express these glad tidings earlier but I had to put off my picture processing and internet surfing for the past month.

All of these are images taken during November to December under the cold and hard period of assignments, projects and examinations.

I have recently purchased a Leica M6 with a Nikkor 5cm f/1.4 S.C. I am going to process pictures taken by it for this week. Can't wait.

An old lady walking slowly, taking the time of her world. She didn't get a domestic helper. Towards some point of your life you would had embrace solitude in a different manner from before. Experience kicks in and sets your mind in ease.

The beginning of a supposedly "fruitful" day. A break from all the studying, I had taken the opportunity to see some Leica lenses and bodies at Peninsula. First frame when I left my block.

Heading towards ChiffCameras to view some Voigtlander equipments. Excelsior Hotel has the biggest mirrors. I won't be spared.

Well I thought the light would be good. The 40mm had given me issues with framing at times. Taken a 1/4th at F1.4 if I recalled clearly.

After a long visual feast, I left for esplanade towards Holland V where I was suppose to prepare for a presentation project.
A photographer checking out his shot of the open field and CBD high risers.

Scorching weather, two guys waiting for a hint of the wind.

Proceed to Bras Brasah unintentionally to check out some books as well. I always visit this store when I am there. It's convenient, it's cheap and it's easier to browse in this manner rather on the shelf.

Bingo! No seats in the Air-Conditional area in Starbucks. Out in the sun then.

A curious toddler.

A cup of Chai Tea Latte.
Never fails to rejuvenate even the weariest days.
Though I recalled I looked at lens for three hours and did not complete my project then.

Met up with Phupin and Chee Yong for dinner at Holland V's Burger King. It's a lovely lovely place, good for photography and socializing. People come and go often but the traffic isn't as huge as at Starbuck's.

Having the usual chat. Nonsense, music, bicycles, childish chides. Hahaha

Camera shy

You wish.
Everybody had a thing for pictures, even this guy here.

I sort of see this 3 x 3 x 3 thing.
Three of us.
Three posters at the back.
Three hungry customers on the right.
And maybe three tables and chairs in front of us. I couldn't move back to get a clearer frame.

Father and son. Puzzling.

A break from a long day of work. Taken outside 7-11

Last frame on the roll. A third of it was gone. Supermarket shots are fun- Without security personnels.

Another day, heading to meet my friends for lunch. A pity i do not own any Natural Density filters and I had the Tri-X in my camera. Would be so much nicer with a color film @ 1.4 on a sunny sunny day.

Capitalism victim

Daiso in the evening with Yanzi. Spent a hell of a time there finding the correct gift box with him.

Walking back.. Some bokeh shots. Not really at it's best.

I am sorry for this excuse. But the 40mm really gives you issue on framing at times.

Back at Plaza Singapura where some kids are testing out Flickr on the Shop's Computer. Children these days are seeing too much of the world at a rapid speed.

Evening at holland V's Coffee Bean.
A couple overlooking the people passing through.
Lovely.

The night is still young- For newspapers.

Dying for a shutter click at home, so..

Another day with the gang at West Coast Plaza. Checking out some phones.
Teenagers always do that. We would die if we didn't see the specifications and the price.

Transit news.

Now you know Phupin has bad hygiene habits ;)

His nose!

It isn't my fault I am a narcissist, if I would to go out I won't study. Hence the above.

And.. in the lift, okay, overdoing it.

My mom joining in the fun.. She was doing weird poses but and I had to be fast ;)

Definitely something to show her in the latter years.
<3

"No more funny actions, I'd just smile!"

Mid-January.
A walk around my neighbourhood. They had this fire eating thing, part of a performance for the lifts implementation programme. Clementi usually do not have this kind of activities. The audience grasped loudly.

Met some of my secondary school friends.

Fire burning on the dance floor!

A gentleman overlooking Tai Ji practise. I would join if I were him. Time is.. precious.

One of the employees in Sunset's 711. Been there for more than 11 years since I moved. Now she's still there but I am moving out. Gotta have a frame.

"No browsing"
Rebel.

Pizza?
Previous workplace.

In school, during my Business Communication lessons.
As usual, no one's paying attention.

Now we are having Business Statistics. My tutor proudly take his Canon EOS and put beside his laptop in his classes. We are really excited to exchange words on digital and analogue photography.
His classes are lively and interesting. Statistics doesn't sound so dull. I was hoping for an A++

I told you everybody loves to get photographed.

Back to Business Communication classes! Leon posing with Captain Andrew..

Simin with her \/ sign. Now it's \m/
Ugh! Haha

Classes in progress
Manga digesting..

A very late frame during my New year period. More to come!
Dad

My mom da king.
Her legs are greater than the Ice Age's Sabretooth.

2010-02-25T20:26:00.002+08:00

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/leica_m6.shtml

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhat/sets/72157604147313392/

http://www.vividlight.com/articles/1212.htm

Some bookmarks saved at a lan shop.

Portra in february

2010-02-11T09:08:00.003+08:00

Redo

2010-01-28T08:52:00.000+08:00

My old blog had been exported to www.Jimmim.blogspot.com

Here is one done for my photography archives, interesting articles and some of my hobby product.

Enjoy.

2010-01-28T08:43:00.000+08:00

I am allured by the purple/reddish rendition of the Fuji Superia film. Tried editing with an old picture taken somewhere in July last year.

Going to get 10 Fuji Superia 200 very very soon and shoot it wide open! :)

Going back..

2010-01-22T18:11:00.000+08:00

Film is a lot younger than newspapers.
Newspapers were supposed to go away when radio was invented.
Black-and-white film was supposed to go away when color was invented.
Radio, and movies, were supposed to go away when TV was invented.
Cable TV, Blockbuster and Netflix were supposed to go away back when the Internet got popular in the late 1990s.
When we lose the others, maybe I’ll start worrying about film going away.
New media may replace some parts of older media, but never replaces all of it. The older media always sticks around doing what it did best.

Ken Rockwell

Before 2011

2010-01-21T14:06:00.000+08:00

Picture courtesy of 27147 on Flickr.

Getting this lens with the ND4 filter and a Red filter to go with it. I think I am choosing this over the 'Cron 50mm because of the aperture cutting and over the Summilux because of the price constraint. I am very please with the dreamy bokeh that this lens can produce!

Total cost - $1,400

An artisan&artist strap for my current R3A. Definitely not a need but will get to withstand the weight of the Nokton 50mm.

Price - $90

Hopefully I will get those before 2011. Next year it will be a Leica M6.