What shall I do here now, since I'm a dinosaur here?

One way of looking at the role of a photographer as a creator is that from the role of a musician. A musician, naturally, performs music. Likewise, a photographer produces images ( Read more... )

hopefully this ping thing works this time. damn. haha.

why isn't my facebook getting pinged?

is behind time. now trying to ping.

 All these hype and data that researches produce have a tendency to push the new "eco" commodity into the new business. I have no idea how long the earth will sustain, but I think earth will far outlast any civilisation present. Hey humans, don't worry about earth, worry about yourselves!

 Someone called me for my daily rates a few days ago, and I promptly quoted my normal figure that has been unchanged for the past 6 years. This person promptly asked me for my half-day rates, and I promptly halved it, (that’s a big mistake, costs of business never work out proportionally). Then the caller finally asked me if I could charge half-day ( Read more... )

I've been spending so much time in front of the computer adjusting and toning images I can't help but say that photoshopping images is like smoking opium. It's not exactly good for the smoker (likewise, its not exactly good for the photographer) but it kills pain and provides the user with relief (likewise, it saves or improves the images), and ( Read more... )

A decade ago in school I was given the chance to use commercial digital photography equipment and was taught the new edge in photography. It was quick, it was instant, but it was cumbersome, at that point of time it was only good in the studio--it has to be tethered to a computer.

It was new tools and new ways of doing something old and I felt like ( Read more... )

 I’ve been going lots and lots of magazines recently looking through the color images and the monochromatic ones. Strangely enough the images may be very well styled, very well composed and very well post-processed, something is still amiss. As I went on it struck me that the post-process (ie photoshop) is the culprit. Many photographers today ( Read more... )