A big smile can delight your day....

ISO: 250

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/100sec

Focal Length: 135mm

Take A Break, it can help you to go further...

ISO: 400

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/640sec

Focal Length: 135mm

No matter which religion you have, it helps to release your soul...

ISO: 800

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/60sec

Focal Length: 135mm

Open your heart to accept everything sincerely....

ISO: 400

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/30sec

Focal Length: 135mm

The Simplest always is the Beauties...

ISO: 400

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/2000sec

Focal Length: 135mm

Different angle of view gives a different kind of the feel. No matter how tough of your life be, look from another way around and thing just be solved easily...

ISO: 100

FNumber: 18

Shutter Speed: 1/50sec

Focal Length: 26mm

Cherish for everything around your life, even know sometime you don't have the chance to capture it down...

ISO: 800

FNumber: 10

Shutter Speed: 1/30sec

Focal Length: 135mm

No matter how hard for the road that in front of us, keep moving forward is the only way to overcome everything...

ISO: 400

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/320sec

Focal Length: 58mm

Come on, let's the game on... Life can be fun...

ISO: 200

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/320sec

Focal Length: 125mm

Give a big kiss to your beloved to show your love...

ISO: 250

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/100sec

Focal Length: 135mm

Always focus on your target...

ISO: 500

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/250sec

Focal Length: 135mm

Morning is the greatest moment of a day...

ISO: 500

FNumber: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/800sec

Focal Length: 135mm

SO, How Hard Can It BE???

(I submitted these pictures as my photography workshop assignment. I went to Botanic Garden and St Andrew's Cathedral yesterday to have our out-shooting workshop with my classmates and lecturers, It was a great time and look forward for the next session.)

Last time I was talked about the monitor calibration. This time, let talk about the color saturation.

Most of the time, people will feel LCD is better than Plasma from many aspect, such as color, performance, clarity and so on. But do you know, the worst amount of color that can be reproduced by the monitor is LCD?? Does this answer surprise you?? But it is true, LCD is the worst monitor that can reproduced the amount of type of colors.

So, How they trick your eyes?? Before I go to a little bit detail, let the wikipedia show you what is Gamuts about:

Gamuts are commonly represented as areas as shown at above, with the curved edge representing the monochromatic colors. Gamut areas typically have triangular shapes because most color reproduction is done with three primaries.

A typical CRT gamut.
The grayed-out horseshoe shape is the entire range of possible chromaticties. The colored triangle is the gamut available to a typical computer monitor; it does not cover the entire space. The corners of the triangle are the primary colors for this gamut; in the case of a CRT, they depend on the colors of the phosphors of the monitor. At each point, the brightest possible RGB color of that chromaticity is displayed, resulting in the bright Mach band stripes corresponding to the edges of the RGB color cube.

Source from WIKIPEDIA

Here shows the gamuts for normal LCD monitor:
Source from Display Daily

Since the LCD monitor has the smallest gamuts among all of kinds of monitor. So how can they trick our eyes? The theory behind is just simple. Color Saturation can easily done the job nicely and without notice by most of the users.

Here I show an example to explain why.

(original of the picture)

(After enhancing the color saturation, the pink was became more pinkish... )

(This shows the low amount of color saturation. When the color saturation is 0, the picture will become black and white only.)

So, LCD monitor actually is much suitable to watch cartoons and animes then movies. Because of its saturated color can make the anime and cartoons looks much more nicer but for the nature color like movie, thing will easily get wrong.

For the future, when you looking at those LCD panels with a very 'nice' looking color, BEWARE. Maybe you will become the next victim? Actually, overall for LCD is still good. What I want to deliver through this post is, don't just simply been cheated by those electronic retailer. You can try to ask them to show the video test pattern to let you do the comparison between different LCD monitors if can, which is like this:


But I don't really think the retailer will show you this, or even don't dare to show.

This was the first time I went out for a group shooting with my classmates so far. Although it is not officially assigned by our lecturer but we were really enjoyed the shooting and gain more experiences on photography.

We were walking around the Raffles Place and looking for something interesting to shoot. This was also the first time I have the chance to spend my time at there to walk around and i got the chance to see those very British Style building such as The Fire Station, Raffles Hotel and others.


Syazwan with the Fire Station...

Syazwan was walking along the way...


Fire Engine? with the redirect road sign? Which way should go huh??



The Fire Station...

Capitol Building...

Somewhere of the city...

Raffles City... I know it doesn't look like KLCC although I was tried my best to make it look like...

Quite interesting for this building... the view of behind of the building... I just don't know what is this building...

Would you rather take the taxi or trishaw?

The Long Bar, located at the first floor of Raffles Hotel, if I didn't remember it wrongly...

The view of Clarke Quay... from the Fort Canning Park.

As you can see, this is Raffles Terrace... located in the Fort Canning Park.

Don't ask me who did this, the only thing I know about this is... It is also located in the area of Fort Canning Park.

Why I said we were quite enjoying the shooting session? Ok, after you see these pictures, I believe you will understand why I say so...





Basyir and Andrew were playing around at the Raffles Terrace there... Doing some funny stuffs...

SAY CHEESE.... (from left)Syazwan, Izwan, Andrew and Desmond...

Look at the Basyir's FACE....

Why Basyir was so serious in this picture???

Andrew, I know you are still normal guy, am I right??


Fireman Statue shows the effort of fireman for keeping our lives safe... but, why there have a fireman was holding a camera??? Shoot the fire???

I like the perspective of this photo...

I hope that we have another chance to have the out-shooting session with my funny classmates... haha... You can really enjoy it with them, seriously....

FNumber: 11

Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec

Focal Length: 52mm

Exposure Mode: Shutter Priority

3, 2, 1 ..... time's out... Win or lose only decided by this very critical second. So, fight until the end and sometime thing maybe will chance by the willpower of the player. We are the player of our lives so, just enjoy and fight until the end of your life. You wont feel regret on it no matter how is the result.

Nowadays, LCD, Plasma, CRT, Projector, more and more kinds of display is around the market. I am sure that everyone was dealing with different kinds of display before. BUT, different kind of display, or even different display from different company will have the different setting for the monitor. Brightness, Contrast, Color, Tint, Color temperature and even Backlight for laptop display. So how we know which setting is the proper setting to show the right colour from the monitor?

Well, 2 ways can determine this issue. First, simplest and easiest... our eyes but the problem will occur also. Different people has different judgment about the color. Something that you think it is in yellow but others may not to feel the same as you feel. So, to overcome this problem, calibration tool was came in to solve this problem.

But, thing is hardly to get perfect. Although the monitor calibration tool is based on the engineering concept to adjust the monitor setting to the best setting but machine is always not more than a machine. In the end of calibration, we still need our eyes to give a final touch to adjust the monitor to reach the so called ' best setting' for the monitor owner. Like our human eyes, the different tool also can give a very different adjustment, some will change your monitor setting become better but some will not.

I did my laptop monitor calibration few days ago because of my photography module. It is very important for us to do the editing in order to mix the color properly and take care of the color printing.

So, here I shows a sample about the before calibrating and after calibrating monitor performance:

Before calibrating....

After calibrating....

(I don't you can really notice any different from these pictures, but in fact the result of after the calibrating will slightly darker and not as yellowish than the before version. If you can't see any difference, it maybe caused by the web browser because of the color configuration maybe difference for different browser.)

Although the result of after calibrating cannot fully convince everyone, but it still very important for Visual engineer in order to get the right setting for the monitor, especially for photography to do the final color mixing before the printing process. It will make your photo go haywire if the monitor doesn't calibrate properly. Same go for the video industry.

ISO: 200 Aperture: f5.6 Focal Length: 135 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec

The key that means very important to me to bring me to any place that I want although it is doesn't belong to me... I hope the right person who will sit beside me and let me bring her to everywhere of the world will appear soon...

I went to Old Town again on yesterday morning. Quite a long time I never taste my favorite half-boiled eggs. Yea, that is it but unfortunately, this time it was abit undercooked but the standard was still there... and add a cup of milk tea... yummy....