Up Hill Tough

Up Hill Tough

A stretch of tarmac between the tall trees at the Hanging rocks.

Tandoor Stones

Tandoor Stones

This one was up at the Hanging rocks site. The "mountain" of rocks spurring up were more than these but were not able to be captured in one photo unless I had a wider lens.

The title was influenced by the way how it sounds rather than what it means.



A tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used in Transcaucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, in which food is cooked over a hot charcoal fire. Temperatures in a tandoor can approach 480°C (900°F), and it is common for tandoor ovens to remain lit for long periods of time to maintain the high cooking temperature. The tandoor design is something of a transitional form between a makeshift earth oven and the horizontal-plan masonry oven, and is used almost exclusively for live-fire, radiant heat cooking.

Tandoor is used for cooking certain types of Indian, Irani, and Pakistani food, such as tandoori chicken and bread varieties like tandoori roti and naan. (The word tandoori is the adjective form.) It is also known as a tonir in Armenian which is a widely used method of cooking barbecue and lavash bread. In Georgia it is called a tone and is used for bread and kebab.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Interlocking Rocks

Interlocking Rocks

We adventorously entered this cave to see what's in there. Well, Some large rocks that interlocked with each other and an end that leads to an exit at the other side. The thought of that small crack will tighly close up all the gaps between the rocks longers as we snapped out Canons off.

Over The Balcony

Over The Balcony

Melbourne's so foggy these few days. Plane cancelled, me not being able to see the streets below from the 29th floor. Well, I grab a picture when there was very little fog. I planned to take the sunset but i missed it. But a pleasant surprise was that The lights after sunset is nicer (dark dark blue sky). The fog that blankets the building give a nice warm orang halo around the city. Took a couple of exposure (longest of about 90sec) and then combined them with photoshop. Used old square masking technique. Photomatix fail me this time.

Log of Wood

Log of Wood

A fallen log of wood by the path side. I was interested by the hole developing in the centre of the log and the patterns and texture its creating out of it.

That Way Ahead

That Way Ahead

A path leading up to the summit of hanging rocks.

As Bendy As Tree

As Bendy As Tree

This was again taken during the hanging rocks trip last year (2007). I like the smooth tarmac of the trail there which meander among the trees. This shot has some saturation adjustment + dodging and burning.

Webby Dry

Webby Dry


A picture taken during a trip to the Hanging rocks last year. This one shows some flora with webs running across it. The reason for the square cropping is to attract the eye to the flora and not the other distracting background.

Mdm Binte

Mdm Binte

It was someone's genius to ask her to use the scarf as a very strong props. The addition of the cross necklace really gives some controversy to the picture. Most people will conclude that she looks like a Muslim, but the addition of the cross contradicts.

V For Violin

V For Violin

The title refers to the V shaped of Avi's pointed chin. I discovered that the hard thing to shoot of someone playing the violin is that they will all seem to be sleeping.

Thoughts

Thoughts

Someone here in deep thoughts... Nah, maybe just posing for the shot.

Man With Hat

Man With Hat

The man with hat, Glenn. This shot is quite practically a more close up version of the previous photo "Shade It".

Shade It

Shade It

Glen. I was experimenting with hard light. Stand quite far back and took this picture. I actually like how the lights spread out on him and light part of the wall around him. The dark lower part of the image brings the subject to "light".

Overwarmed

Overwarmed

"Overcooked" Evelynn. This tink just somehow gives me a correct feeling to the picture. I tried to change it, but seems that I still like this colour tint best.

The Girl With The Umbrella

The Girl With The Umbrella

Jolyn, our regular model for the shootings. Spinning the umbrella cause the blur swirl of it. Her expression, so elegant, too bad that most of the time when she was modeling, I need to run a few errands.

Boast The Teeth

Boast The Teeth

A continuation from the previous photo "Boast An Eye", this one boasting the teeth. Just shame that the teeth is a little our of focused compared to the "bloated" eye.



The magnification of a magnifying glass depends on where it is placed between the user's eye and the object being viewed, and the total distance between the eye and the object. Magnifying glasses are typically described in terms of their magnifying power, which is equivalent to angular magnification (this should not be confused with optical power, which is a different quantity). The magnifying power is the ratio of the sizes of the images formed on the user's retina with and without the lens.^[2] For the "without" case, it is typically assumed that the user would bring the object as close to the eye as possible without it becoming blurry. This point, known as the near point, varies with age. In a young child it can be as close as 5 cm, while in an elderly person it may be as far as one or two metres. Magnifiers are typically characterized using a "standard" value of 0.25 m.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Boast An Eye

Boast An Eye

I found an old magnifying glass while ransacking through the studio's store room trying to look for more reflectors. Well, it adds quite an effect.

Mystery of The Dark

Mystery of The Dark

Evelynn in another shot looking a little mysterious and teasing.

Noisy Portrait

Noisy Portrait

Evelynn's photo was originally very very underexposed. It was lit using one hot light at a low shutter speed. The raw file was overexposed that results in the noisinest. I further add more noise effect to the picture to further exaggerate them and makes the photo a category of its own. Not smooth and rich in colours like those in the magazine, but dark, pale and full of noise like some old photographs.

Good Old Friend

Good Old Friend

Avi posing with Felix's cello. Of course his pose looks to suggest that he is really familiar with the cello.

The cello is typically made from wood, although other materials such as carbon fibre or aluminum may be used. A traditional cello has a spruce top, with maple for the back, sides, and neck. Other woods, such as poplar or willow, are sometimes used for the back and sides. Less expensive cellos frequently have tops and backs made of laminated wood.

The top and back are traditionally hand-carved, though less expensive cellos are often machine-produced. The sides, or ribs, are made by heating the wood and bending it around forms. The cello body has a wide top bout, narrow middle formed by two C-bouts, and wide bottom bout, with the bridge and sound holes just below the middle.

The top and back of the cello has decorative border inlay known as purfling.

Cello manufacturer Luis & Clark constructs cellos from carbon fiber. Carbon fiber cellos are particularly suitable for outdoor playing because of the strength of the material and its resistance to humidity and temperature fluctuations.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Peering Thru The Waist

Peering Thru The Waist

Avi peering through the "waist" of the violin.

Power to The Bow

Power to The Bow

Avi, our other model in the studio shooting. Avi as if asking for some magical power blessed to the bow while holding a glowing violin. To top it of, the curved shadow caused by the rounded background adds to a little more magical touch to the picture.

Cool

Cool

With a post so cool and macho, Yu Han just lacks a knife on his hand to make him looks like the next big chef. The photo actually reminds me of chef Ramsey, the non-stop swearing celebrity chef.

Man In Black

Man In Black

What i really like about this picture is the "contrast". Not only that the picture is quite extreme in the white to the black, but the shadow falling on Yu Han's is "contrasting" too. The nose, the little glimpse of light that lit his left eye, and his lips.

Sexy Lips

Sexy Lips

This is one of our models that was present during the studio shooting. Her name is Evelyn. The photo has been converted top black and white with a "beauty glow" filter applied.

Tuning the Concentration

Tuning the Concentration

The guitar dude is playing to his heart content. I love the way how the light falls onto the guitar and the mystery that the picture hide.



An acoustic guitar is one not dependent on an external device to be heard but uses a soundboard which is a wooden piece mounted on the front of the guitar's body. The acoustic guitar is quieter than other instruments commonly found in bands and orchestras so when playing within such groups it is often externally amplified. Many acoustic guitars available today feature a variety of pickups which enable the player to amplify and modify the raw guitar sound.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Violen Artist

Violen Artist

Our male model, Avi, who is also our current sponsorship manager. The title was deliberately misspelled due to a time when he picked up a cello and start to swing it as if it was a golf stick (of course in no way destructing it).

Ladder Man

Ladder Man

Took a casual photo of Fred, our previous Fotoholics treasurer.

As Light Leaks Through

As Light Leaks Through

A portrait of Glenn that was taken during the 2007 Fotoholics studio session. The title refers to the breach of light that shine on his left eye and cheek.

Meter Me

Meter Me

This is Glen holding a light meter during our previous studio shooting. His eyes contains a lot of expression within. With his white shirt and short hair, they just gave the picture a very clean and neat look.



A light meter is a device used to measure the amount of light. In photography, a light meter is often used to determine the proper exposure for a photograph. Typically a light meter will include a computer, either digital or analogue, which allows the photographer to determine which shutter speed and f-number should be selected for an optimum exposure, given a certain lighting situation and film speed.

There are two general types of light meters: reflected-light and incident-light. Reflected-light meters measure the light reflected by the scene to be photographed. All in-camera meters are reflected-light meters. Reflected-light meters are calibrated to show the appropriate exposure for “average” scenes. An unusual scene with a preponderance of light colors or specular highlights would have a higher reflectance; a reflected-light meter taking a reading would incorrectly compensate for the difference in reflectance and lead to underexposure.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)