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Star­craft II, one of the most antic­i­pated games in the world has finally arrived in all its glory.

Too bad my com­puter is still in the work­shop… argh…!!!

Never mind, since I can­not play, let’s take some pic­tures of the boxes, let’s do some light paint­ing! I’ve always wanted to do light paint­ing for quite some time already.

The Evil Unleashed — Star­craft II light painting.

The setup is rel­a­tively easy com­pare to other types of pho­to­shoot. All I need is a sub­ject (Star­craft II boxes here) and a light source (I used a multi-LED torch­light). Once the setup is done, switch off all the lights, release the shut­ter for 10 sec­onds and start swing­ing the torch­light here and there. The hard­est part of all is to try to get a nice ran­dom pat­tern of the lights.

I took over 40 shots and I am most sat­is­fied with the shot above. I really like how the pic­ture turned out. It looks like some spir­its unleashed from the boxes and fly­ing around.

So I named this picture,

“The Evil Unleashed”.

Can’t wait for my com­puter to be back this Fri­day (hope­fully). Until then, let the war begins!

P/S: I’ve updated my blog footer (scroll down) with pho­tos from my Flickr. How is it? Please refresh if things don’t look right.

I took a lot of pic­tures recently but I couldn’t process them because my iMac is still in the work­shop

Thanks to Kevin for lend­ing me his old Mac­Book or else I would died of boredom.

While I was brows­ing through Flickr, I saw a very nice photo col­lage. I got inspired and wanted to try it out myself.

I dug out some old pho­tos of friends and col­leagues taken with my iPhone, added some vin­tage effects and arrange them nicely in Photoshop.

Clock­wise from top left: Kevin, Max, Richie, Ted, Peter, Reuben, Sophea and Tim.

After I’m done, it got me think­ing, some­times, pho­tog­ra­phy is really not about megapixel, aper­ture or ISO. When we go back to basic, what really mat­ters is noth­ing else but the peo­ple that we want to remember.

After­all, pho­tog­ra­phy is all about pre­serv­ing mem­o­ries. And you can do that even with the shit­ti­est cam­era (of course I’m not refer­ring to iPhone, I love my iPhone).

P/S: Vin­tage effects added using lo-mob for iPhone.

My friends and I went to Putra­jaya Flo­ria 2010 for pho­to­shoot­ing. How­ever, the sky was cloudy and every­thing was dull.

With­out much pic­tures taken, we decided to leave. Just when we were walk­ing towards the car, we saw this spec­tac­u­lar view.

Well, I def­i­nitely didn’t expect to return with any good pic­ture that day. While this shot turns out to be quite good.

Pic­ture taken with my new ultra wide angle lens Tok­ina 11–16mm, post-processed in Photoshop.