My First Still Life Photo Shoot

This is part of a Studio Lighting course I signed up for $250, 4 lessons. Actually, there was a model shoot before this but still didn't have the time to upload the photos. Got to find a easier way to edit all these RAW format files ...

This is the studio ... nothing much huh but it doesn't really matter in the final shots. Too bad these studio lights are way out of my budget ...



The final product:

Make a Guess: What am I busy with recently?

Hehe, it's Japanese animation! :) I'm hooked on this series called "Monster". There are a total of 74 episodes and I'm only at Episode 25 now. The suspense is killing me, now I understand why DC can sit in front of the TV following the seemingly endless "InuYasha" !

Monster
Genres: Drama, Historical, Horror, Mystery, Police, Psychological
Story:
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, had it all: incredible skill at his work, a rich and beautiful fiancee, and a promising career at his hospital. However, after becoming disenchanted by hospital politics, he chose to save the life of a young boy who got shot in the head over the life of the mayor. As a result he lost the support of the hospital director, as well as his position in the hospital and his fiance. A short time later, the hospital director and the doctors that replaced him were murdered, and once again he was catapulted back onto the top. But as the chief suspect of the murders, Tenma did not get a easy life. As a matter of fact, it seems that the boy he saved was much more than he had appeared to be... Now to clear his name and to correct his past mistake, Tenma must get to the bottom of these and other murders, and investigate the truth of the Monster who is behind all of this.



Love Hina
Another anime that I've completed watching is "Love Hina". Hehe, this interest me 'cos it's a romantic series. But, after watching the TV anime series and all the related anime (Movies: Love Hina X'mas Special - Silent Eve and Spring Special - I wish your Dream and OAV: Love Hina again), I'm a little disappointed... there is no proper closing to the story. I like to watch dramas with happy ending, not open-ended ones.

Genres: Comedy, Romance
Story:
Keitaro Urashima is determined to be accepted into Tokyo University, the hardest Japanese University of all to get into, because of a promise he made to a girl when he was young... a girl whose name he can't even remember. After failing to get into Tokyo U twice, he is kicked out by his parents and goes to live with his Grandmother at her hotel, but it seems it has been turned into an all girls boarding house. What's more, much to his surprise and to the tenants disgust, Keitaro is made manager of the boarding house.

Taiwan trip in May

Finally, I get to go for the company trip this year, and it's off to Taiwan. I had missed the company trips in the previous 3 years due to work committments ... finally. I'll be going on the 4th May. CP will join me on 6th May and we'll stay till 8th May. Hehe, just bought additional 2 x 2GB high speed SD cards yesterday. Probably gonna get another one, that means I'll be bringing 9 GB worth or memory. Hope there will be lots of pics to take :)

Sis's Birthday

She treated us to tim sum today. It was her birthday cum promotion treat. :)

Happy Birthday, Sis!

Good Morning Merlion

Don't know what has bitten into me ... I actually were able to wake up at 5:30 a.m. to go down to Esplanade for a morning shoot. So down we go, CP and me.

Still pitch dark when we reached ... I didn't know exactly know what I'm going to get but I had seen some pretty good photos taken by others at dawn there.

It fortunate that we reached before 6:30 a.m. because at 6:30 a.m., the Merlion starts to gush out the stream of water from its mouth. Before that, the water was so still that the reflections of the buildings on it were very very clear! Manage to grab some shots then. Not a bad trip at all.