saying goodbye to wordpress

going into the new horizon :D

canon ixy 910 is

to my faithful readers (if there are any…), I have moved my photoblog into a new home at my own .net. if you have me on your links and all that please do update your blogrolls and bookmarks and whatnots into this new address :) :

http://www.wastefulspace.net/sidemirrorshooting

Thanks wordpress.com for being such a gracious host/hideaway for the past month. But now I use your very yummy wordpress publishing platform.

:) It’s time to fly.

the american war memorial

I was determined to go to the American War Memorial (AWM) for a shoot of sorts and today I did. I picked a time where the sun was high and rising, and since it was a war memorial, I dressed up to pay respects for the dead, but still comfortable enough for shooting (meaning jeans, a collared shirt, a loose shirt, tie, and my chucks).

I drove there at around 12, missed a turn and wasted a good 5-10 minutes for the detour, talking to the guard, and parking. I hopped out of the car and into the hot, hot sun. I carried my messenger bag with Vivi, Av-1, and renault a notepad and pen and studied the area.

Mostly I gaped. I was greeted with vast plains of greens, a sea of whites, and a field of deep blue. I feel like I want to pull apart and do everything in that precious span of 30 minutes I have.

I have never been in such a vast landscape of crosses in my life. They seem to stretch out from a far distance and when you think they’re all in a straight line, think again as when you change angles they seem to go in curves..

God bless those who rest here…

Depth of Field(DoF), Scheimpflug principle, hyperfocal distance, and more nosebleed moments

During Bai’s birthday lunch. I pestered him about fiddling the DoF on my AV-1. Turns out, there was no Depth of Field preview for it. All I can hope for is twiddle with the aperture and hope for good results. Nyaha.

Anyway here’s the full blown, nose-bleeding, formula-counting terminologies @Wikipedia, but as always a sort excerpt for the photog33ks :)

In optics, particularly film and photography, the depth of field (DOF) is the distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus.

//insert really, REALLY long explanation about

• 1 Apparent sharp focus
• 2 Effect of f-number
• 3 Camera movements and DOF
• 4 Obtaining maximum DOF
• 5 Limited DOF: selective focus
• 6 Near:far distribution
• 7 Depth of field formulae
• 8 DOF vs. format size
• 9 Photolithography
• 10 Ophthalmology and optometry
• 11 Increasing DOF by digital compositing
• 12 Derivation of the DOF formulae

I tried reading…the keyword is tried and tried to understand before posting anything relevant in fact I have some crazy examples on how lame I am on the aspect of DOFs. :D

Bai explained how DOFs depend on the aperture and the lens. The higher the aperture (meaning smaller the number), the smaller the DOF is. So most probably, I shouldn’t be using a f/1.8 if there are 3 people in the scene…like so…

roovin’s the only one focused here. haha.

I am guessing I’m using a f/1.8 or a 2.8 here. I focused Roovin on the center, and left harmy and helen to sort of blur in the background. To correct this, I should’ve used a lower aperture like a 5.6 as suggested by Bai when shooting groups.

With regards to lens (and I cannot really tell on my own since I only have my kit lens here with me) effect, I remember one example. For shooting insects on a macro lens, you have to lower the aperture to around 16-22, or your bug’s eyes will be the only clear thing you’re seeing.

some other formal explanation from the Wikipedia site earlier.

The image format size also will affect the depth of field. The larger the format size, the longer a lens will need to be to capture the same framing as a smaller format. In motion pictures, for example, a frame with a 12 degree horizontal field of view will require a 50 mm lens on 16 mm film, a 100 mm lens on 35 mm film, and a 250 mm lens on 65 mm film. Conversely, using the same focal length lens with each of these formats will yield a progressively wider image as the film format gets larger: a 50 mm lens has a horizontal field of view of 12 degrees on 16 mm film, 23.6 degrees on 35 mm film, and 55.6 degrees on 65 mm film. What this all means is that because the larger formats require longer lenses than the smaller ones, they will accordingly have a smaller depth of field. Therefore, compensations in exposure, framing, or subject distance need to be made in order to make one format look like it was filmed in another format.

I basically understood about that on most part. What really got me was the Camera Movements and the DOF as well as the…come again..Scheimpflug principle…oh boys…let’s read on shall we?

Normally, the lens and image (film or sensor) planes of a camera are parallel, and the plane of focus (PoF) is parallel to the lens and image planes. If a planar subject (such as the side of a building) is also parallel to the image plane, it can coincide with the PoF, and the entire subject can be rendered sharply. If the subject plane is not parallel to the image plane, it will be in focus only along a line where it intersects the PoF, as illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1. With a normal camera, when the subject is not parallel to the image plane, only a smallregion is in focus.

I was reading that part over and over again (even tried gazing once or twice at the diagrams and got a nosebleed). I have an example that’s quite like Figure 1 over there,which is this one.

looks the same!

Will continue on this tomorrow…my brain is spinning *laughs

note: I continued on hyperfocal distance at the next entry :D

photoworld 2008!

The yearly event for photography is back on at Glorietta Activity Center, Makati on January 31-Feb 5. Trade shows ftw!

PDF brochure here.

I asked a fellow photography enthusiast at work if he would like to join me in prowling the area. My only target was just to look. Highly emphasize on the word LOOK, tingin lang, 見るだけ, magtan-aw ra, and all other translations of look.

But hey, I can still dream among the clouds, right? (DSLR! FILM! FILM! MORE FILMS! LENSES FOR MY AV-1!! AAAAH!!!)

taken with the Canon IXY 910 IS

take flight to where earth meets the heavens.

I took a chance this morning to go sky-hunting with a close friend. I took my coffee, my cameras, and a pack of malboro lights and headed up my favorite place.

The sky was beautiful. And the floor was full of puddles waiting to be explored.

The last of my rooftop escapades.

All good things must come to an end…

taken with the Canon IXY 910 IS

I’ll tell more when I get home.

A walk to Binondo : Part 1

I took my cameras out for a trip a few weeks ago to Binondo for my first pseudo-shoot. The weather agreed with me as the sun beat down my neck on my dark green top, baggy jeans, and chucks.

the guadalupe-shaw skyline

here are more pics from the rooftop shoot I did yesterday. I forgot to bring my camera today, and I feel naked without it…

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/202 (seconds)
exposure : 1/200(seconds)
aperture : F/8
ISO : 80

the world through my eyes

I always wanted pictures were I can show my artistic side inside my own photos. I had no tripod and I was left to search for my own makeshift tripod. (mental note: buy a tripod soon). There were no other mediums available but a cooler for some air-conditioning device. This is my favorite.

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/159 (seconds)

exposure : 1/160(seconds)

aperture : F/8 (seriously? not a 2.8? *surprised)

ISO : 80

After playing around some more, my camera died on me. Hahah. Anyway I was happy with this one :)

the kalayaan flyover and the makati skyline on digital

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/251 (seconds)

exposure : 1/250(seconds)

aperture : F/2.8

ISO : 80

I have found a haven. 3 flights of steel stairs, hands dusted with gray, powdery, concrete dirt, a leap over cemented hollow blocks and I was greeted by a vast immense space of buildings, bridges and sky.It was 7:30 in the morning. I took a chance to catch what horizon I will be seeing. So far, every chance that I am free for a photo-op, I was blessed with the cloudiest of gloom. But interestingly with patches of golden-orange rays and a peek of blue. Will make do.

Anyway. It was always breath-taking to stand and just watch the world spin madly on.  :) and yes, yes! Here are the pictures.

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/159 (seconds)
exposure : 1/160(seconds)
aperture : F/2.8
ISO : 80

I could stay here and look on from dusk till dawn. Smoking a cigarette and drinking cheapass/gourmet coffee. I love wide open spaces. But too bad the next time I climb up here the view will be blocked with some big-ass building. :(

notice anything else? :D
medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/403 (seconds)
exposure : 1/400(seconds)
aperture : F/2.8
ISO : 80

I will continue standing here until they block the magnificent view from the distance.
I took these in film as well, I wonder how will they turn out :)