Of mice and markets
09:14 AM on Friday 10 May 2013
Interesting article in the effects of markets. http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/xX6qebUggv8/
Esther's food art
08:48 AM on Friday 10 May 2013
Esther likes to play with her food, arranging them in various forms. This was one of the best :-)
Monitor color calibration
11:17 AM on Wednesday 01 May 2013
After the update to mountain lion, I have not done a color calibration on the monitor which is probably a bad idea. After noticing that the colors appear to be rather off, I finally took the time and did the calibration and boy was it off. Lesson learnt, after one makes the investment in a monitor c ...
Minecraft Steve
10:09 PM on Monday 22 April 2013
Esther and I made two Minecraft Steve out of paper. We took Steve's skin and edited it in Adobe Illustrator to get the diagram on paper. Then we transferred it to Make the cut to print using the Brother DCP-J725DW and cut it using the Silhouette Cameo. Then it is just a matter of folding and stickin ...
Trip to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
08:04 PM on Monday 15 April 2013
It seems that we are doing nature reserves these couple of weeks. This week, it is off to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.
Seeing doubles
09:54 PM on Sunday 14 April 2013
Inspired by some photos taken by Pauline's friend, we decided to have some fun with creating doubles :-) We set up the tripod so that everything stays the same, focusing was manually set and shutter priority at 1/640 was used. The single images were then post processed in Photoshop. The only thing w ...
Trip to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
08:58 PM on Monday 08 April 2013
Ernest had to do a project on protecting nature reserves so off we went to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve to take a look at the dos and don'ts at the park.
Macro fun
08:07 AM on Tuesday 02 April 2013
Some random macro shots of things on my table. Trying to improve my focusing and macro settings especially getting a sense of the depth of field. Lighting is rather important at the small apertures that is needed for macro. Seems that my inability to focus well was a combination of large aperture re ...
Trip to Qian Hu
07:34 AM on Tuesday 02 April 2013
We made a trip down to Qian Hu for the kids to have some fun. Esther did some feeding of the koi and the turtles while Ernest did some prawning. I on the other hand took some photos.