Sense of Sights

I made a new blog it’s called sense of sights. Basically it is where I posted all of the pictures that I have taken, please check it out and made comment about it.

 

Cheers

 

Gorilla (Monster) Pod, a review

Ever since I bought my new digital camera, I always found difficulty to take timed pictures which include myself on it. This is mainly because : first, I didn’t have a tripod, second,We were unfortunate enough to take pictures in a place that didn’t have elevated flat surface and lastly I didn’t trust random people easily to take pictures with my camera (because sometimes the pictures would turn out to be bad)

Then one day after reading an article in lifehacker, regarding a tripod which you could use ANYwhere and attach itself to almost anything. The tripod itself is called a gorilla pod (even though I didn’t see the resemblance between the tripod and gorilla (it look more like a monster to me)), it is bendy, small and lightweight thus essentials for photographer who is always on the go.

Finished with the article I went to the product website, found out that the price for the tripod is USD 25 (with international shipping, the total would be USD 45) for the packaged. The “eco-packaged” is priced cheaper due to the lack of packaging (USD 22), and both comes with 6 different colours.

Then yesterday, I went to the Sunway Pyramid and see that there is a promotional fair of digital photography and video recording with brands like Nikon, Canon, Samsung and JVC presents. Interested I went to the one of the booth and realised that they have the original gorilla pod, priced only for RM 50 or USD 16. To make the review short I bought it, and tried as soon as I got back.

The first impression I got when I have the Gorilla Pod that felt light yet sturdy, of course because of its ability to bend, it somehow looked very bizarre and creepy in some kind of way. Then I attached the clips onto my digital camera and begin to play around with its “tentacle”. The very first position that I tried is of course the normal tripod position and found that it is very stable on the flat surface.

Next position would be more difficult like attaching it on my chair’s handle, very stable as well

Well after this I’ll try to attach my camera on it, but I don’t dare enough to put it in my chair handle, thus I put it on my water bottle, and then again it was stand there like it was climbing it, very stable.

The tripod also comes with safety precaution for those worried about their camera. It included the lock to securely attached your camera which can be seen in the picture below.

In conclusion, I was very satisfied with the product and believe that USD 25 is already a good price. It is very secured and strong when it is attached to any surface, Joby also provide the Gorilla Pod for DSLR and DSLR zoom for those looking one (of course different price). The only drawback with this tripod that I found is that sometimes it is hard to turn the lock or to detach your camera from the tripod, other than that it is top notch.

Cheers

I’m on Junk!!

Well not me actually, it’s one of the photography I sent for the feedback cover contest 2 months back. Last month edition did not mention mine and there is no email to confirm that I’m winning anything then, thus I didn’t even think that it will get accepted.

Well anyway, I had 2 photographs that I was considering to sent to Junk, on the advice of lintang, I sent the first one, which features Petaling Street at dusk (which I also used on one of my post). 

 

 

The other one is more monochromatic, only featuring a blue balloon on the end of the photo, which can be seen below. This is taken on Sunway College while waiting for the Cultural Night audition. 

 

 

And today when I was going to bookstores and checking on the magazine stands a new edition of Junk was there, based on premonition I checked out the Feedback sections and lo and behold. 

 

 

It was accepted!, haha this is even better than finishing my pharmacology exams earlier. At some point, however, I was embarrassed that I did not include my full name and IC and this makes them to put the notification to tell me that better send it next time.

Back to the purpose of sending the picture, it was to confirm whether one could produce a good/artistic photography with the use of normal P&S camera (non lomo or DSLR) and with this I think I already get the answer.

Well anyway, thanks for Junk to feature my photo and Lintang for giving me advice on which one should I picked.

 

Cheers 

Le Livre Faux

Thus I christen you, and shall name you: “Le Livre Faux”

Thanks tang

Much love for you, for your love and understanding for this three days, helping me in my weakest states. 

Much love for you my light at the end of the tunnel

My brightest stars among others in the skies

My loveliest of everything I had.  

Tools to keep up and running

As much as I wanted to keep up this blog, I still haven’t figure out how to manage the time writing this while writing my reports as well and sorting out my life. Fortunately lifehacker.com had a post on 10 tools that can help us in keeping up our blog, which is probably could get pretty handy at times.

As I read through the commentaries I found out that there is something interesting, it is about  Windows live writer, which is a privilege to Windows users only. My good friend Gerry had mentioned in his post. Unfortunately for OS X user did not have this privilege, which is quite embarrassing as the it had and always been portrayed as the creative machinery. 

Well anyway, I would probably try some of the tools provided above, and write another post again. 

Cheers

It’s a depressing world out there

And yet, my existence just burdening her more.

Such is life

And after all that, the sun would still rises on the east

the world is still keeping its pace.

time is as cruel as ever, crushing many behind.

our mind is still free and wild as it could be

but our body restricted the mind, once and always 

such is life.

Testing with safari

On my last post, I was trying to use flock to post a writing to this blog, which is done successfully (and beautifully, even though I still couldn’t post a picture using its web clipboard. To tell you the truth, I was always using my firefox (version 2) to writing my post. Not because I hate Safari, but when it comes to blog posting in WordPress, it sucks.And then yesterday the Apple have upgraded their safari to version 3.1, now I’m trying to use safari to blog posting, and will see the outcome as soon as I finished writing this.  Thumbnail above is how the posting should appear in my blog, I’ll update you guys how it appear actually in my blog.Update: This is what actually what’s coming out   

A trial

Now, I’m trying to use flock to post my blog posting, which is seems pretty awesome but let’s just see how’s the results going to be shown on the blog.

For you guys who have no idea what flock is, it is actually a new free web browser, which is aimed and made specifically for the web 2.0 world. It is provided with a side bar which contain all the social networking (facebook, filckr, youtube, twitter) as well as media sharing, blogging and online bookmarking site which is generally almost all those you need to kill time.

why is it cool? aside you could post up blog directly from your browser (you don’t need to go your site), you could check facebook without also going to the site, it is also functioning as a great normal web browser because it is powered by mozilla (see the thumbnail).

So if you guys a new web browser directly use for your web 2.0 life, you could get flock here and found all the information there as well.

Cheers!

Blogged with Flock

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