Digital View Finder

For me a laptop is as good as a caffeinated drink shared over an interesting topic with my husband. It keeps me alert and enthusiastic 18 hours a day. It could be blogging buddy, a communication specialist, a radio player, a work tool, a mini movie theater, a television for online rugby games, and above […]

An open source technology developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir for GIMP plugin under the Liquid Rescale Library is one of the great discovery that I am eager to try soon. Only then I have to asked hubby to install the Linux OS again after it got deleted during the installation of Windows OS […]

I happen to pass by a studio and ask a lady how much is the cost for developing 5 x 7 photos and I noticed the photo editors who were seated right in front of me who were in line with customers beside them. They were trying to erase the glitches on the ID […]

My choice of camera depends upon my ambition as an amateur photographer and my budget. Although advanced cameras are more diverse than the basic models, they often have wide variety of functions that learning to use them have been a daunting task for me.
First, I tried using compact cameras many years ago. It was […]

Lei willingly pose for me. I tried using the fisheye lens of Mr. Pok with my D40x. It created a unique distorted appearance of the people and objects in front of me.
In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology […]

Verbally people sometimes repeat themselves to attract attention, emphasize a point, or to irritate others. Visual repetition can be used to achieve these very same results.
There are times that I take a second look when I come across instances where objects are repeated in an intriguing or unlikely manner. Like the one I […]

Visual texture can be made up of anything that densely fills all or part of an image. Visual texture usually has no center of attention.
It is important that one should be keen in these three kinds of visual texture:
Harmoniously organized- a close-up shot of a canvas bag’s weave or magnifying the surface of a leaf, […]

Develop an eye for framing.
In this case, framing refers to the technique of surrounding your main subject (partly or in full) with other compositional elements. Framing helps direct the viewer’s eye to an image’s center of interest. It also keeps the eye from wandering outside an image’s border.
Framing can be obvious or subtle. Some […]

More photo assignments arrived last two weeks ago. Aileen S. urged us to continually inspire each other in “The Siroy Project” club.
Photo Assignment #11- children
[week of November 12-18- to be posted on November 19]
Photo Assignment #12- joy
[week of November 19-24- to be posted on November 25]
Photo Assignment #13- tranquility
[week of November 12-18- to be posted […]

How would you like creating an artwork in Photoshop like scrapbooks? Cool right? A new found directory of Free Photoshop Brushes in Chez Plumeau is surely an every graphic artists’ delight.
Wondered why it’s called that way?
A “plumeau” is the french word for ?feather duster?. “Chez Plumeau” is also the name of a famous restaurant located […]