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Archive for April, 2010

Maestro Illuminist mobile site!

Maestro Illuminist mobile site on iPhone

Maestro Illuminist is now accessible as a custom mobile version for your touch friendly smartphones!

New Maestro Illuminist Logo!!

New Maestro Illuminist Logo

I’ve decided to jazz up the website logo a bit :D The old one’s all classy looking but I want something a bit more modern to go with the design of the site.

HDR look of Seattle

HDR of Downtown Seattle

During my recent trip to Seattle, I’ve made my first serious attempt at taking HDR photos. Here’re the fruits of my labor! First up’s the iconic Space needle: Then we have the shot of downtown Seattle: This is really one of the best situation to use HDR. It was raining the day I went up [...]

Photoshop CS5

Adobe CS5

Adobe has just released the new CS5 suite of designer programs this morning. For us photographers, we’re mostly interested in the new Photoshop CS5. Apart from some new handy lens correction tools, the features that really caught my eyes are the “content-aware” fill and HDR processing.

New “blog” category!

Blog

I’ve created a new category of posts simply called “blog” – basically a separate category where I can discuss topics related to photography but not necessarily showcasing my work. Hopefully like-minded photography lovers can join in the conversations!

Nature in motion

Nature in Motion

Tried some new techniques involving long exposure plus camera motion. This gives a sense of motion and drama to otherwise common static objects, such as these plants here. These two shots combined zooming with long exposure. I’m really fond of the floral one as it gives sense of color explosion :) This one involves camera [...]