I start work quite early recently (start exactly when the sun rises)  and I am able to see the warm colour and the beautifully patterned cloud shone by the sunrise.  It happens almost every morning except thick-clouded days.

I take the photos whenever I see beautiful clouds, and as I mentioned earlier, I will post it on the last day of the month.

I feel great when a day is started with the beautiful cloud outside my window.  :D

I have got my new lightbox to shoot product photos.  Previously I was using just a piece of cloth and a hand held bulb which is not as easy to use as this lightbox.  Now what I have to do is just put the objects into the lightbox, adjust the light and start shooting.

I tried to shoot at different objects, the background is very easy to control.  I have got 4 colours now - white, black, blue and red.

The position of the light source is very important as well.  I am still learning about studio lighting. If the light sources are placed correctly, it can show the details on the objects with more 3D effects.

These are the details of the seashell.

Another issue is the colour temperature.  I found that it is a bit blueish when I first try to shoot into the lightbox, the bulb is 5500k, then I have adjusted the white balance setting in my camera so that the photos look more natural.

This is a typical lighting arrangement, sometimes there can be another extra light from the top as well.

I am going to shoot a lot of things soon inside my lightbox.

It is almost the end of 2nd quarter of 2011 now, have you reviewed your new year resolutions for 2011?

It is Monday today, while some people choose to do weekend count down again, why not motivate ourselves by reviewing our goals / targets which we had set early this year.

Let’s reach for the sky!

I found this dragonfly when we went jogging last week.  The dragonfly has lost its focus on the photo above, whereas the leafless branch catches more attention.  However, without the dragonfly, the lonely poor leafless branch has nothing special.

The dragonfly was flipping its wings and getting ready to fly away.

I am not sure if the dragonfly can be seen on the mobile phone browsers.  Anyway, let me crop it more so that it can be seen.

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SiewPeng and I talked about dragonfly just now.  She asked why it is not called lionfly, tigerfly, catfly or dogfly.  Funny…

SiewPeng bought a colourful-plastic-net pencil case when we visited a book fair last week.

It is colourful and I couldn’t wait to put it inside my light box and took its photo while it is still new.

I took its photo from different angle while SiewPeng helped me to hold the light source.

Some area on the pencil case has reflection, I used the polarizer filter to reduce the reflection that appear white.

This pencil case might look different after the time has passed.  The colours might fade.  Now, it is brand new.

I posted about my old metal pencil cases about a year ago.  At the time, I decided to discard them, but luckily I didn’t.  Now I found it useful and continue to use it.

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I am interested in taking products photographs for advertisement purposes.  May be I should invest in a proper light box to take the photo of different products.  The following are some of my works with the object in my self-made light box.
1.  Radio.
2.  Buah Keranji.
3.  Buah Pulasan (a Friut looks like Rambutan).
4.  Roselle - Rozel - Luo Shen - Asam Susur.
5.  Bunapi Shimeji Mushroom.