Showing posts with label chinese new year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chinese new year. Show all posts

Monday, February 19, 2007

kung hei fat choi

perhaps it is fitting that i begin this blog at the beginning of the chinese lunar year.
february 18th marked the year of the pig. and a trip to chinatown yielded these:

dr. sun yat-sen:

the motion in this photo was inadvertently captured due to an exposure of 1/100s. the lesson here is to use a faster lens. this zoom lens showed its weakness in the following shot since the widest aperture it had was f/3.5



i noticed during the processing of these photos that the colour on the original raw photos are much more vibrant than can be diplayed in these jpegs. yet another reason why i will try to print my photos rather than post them solely on this blog.

now if you'll excuse me, i have to tend to my red envelopes.