HI ALL!!!

=DDD

Great news!!!

Mumtaz won the merit prize for the NUS Montage Youth Category!

wohoo! hahahaha...

This is her winning entry-

hoho! seriously! MJ PHOTOG ROCKS LAAAAAAAA =DDD

Refreshed look for our Good o' photog blog

Do check out the MJC PHOTOG FORUM that Jun Sen set up.

Oh btw, got this idea from deviantart.

Feel free to create your own "stamps"
and no, i am not very free... just very bored

Have a great day!
--quent 

Thank you all for supporting the outing today! I'm very happy. In fact, I'm in a state of euphoria. *high on jolly shandy* (nah, I'm not that lousy a drinker LAH.)

As usual, no photos for another two weeks because I have reverted back to my FM2 whilst my D40 is in safe hands of a friend.

However, a brief recount of what happened today for those who could not make it for the outing~

We trooped into OCH, a strength of twenty people storming into the main entrance of the sorry excuse of a hospital. What seemed to be scary and creepy last September no long looked scary and creepy anymore. After all, the place ought to be scared of us. ROAR! We'll shoot the place to death. Which I think the kiddies did. (I only finished a miserable roll of Velvia 100.)

I managed one group shot at OCH with about 15 people in it... Say the truth, I did a double exposure in the last shot to create a ghost effect. I hope that will turn out nicely like i wanted it to be. The old birds got together in the watch house thingy at the top of the ambulance bay and did a nice group shot. "Old bird exclusive shot", according to Xing Quan.

King and I managed to get onto the flooded roof top, and the view up there was superb. In terms of military watch out point. In any case, OCH was a military base before it was converted to become a hospital because of it's strategic location on top of a hill overseeing the whole of Changi Beach. Can see all the big big small small ships and boats. The way up was kinda difficult too, because it was the kind of roof top access metal ladder through a skinny column and when I reach the top, gravity was pulling back at me more than usual. Both of us having to balance our weight with a cam and bag slung behind, the ladder stopped shot at our waist when we got all the way up the ladder. We had to grab some flimsy piece of wood and the floor of the rooftop to get on. It was still flooded as ever, but we hecked and got on anyway. We got our shoes wet. Urgh. I swear if I ever slip off that darned ladder, I'd definitely die. Oh well. If I break the 15-30mm lens don't mind can cremate with me, and remember to give me a 12 flash gun salute hor. =P

After we left OCH, we went down the hill onto Hendon Road and there was this high wall of about 2 metres high and I had this idea to fit everyone in for a "normal" group shot. In the end, five of us ended up scaling that wall to pose for the group shot, with the occasional passing gaping pedestrians. And not to forget, wide eyed uncle pointing at us from inside the bus as it passed. Of course, we waved like heroes of Iwo Jima. Jun Sen managed to get up SOC style- which is- running, jumping, planting both fists onto wall and PULL. He got a cut on his arm, but our armor infantry boy will do just fine. Vicky's was a little more interesting. She wanted Zheng Hui to give her a leg up, but in the end I grabbed her hips and shoved her as high I could manage, cheerleading style. Mine was... let's say... it got both Vicky and Xiuqi laughing.

*blush, smiles sheepishly*
I put both hands on the top of the wall, climbed up step by step like rock climbing, gave myself a pull, and ended with my stomach on the high wall. I was stuck. I was flailing my arms and legs, trying to "bounce" my way onto the wall. In the end, I screamed for help with my arms and legs still flailing in the air, and Vicky admitted she was hoping she had a cam in her hands at that time. Well... Vicky managed to grab one of my legs as I swung it towards her direction and I rolled onto the wall. Desperate times require desperate measures. I have no idea how Zheng Hui and Xing Quan managed to get onto the wall, but the five of us definitely didnt let the opportunity to cam whore go by. And neither did a few of them let the opportunity of taking our pics to go by. A nice jogger helped us take a few shots despite we were all ready to go with the cam set up on the tripod with the timer winded down. Unfortunately, Yun Su who tried as hard as she could didnt manage to make it up the wall.

The way down was definitely more exciting than the way up. Of course it involved jumping and ass-planting-into-grass-with-knees-that-just-simply-gave-way-to-gravitational-acceleration. After all the guys jumped, Vicky grabbed me in terror. I just jumped before I let her freak me out. Instead of landing in a half squat with the spring of my thighs and shins, my heavy ass planted into the grass first. Ooof. Boy, the grass was soft. Vicky came down next. She's a fine girl who's up for dares.

We left for Kelong Walk along Changi beach but the sky didnt do any good for us today. The sun set into the clouds, but I was content to have seens the kids and kiddies have fun chatting with each other. And there was an apparent inquiry about Zheng Hui's sexual orientation. HMmmmmmmm.... Hahahaha...

Ok that's all from me folks~
Will upload the group shots when I get all my film developed and scanned =)

"PHOTOG!!!!!!" *raises right fist* <--------- this one is from Kingston

*CYMBAL CLASH*

MJC Photography Club is proud to announce that Tay Yong En won the 3rd prize for the NUS Montage Youth category.

She is now a proud owner of a Canon Powershot.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YONG EN!

This is her winning entry-


Not to also forget, the team of Karishma, Kar Mun and Yun Su came in second in the mini competition in the VJ Canon workshop.

Well done kiddies! Grandma is proud of all of you.

Hi guys check out this website-

Jeff Hutchens Photography

His black and white exhibition will be held at Central Lending Library from May 15 to May 30, Level 8. Worth two looks.

*pinches Booby Hair in excitement*

I was chatting with my dear junior Booby Hair about this coming Sunday outing, and an idea for our group shots have materialised in my head. Hope it's gonna be fun.

Since our Perth trip we've been trying to do these "HEROES" type of group shots (mainly scattered models doing different things in the frame looking very cool at the same time), but we were only about 70% successful because we were either bugged to death by the flies (RAWR!), tired to death from the scale of wave rock, or frozen to death in the crazy evening winds (ms koh was hiding behind me, the human windshield)... or the group was simply too big to have everybody in the frame nicely.

SO.

I was thinking of the original idea King actually had before the Perth trip- to have shots of groups of 5... Forming 4 groups for this coming outing. Then each group gets to choose where they want their shots to be taken, HEROES style.

A few spots came to mind yesterday: driveway up Old Commando School, back end of OCH, beach, changi village, jetty, front end of OCH or even in the wards of OCH itself...

*CHASES BOOBY HAIR*

Ciao~

MEETING PLACE: CHANGI VILLAGE BUS TERMINAL (BESIDE THE HAWKER CENTRE)
TIME: 2.00PM SHARP SHARP SHARP
FOOTWEAR: SHOES OR SANDALS (No slippers because there will be many many glass shards on the floor of OCH)
DRESSING: ANYTHING U FEEL COMFY IN, BIKINI ALSO CAN. (BIRTHDAY SUIT NOT ENCOURAGED. IT'S ILLEGAL.) As long as you think you'll look glam enough in your group shots =P
BRING: WATER. CAP, IF YOU'RE SUNOPHOBIC. MOST IMPORTANTLY, CAMERAS!

I just realised Perth is a common place for Singaporeans to have their wedding photos taken while browsing through some of Singapore's wedding photographers' blogs such as JoHo, Yu Hsin and William Chua. And then I started browsing through some perth photos to see what are some of the shots ppl took at the places we went last year.

HEY! Weren't we supposed to do this in Perth?
Speaking about getting sand in your... erm... and someone's dream nightmare about getting pushed off the side and lying in her own pool of blood.


Familiar? (but i think my shot of a rock was still nicer.)


I like this shot


And this shot looks strangely familiar... PPC's collection got smth liddat one...


We all know where this was taken! Just take a look at the gallery again... and you'll find some similar points.


That's all from me for another senseless and pointless post... Cant put up the wedding pics cos they were in flash... either that I'm too lazy...

Behold... the new president has reached enlightenment.

Hope

It's funny... Quent's photo reminds me of my own photo taken sometime back near Ms Lai's car during the canon workshop (er... the workshop was not near Ms Lai's car, the leaves were... workshop in container room)... Quent wasn't there so he didn't see it... what's funnier is... we both gave it the same name... diao... hahaha... what can i say?

beautihoo people think alike? LOL

HOPE

Let's welcome a new film user, the Legend EW CHEE HOWE!! *clap clap clap*
Yes. I went down to Peninsula just to get his film for him. He uses a Canon EOS.


LAST CALL LAST CALL:

ALL THOSE INTERESTED IN COMING FOR THE OUTING ON THE 18TH PLEASE RESPOND TO MACINGROUCH@GMAIL.COM BEFORE TOMORROW! THE QM WILL MAKE SURE YOU GET TO USE THE DSLR!

(Of course you can still get back to me after tomorrow, but most prob might not reserve a DSLR for you, hor.)

*Drum Roll... Cymbal clash*

We're pleased to announce that TWO of our members have been shortlisted in the Light of Life competition, and online voting is now open till 12th May 2008.

Online voting will consist of 10% of the total results.
Every NRIC number is allowed to vote once every day
Please do give our members support

Ask your friends to vote also!

The school will be awarded a trophy if we clinch the top prize.

Vote for Meridian Junior College




"Hope" - by Sim Xiu Jun Quentin






"The light within darkness" - Goh Chin Chye

 

*Drum Roll... Cymbal clash*

The winner of SYPA's MOST ENTHUSIASTIC SCHOOL AWARD goes to...
MERIDIAN JUNIOR COLLEGE!

Just joking.

That's hardly even a valid category.
However, we have 30 entrants from MJC this year, a huge increase of a mere handful two years ago.

We officially rock, peeps!

*Drum Roll... Cymbal clash*

The winner of the $35 Olympus tripod is....

EUNICE CHAN!!!!!!!!!!
since no one else joined the contest -.-

well, u identified the right step but your explanation isn't quite right.

the flaw lies in:

"When n = k + 1,
There are (k+1) horses. Remove 1 horse e.g. horse A. Then we have k horses. From assumption, the k horses have the same colour say olour 1. Replace horse B (of colour 1) in this remaining set with horse A so the number of horses is still k. From assumption, the k horses have the same colour 1. Now put back horse B and we have (k+1) horses of the same colour 1."

Now, he proof is based on ONE fundamental principle. Comparing Horse A and Horse B with the remaining k - 1 horses (let's call the set of k - 1 horses S).

So,
colour of horse B = colour of S = colour of horse A
=> they all have same colour.

Now, the proof falls apart if k - 1 = 0 i.e. when k = 2, because there is NO basis for comparison. so when k = 2, we have 2 horses, horse A and horse B. horse A is the same colour as itself, horse B is the same colour as itself and since S is empty set, there is NO COMMON colour => horses A and B may have different colours.

MAYDAY, MAYDAY!!!!

King and I walked from Raffles place to Chinatown to Outram park, then took train to City Hall and walked up Benjamin Shears bridge. One word- Tired.

First we had lunch had Hock Lam. WHA the one at China Sq is more ex than the one at Purvis lorr. After lunch we went to see the old old old old temple opposite Far East Square but it was so overwhelmed with joss smoke that I stood outside to wait. King said it says no photography inside. I had this idea to take a pic of the twirling joss sticks with the shadows, but too much urban clutter.

Then I said I wanna go Smith Street to take some shots, so we trudged there. After taking some shots (as you will see later), King pointed at the quaint looking apartments near Outram and went "HEY! CAN WE GO THERE?!?" so we went, and unwittingly went up Pearl's Hill and took a walk around the hill. We didnt take any photos up there, but it was a really nice walk. It's quiet and quite a nice hideout. Hahaha.

We then decided to go up Benjamin Sheares bridge. We walked to Suntec, then took a super long time to find the staircase up the Rochor exit. We had to walk through some construction site, trudge through loads of sticks and twigs and dead leaves, then up the staircase, and by the time we had to start our ascend, I was so tired and my shins were super tired and stretched and *WILLPOWER WILLPOWER WILLPOWER, GEAR ONE!!! GEAR ONE!! UPPITTEE UPPITTEE UP!!!* so by the time we reached the top for a good view of the Flyer, we slumped on the side of the pedestrian walkway to catch a breather. We stoned up there for quite long before coming down again. It was nice, soaking in the evening sun~

Photos photos-
Taken outside the chinese temple

Taken outside an old chinese school for chinese immigrants' children, now a chinese restaurant

Taken at Chinatown, a little quaint corner which had many quaint shops. This is their opening hours

Took this at Smith Street, nice hor? Got use ND filter, that's why the colours are slightly nicer and less glaring due to hot sun

Took this at Pearl's Hill Park

This is the WW2 monument at City Hall, nice and rusty colours

Shot on Benjamin Sheares bridge

All shot with my D40, with occasional help of King's super duper wide and nice (and expensive) 14mm lens...

lai lai lai chewrens, join the following contest and stand a chance to win a $35 Olympus TRIPOD!!!!!

Spot the error in the following proof:

Claim: All horses are of the same colour

Proof by Mathematical Induction:
Let P(n) be the statement "n horses are of the same colour" for positive integers n

When n = 1, there is only 1 horse and one horse is of the same colour as itself.
Therefore, P(1) is true.

Assume that P(k) is true i.e. "k horses are of the same colour"

To prove: P(k+1) is also true i.e. "(k+1) horses are of the same colour"

When n = k+1,
There are (k+1) horses. Remove 1 horse e.g. horse A. Then we have k horses. From assumption, the k horses have the same colour say Colour 1. Replace horse B (of colour 1) in this remaining set with horse A so the number of horses is still k. From assumption, the k horses have the same colour 1. Now put back horse B and we have (k+1) horses of the same colour 1!
Thus, P(k) is true => P(k+1) is also true!
Since P(1) is true and P(k) is true => P(k+1) is also true, by Mathematical Induction, P(n) is true for all positive integers n.

=)

Now now... babies... some advice...

1. DO NOT call PPC and me "Mr and Mrs Cheng" -.-
2. DO NOT... i repeat... DO NOT CLIMB SCHOOL GATE!
3. It's A.V.A.I.L.A.B.L.E not A.L.A.I.V.A.B.L.E... LOL
4. pronounce PHOTOGRAPHY properly... everybody repeat after Cherish.. "ferTORgrefi" not "fotograhfee"
5. When I am lecturing and walk up the aisle with a mic looking for someone to answer my question and you were originally sitting along the aisle, DON'T SUDDENLY scoot inwards the row... I WILL NOTICE.
6. After PE, pls DON'T enter the club room... you notice... our room is the only one in college with NO windows.
7. Treasurer: put more money in the kitty box... it will grow. If it doesn't work, ask Grandma Eunice to put it in for you.
8. QM: If you find Canon lens missing... don't panic... I probably took it... =P... so call me before PPC scolds you... haha
9. Project Manager: When planning outdoor trips... choose easily accessible places... climbing longkang is not a good idea.
10. Finally, do not break anything because people will remember it FOREVER! LOL

Journey Identified:
The journey undertaken by 6 "kids" in MJC Photography Club...

Before:
6 babies in May 2007... newbies... innocent

Stage 1:
First Exhibition: Glimpses of Singapore
- set up exhibition in front of printing shop
- then... diao... kena looked in college... gates locked... can't get out
- climbed school gate with teacher

Effects:
Highly emotional moment - v thrilling! LOL

Stage 2:
Perth trip
- travelled 4 hours to a desert to shoot sand n rocks

Effects:
Realised the importance of sunblock

Stage 3:
Prom Night Shoot
- crazy printing
- left hotel about 1:30am
- had supper at 3 am
- reached home at 5am
- got to report to college at 10am -.-

Effects:
Realised the importance of 24-hour eateries
Grew closer to Jin Bei

Stage 4:
Arrival of Newborns
- Orientation
- finally got someone to tekan

Effects:
Inspired to share their experiences

After:
May 2008... experienced seniors who can't wait to tekan juniors

Journey 2: For 7 "babies" to achieve the same effects as Journey 1
... let's wait and see ^^

her her her...

yesterday after our photoshoot in T12 PPC giggled goofily (u all can picture this right?)

PPC: Eh Ann, wanna go see our new babies*?
me: babies? (i thought he meant lens baby... diao...)
PPC: the new exco!
me: Oh...? okok hee =D

*Note that we call Quentin they all "our kids" and Eliot n gang "our babies"? hahaha

So we walked to the club room but not before hijacking some leftover food from council investiture tea at garden =P

we opened the door and saw our "babies" perched in front of the monitors in one row... really like in a hospital nursery... LOL

PPC: where's Eliot??!!
everyone: er... he went outside..
PPC: i want to talk to you guys but Eliot is not here??? *act angry* how can? I never had to ask, "Where's Quentin?" cos Quentin is ALWAYS here!!

haha

so well, we had the chit chat session and Eliot was handed a piece of paper by Quentin they all with a "list of things to do" and it was in bulleted form, single-line spacing and it overflowed to page 2... i could feel Eliot go -_______-||| LOL

some of the advice given to the babies..

Quentin: this is roughly the time u START meeting (it was about 4:30pm)
someone else: ya... n it will end 3 hours later
quentin: when u no longer see light at the bottom of the door... that's when u can go home

LOL

quentin: when u want to tell Mr Cheng something, email him ONE WEEK before, sms him 2 DAYS before then call him on the actual day to remind him... that's how it works
PPC: hey! that's how it works! but it WORKS!!! =D

hahaha... all the best, "our babies"!

What's In A Name

Hm... I was thinking... if u didn't get President post... it might be because of your name...

1. It doesn't sound ATAS (high class)
2. It doesn't remind people of someone/something famous

such as...

KINGSTON CF cards
QUENTIN Tarantino (famous director)
George ELIOT (pseudonym of famous 19th century writer Marian Evans. Last time, way way before Mah Tah wore shorts, people didn't think highly of female writers so she used a male fake name 'pseudonym')

Btw, did you hear the councillor fumble over Quentin's name? "All CG Reps are to meet Qu..Qu..en Quentin and Cherish..."

LOL

EXCO 08/09

Hello all,
You might already (or might not) know the new EXCO... but well let me annouce the new exco.
7 EXCO Positions this year. New Post: Project Manager, would be in-charge of organising outings, events within club involving members.

EXCO 08/09
President: Elliot
Vice-President: Victoria
Secretary/Treasurer: Vanessa
Quarter-Master: Angeline
Creative Director: Shirleen
Gallery Director: Zheng Hui
Project Manager: Mumtaz

Congrats to the 7!
For the rest of the J1s, do not be upset if you are not selected. Dont be a slacker! Retain your passion for photography. For the new exco: Good luck! (You'll really need it) Maintain the standard (which is very high already) of Photography > MJC! 

The more you shoot, the more you learn
-QUENTIN

Announcement:

As people go to church on sunday mornings and the buddhists to the temples on vesak day, I'm organising an outing for ALL interested Photography Club members (when I say "all", I mean both J1s, J2s, teachers are welcomed) on the 18th May, Sunday afternoon 2pm - 7pm (day before Vesak Day holiday).

If you're interested in Singapore's abandoned buildings, this is definitely the catch for you. Going Changi area mainly Old Changi Hospital, Changi Village and Changi beach. Equipment wise you can bring anything from your PnS to DSLR/SLR, tripod, filters (if you have any), and of course for the SLR users- LENSES. Wide for the landscapes, zoom for the birds and primes for the people.

If you happen to have an old film camera at home that belonged to your dad or mom and not too sure how to use it but super interested to learn how, you may also bring it along. Just check with your parents whether it's still in perfect working condition, and I'll teach you how to use it. (Please bring your own film.)

You will be notified through email, about more details regarding this trip. You are kindly required to reply.

Silent readers, it's time to speak up now. If you have any suggestions or questions regarding this trip, or you are interested but damn scared of ghosts, (I can assure you that there's none except for blood-like splatters) please post them on the tag board.

Your participation and enthusiasm will be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

Beautihoo chewrens,

Mr Cheng, QTPL GMOP Mr T and I are like cracking our brains about photos for Pre-U Sem. we also don't have time to go out and shoot so much. If you have NICE (nice means got standard) pics of the following, pls contribute:

MRT, roads, airport, shipyards, esplanade, Singapore flyer, other iconic structures.

Parks, botanic garden, nature, shopping centres, fitness centres, …

HDB flats, twisted bridge (along Alexandra road), keppel marina, cruise centres, …

Singapore river, night scenes, cityscapes,…

People at work

People at play

Faces (this one cam-whoring pics need not apply)

if anyone's father got helicopter or knows someone's father who has helicopter that we can borrow for FREE, pls introduce.

thanks!

Today Colosseum I was happily shooting shooting with my cousin's 5D then suddenly when I looked into the viewfinder, it was pitch dark. NOTHING. ORH ORH one... i tried to click click... nothing. press here press there. nothing. switch off switch on. nothing. then showed PPC he also stunned a bit at first then he, "oh! your mirror dropped out!" i was like ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! mirror dropped out???? he removed the lens and true enough, the mirror dropped out

-.-

i panicked... "how how how???" *GASP* but PPC v cool, used his little pinkie kick it back then ask me to screw back lens and send for servicing.

i told G and she *JAW DROP* and asked, "what were you all doing man? use until so ji lie?"

-.-

what should i tell my cousin man?

Hi hi hi hi hi!
I is a back to share some more photos from Digital Photographer of the Year by Digital Photography. (If you hadn't known, that's a magazine. Which I love reading.)

I think it'll give us some good inspiration, yah?

Overall Digital Photographer of the Year 2007

Chris Sargent
(I viewed his gallery, there's one which caught my eye but I cant tell what the subject was doing at all. ) http://www.dphotographer.co.uk/show_image.php?imageID=13641&page=1

Wildlife Digital Photographer of the Year 2007

Paul Bratescu
Love this one.


Movement Digital Photographer of the Year 2007

Jennifer Tigley
Absolute WOAH-ness.


Black & White Digital Photographer of the Year 2007

Paul Anthony Wilson
Is a like.


Abstract Digital Photographer of the Year 2007

Kate Molloy
HEHEHEHE. This photo is tickling with endless possibilities. See a woman's slender body and legs?


Urban Digital Photographer of the Year 2007

Andrew Tobin
I LIKE I LIKE I LIKE! How come this carpark so empty one hah.

Read more at Digital Photographer of the Year Awards 2007

Grouch here, OVER AND OUT!

interview slots

EXCO 08/09
Interview timeslots

TUESDAY

Angeline Tan Li Jun
17:20

Chng Soon Siang
17:30

Goh Kuan Yee
17:40

Goh Xue Mi Shirleen
17:50

Hilmaniaty Bte Murtaza
18:00

WEDNESDAY

Ho Zheng Hui
16:30

Karishma Bhatnaga
16:40

Lam Kar Mun
16:50

Mumtaz d/o Mohamed Yusoff
17:10

Sie Xin Yi
17:20

Soh Huijuan Vanessa
17:30

Tan Yen Jun Elliot
17:40

To Zhi Wei Sharon
18:00

Victoria Joan Ong Shufen
18:10

Venue: Photography Room
Holding area: Atrium
Estimated timing for each interview is 10 minutes.

Note:

Please bring along the following for your interview:

3 Photos taken by you which you think it is good. You are required to explain the photo. Any forms of documents that you have done in the past that reflects your relevant skills is allowed in the interview. (All in soft copy pls…)

Do read up more on stuffs about camera. Technical knowledge will be tested (inclusive of how to use the camera.)

All the best to you people! ((:

Exco Application

Dear juniors, your EXCO has kindly come up with a sample of answers for your EXCO application form.

1. Position applying for: (Please tick one)
Ans: *brackets all* All of the above. I feel that I can multi task. (No doubts about my ability!)

2. How would you describe yourself?
Ans: - Wont steal food from fridge
- smart
- won't say 'your mother'
- less irritating than Quentin
- more QTPL than Qiqi
- won't break lens (at most only 77mm B+W filter)
- love mounting

3. Are you currently holding on to any leadership position? (House Comm, CG Rep, Subject Rep, REACH Rep etc...)
Ans: -SC
-House comm
- CG Chair
- REACH Rep/ Reach Comm
- Pre-U sem emcee
- All subject rep

4. Your Sec Sch CCA:
I-dont-wanna-lose club

5. Position held in sec sch CCA and contributions:
Ans: President, all available posts including cleanliness manager and toilet director and check temp of the sch surroundings

6. Why do you want to join the EXCO?
Ans: - I feel that I got every ability/ positive points that everyone has.
- I want to be friends with Ah Dell.

7. Why are you interested in applying for the position you have ticked above?
Ans: -Because I dont wanna lose

8. Do you have any relevant technical skills? Be specific.
Ans: -Camwhoring at a specific angle
- Use eyepower (what's that?)
- Jinbei and Abei are my best friends

And lastly, 9. How do you think you can improve the club's current positions?
-ended with some plentiful of angry scribbles and drawings-

Seriously.
If you dont feel like coming to help out in cutting/typing the photos for mugshots or you think that we are making use of you as free labour, please dont come.
I really dont understand whats so diffcult about coming for ONE pathetic hour to cut photos and start complaining. The whole EXCO has to stay back EVERYDAY TILL 8PM to do all our assigned tasks. Fine you can say cause we are in the exco. But as a member i think it is not very diffcult to stay back a while after school DURING YOUR CCA TIME to cut photos, something the WHOLE club is involved in. We settle the printing, the cutter, the arrangement of classes, the folders to put the photos, the labels, the namelist and all you have to do is cut.
Now tell me why do some of you still have to complain.

To the majority of the enthu J1s and J2s, thanks for staying back and helping to cut/type the photos especially angeline, elliot, zheng hui, shirleen, vanessa and all those who i cant rmbr who you are cause im too busy for staying back almost everyday to help cut photos! thanks! 

(Light painting by Suerya, Design+idea by QUENTIN!)

INTERJC08
BEYOND POSSIBILITIES



7-11th April - SAJC
14-18th April - VJC
21-25th April - TPJC
28th April - 2nd May : MJC!!!

Shifting the exhibits were fun but tiring... and we realise that our club simply just ROCKS! heh!

Chewrens,

WE ARE FAMOUS... LOL

Today some Cheena mediacorp people came to interview the chinese dept and Mr Gan Beng Soon brought them around to tour the school and I happened to pass by when they were admiring our Perth Gallery. i overheard Mr Gan saying to the reporter, "Wo men de she ying hen YOU MING de" i was like ????? YOU MING? FAMOUS???

Wa, we're famous? not bad nei... hahaha

Night sky

I kinda remembered two or three weeks ago when I went back to look see the first JAE meeting and the kids were playing this game where they had to try to recognise what was what or where from the photos the organisers took... and I went "WAH, PHOTO OOF!!! *murmurs so close how to focus*" and Ms Koh slapped me on my arm and asked me to be nice saying, "They J1 only leh!!!!" Hehehehehe...

Some of us just love taking the moon, the stars, the sun... Well, I've tried all three and I havent had satisfactory results YET. (I cant believe some people buy mirror lenses just to capture the moon!)

In the mean time, some pictures to share-
(Clicking on the photos to view the larger version is recommended.)



Can actually see the sunrise in this one.

Don't know about you, but this photo reminds me of the time after Adam and Eve got chased out of the garden of Eden. Just lacks two angels guarding with a sword. Ha ha.



According to Kingston, he says there are tripods that can actually rotate at the same angular velocity as the earth if you want to capture a still image of the stars alone. Cool.

Guessed what this is already? Yeah- Northern Lights. That's the thing where the mother bear went to in the movie Brother Bear.



Alrighty, that's all from me today-

History of Photography

I remember seeing the very first photo taken in human history in a book about history of photography some two years back and it had left me a deep impression. Taken in the early 19th century (almost two hundred years ago), it actually amazes me how photography have existed since so long ago- images taken on a pewter plate.



Read more about History of Photography over at National Geographic's website.

National Geographic website and magazines are a good source of photos and an excellent read. Hahaha I've an archive of Nat Geo mags from as early as 1980!

Bookmark this page for future readings- National Geographic Photography

5D and BMW

Haiz... after using the 5D for a while, reverting back to 400D is like driving BMW then go back drive hyundai -.-

I so need a 5D

Hey guys, remember we went for a shootout to Punggol beach late last year?
Just sharing some Punggol photos I saw on Clubsnap, good place to go to especially when looking for 2nd hand items.

tan131 in To Puggol, With Love

tan131 in To Puggol, With Love

eikin in Moonrise from blk 160A

eikin in Dusk at Punggol Beach

Nicky in Punggol Beach in Winter

Okay very tired already, but such a pity I cant find the thread I saw last year, those shots were fantastic; best of all that I've seen. Singapore is a pretty place, if you look hard enough.

reminder

Another reminder...

i got three things, 1st thing:

SUMMISSION OF INTERJC 08 Exhibition entries
EXTENDED last last last last last ever deadline: 26th March, Wednesday

EMAIL your photos to: meridian.ps@gmail.com 
Only 12 entries would be selected and be printed out

2nd thing:
ALL JC2s
Please hand over a copy of your timetable for term2 BY 26MAR WEDNESDAY
Mugshot training on 26th mar wed.

3rd thing:
SYPA photo submission. All to submit their SYPA photos (6 of them) to us by 14th April to the photog room and hand in $25 as printing+mounting cost. 


and to all j1s, hope you've brought your CF cards n card reader. if not.....

have a great long weekend
QUENT

 

YO YO YO! I'm back to update about this photo competition I just saw in the latest Asian Geographic magazine issue-

ASIA WITHOUT BORDERS- photography competition 2008

The four categories:

The Land
Humanity
Wild Places
Man's Imprint

Grand prize: 1 Canon EOS 5D and 1 ExOfficio Photographer Jacket
1st Prize (from each category): 1 Canon EOS 5D
2nd prize (from each category): 1 Camelbak Cross 25 Hydration Backpack

For more details and terms & conditions, visit http://asiangeo.com/contest_awb.html

GO GO GO!!!

The weather this two days are sooooo sunny! Too bad I'm cooped up in that little corner of mine doing stupid reports. I should get a pay rise.

And too bad we didnt choose today to go out to shoot for Pre U sem!

Oh well.

I took this from my kitchen window during dinner. My mom asked me to bring in my socks as we were going out, and when I saw the sunlight, I quickly ran out to grab my camera, click here click there. Clickalicious.

A Peacock's Tale

REMINDER: Submission for this competition ends 16th March 2008!

Send your entries to apeacockstale@gmail.com

Include your particulars

• Photographer’s Name
  
• NRIC/Passport Number
  
• Date of Birth
  
• Address
  
• Contact Number (s)
  
• Email Address
  
• Title of Entry
  
• 100 word caption
  

Meanwhile, do study hard for MBT.
If you think you gonna fail.... think again!

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All the best for March Block Test y'all~
Study hard.
Adam says: "Dont phail... if you phail... you phail."
Try not to phail, kies? ^^

I forgot to mention that on the day (Monday) we met Mr Andrew Tan at Cathay I noticed a very familiar looking photo hung in the Cathay Photo's display window... It was a red car parked at the double yellow line lane and it took me a few seconds to realise I've seen it either in VJC photog noticeboard or our own interjc or the RJC inter JC competition... But the name definitely rings a bell- Sng Kia Jit from VJC. The photo won first prize in a Colours competition. The photo wasnt anything interesting but it fit into the theme of colours for the vibrancy, and I bet Chay Teng's vase can fight his photo. Lol.

It's time to start joining competitions out there, I know everyone can do it and win something and so MJC Photog proud. I'm proud of all you photog kids, so go get'm!

P.S. I'll try to post up any suitable competitions on going here for your information as and when possible.

Today Mr T, G and i went to take some outdoor shots around singapore cos Ms Lai got GRAND plans for Pre U Sem... Global City Home For All... Ooohhhh... *wave hands in the air*

We met at 0830 to discuss the possible places to go and some ideas... wa.... say until like pattern liao liao... want shoot plane flying past from underneath la, shoot lao uncles with many many bird cages in tiong bahru la, shoot city people walking left right right left using slow shutter speed la, shoot MRT people enter exit with slow shutter speed so the people inside r clear la, shoot singapore flyer with sunset in the backdrop la... we wanted to "shoot what other people never think of or shoot before one"...

but Ti Aw Aw (sky dark dark) -.- sian jit bua...

First stop, we went to Canopy Walk at Kent Ridge Park. it was a v nice leisurely walk but not nice to shoot cos it was misty misty everywhere and there was hardly anyone so we had to pose for each other. figured that 3 choose 2 = 3 combinations. hahaha... then Mr T wanted to shoot this couple but they were like gui gui sui sui refused to let him shoot so he gave up... i figured they probably are having an affair and went there for rendezvous la! hahaha! then we climbed up to see the port but again, mong mong everywhere.... sians. i managed to convince one family to let me shoot them but they walked so fast ALL blur la... my pics are CMI...

Then went tiong bahru to shoot lao uncles n their bird cages... the place closed liao... found a bird shop opp queensway SC, asked uncle n he said, "jin tian xia yu tong tong shou qi lai le!" (today rain everyone keep their cages le) -.- diao had this fried fish for lunch... supposed to be pomfret but felt like rock fish... G said i "gen yu da jia" (fight w fish)! LOL then Mr T got lost there and we turned here turned there round n round like in a labyrinth, almost couldn't come out! hahaha

Since it was drizzling, we decided to do indoor shoots so went to changi airport (i also don't know why...) T3 and on the day when we want many many people (u know how irritating it is when we go out on weekends n feel the whole singapore went out to play?), everyone super not cooperative today all stay at home donno do wat! not a single soul! -.- take sky train go T2, not a single ghost. take back to T3... -.- wasted trip man.

So we thought ok ok, go City Hall MRT there sure got many people can do the slow shutter speed thingy... but... again... WHERE IS EVERYONE?????? went to shoot INSIDE MRT station kena chased by station control aunty who MADE me delete my pics... sheesh.... she also told Mr T but he acted blur quickly chao off! jiang hai shi lao de la! haha

Climbed to rooftop of esplanade hoping to shoot something nice but then there is this giant eyesore-of-a-crane right smack in the middle... -.- then started drizzling again.... Mr T suggested going to shoot Merlion i was like -.- bu hui ba! so cliche.... *slap forehead* but heck la... let's walk there n as we got down to ground floor from rooftop, it stopped drizzling -.- Mr T scolded the sky in his malaysian accent! hahaha so funny....

we decided heck la, lousy weather.... go gai gai la so went cathay photo, met Mr Andrew Tan there n G n I were like so excited watching people spend money to buy things cos we're broke ma! haha.... we declared ourselves Mr T's god daughters although i am also G's godma... G will be called "ben dan" and i am "xiang ji"! hahaha.... also named Mr T n my tripod... his will be Anakin, mine Luke... ah ha ha ha!

i can count with ONE hand the number of shots that can "see people".... -.-

Huan dao zhui zhui zhui

Took a shot by ~macingrouch on deviantART

Today the qing tian pi li, grandmaster of photography- Mr Tee, Ms Koh and I went out to shoot around Singapore for pre-u sem with the theme Singapore- Global City something something for All. Before we set out this morning we were listing out the possible places to shoot, and WAHHHH there are endless possible places to shoot...

Too bad tian bu zuo mei leh...
Sky not nice. *Sings Ti orh orh*
And today is a monday! Want shoot people also difficult siaa... Go MRT station outside shoot also kena chase. Sad case.
Changi Airport BO LANG!!!
Whole day rain rain rain rain, cloudy cloudy sky grey grey one, want go climb longkang shoot Singapore flyer also cannot! KNS...

In the end we went to shoot the cliched MERLION *peng, I cant believe it*, esplanade and whatsoever... The three of us had to be models for our own photographs... -.-

Today was super unproductive... I shot a grandtotal of ONE photo. ONE!! Can you believe it...? *slap forehead* It's the above posted photo la... Which I thought was quite nicely composed and edited.

Hehehehe then we went walk around Cathay and Camera Workshop, see a SLIK carbon tripod that I like neh, got padding and it's super light... Then I saw the Gitzo, WAHHHH I liked it even more... Considering I lugged qing tian pi li's manfrotto that was even heavier than the club's green tripod while the both of them happily used their Gitzos... T_T

Met Mr Andrew Tan at Cathay and Ms Koh was trying to influence him to get a B+W UV filter. *tiiongggg....* OH and sigma 50mm f2.8 macro SGD400 plus, 15-30mm dunno 600 plus or 900 plus la, cant remember liao... Hehehehehe.... And Mr Tee say I can be his god daughter leh! I am now qing tian pi li, grandmaster of photographer's god daughter liao, and Ms Koh is my gan ma... =P

This two god parents bery good de, one can borrow his camera, one know where to eat and cook the good stuff... *most blessed person on earth*
After spending one whole day with Mr Tee, I'm starting to catch his lian bang chinese... Ji gou li hai yi xia leh!

Elections

With a blink of the eye, it's March already! Golly... Time really waits for no man... (but I woman leh. hey, WAIT!!!!) Just when you think you just had your first meeting with the club, then POOOF! you're running for EXCO already.

The mention of EXCO elections just makes me excited. Hehehehe...
As I was telling Cherish today- the job of a senior is very simple =P
Only need to do a few things:
1. Bully your junior
2. Tekan your junior
3. Think as many ways to tekan your junior as possible.

But lucky kids, you all dont have seniors who chase you down to pinch...
Or call you kuching...

Oh well, although I'm not part of the club anymore, I still find the elections highly interesting. Mainly because the juniors have such brilliant ideas, and their statements are sometimes highly entertaining. For me, at least.

And yes, I asked Kingston whether he wants to form a Photography Club Alumni today. He asked me to set one up. (sighs, people say 'once a saikang warrior, always a saikang warrior'.) He said once boys cut their hair in NS will become stupid. Shave already, 60% intelligence gone, wear helmet 40% gone. By then, become idiot already. THEN HE STILL WANT BE PRESIDENT! -.-|||

I was at Cathay Photos today so i for fun asked the uncle,

me: "How much is the 50mm f/1.2L?"
uncle: the best price i can give you is $2..
me: *WA!!! start w 2 nei!!!! good ah! i can afford!!!*
uncle: $2XXX
me: -__________-||| *4 digit... sheesh* oh er... how about the f/1.4?
uncle: $5XX
me: ooohhh... k thanks

$5XX -.- haiz... so poor, cannot afford lens... continue bu yao lian use club lens ba...

then i checked out the tripods. saw two that i find not bad...Manfrotto 190MF4 ($585) and Manfrotto 190MF3 ($555) include ball head. not bad hor? they have the gitzo one that looks like the gitzo traveler titanium nei! *drool* except it's carbon fibre... but so ex, twice the price of the manfrotto ones... but half the weight la...

go back use my lousy $35 olympus one first -.-

Hi y'all Photog peeps out there!
Just want to say a BIG HELLO to all the new photog kids this year! (If there are actually any readers out there.... errr.... ya.)

It may seem cool that there is a horde of photographers at every event (when I say every, I mean EVERY. No kidding hor.) and it seems like an easy task... Afterall, we're "just taking photos". NO IT'S NOT COOL!...

Actually it is lar.
You're the fortunate 3% of the school population, hand picked by our dear Papa Cheng, to have the chance to use tok kongly big cameras. (tok kong=super)

Some people say it's cool to see things differently through a camera lens. NO IT SHOULDNT BE SO!...

Actually it's so...
Photography has never ending possibilities. What determines a good photo has many dimensions to it; lighting, contrast, colours, so on and so forth. Sometimes undesirable dirt can seem desirable. Sometimes undesirable lens abbreviation can seem desirable, and even cool. (Looking at JoHo's pictures is sufficient to make me drool...) But what's the most important is composition. If your composition sucks, so sorry... The photo is ruined. And another thing about photography is that it has to tell a story. (Like what I used to tell the J2s) You wont want to shoot a photo with many many things inside, but no focus and the person looking at it has got totally no idea what you want to shoot. That is not good.

No good at all.

And yes, dont break anything that belongs to the club. The exco will wring you dry to pay for the stuff. I mean it. Quentin bites.

So remember children, the next time when you shoot for an event, look out for individual expressions (use a telephoto lens if you have to) that tells a story about the event happening. Dont kamikaze anyhow shoot 1GB of photos back, you'll feel about one-tenth of Shan Shan's pain.

Play with light. Fire away, children!

(P.S. In case you didnt know, I'm the girl in pink today.)

This evening we had to shoot Parents' Orientation Evening and Cherish was the MC ^^ we didn't chee howe shang shen ^^ Cherish was v cute... she walked v v carefully in her heels like she was walking on ice... hahaha..

anyway, besides shooting parents (yawn...!), here's what we did...

play with fish eye lens ^^


Does this place look familiar? Quentin's idea...


Eat Ah!


Drink Ah!


Eye mango pudding... it's quite nice... so we koped like don't know how many tubs to put in club room fridge =D i was in charge of koping the spoons and my colleagues were like ???? why do u need so many spoons??? LOL


Shoot something more interesting than parents... LOL


Such as flame of warmer hahaha...


Do light graffiti ^^ haha sorry i don't have PS at home... i also don't know how to burn so u can still see me, my legs n prob my birkies! LOL


So fun ^^ we left v late at 10pm but *pats chest* heng ah! this time didn't have to climb gate!!! =P