Minor updates from the Alumni

Hihi^^

First and foremost, congratulations to the new photog exco on making it so far..you might think it has been a rough ride.. but you have only gotten to the start line. Many trials and tribulations await you and I, on behalf of the Alumni wish you all the best in fulfilling your goals and make all of us proud.^^

Also! Congratulation to the outgoing exco on making it to the finishing line.. I know it has been a tough year for you guys.. many things have happened but I'm sure you all have emerged stronger as a result of your experiences. I hope you all have found your exco experience fulfilling. I think being in exco isn't so much about what you have achieved, but more of how you have discovered yourself as a person. How you work and how others work; your own weaknesses and other's weaknesses and how to cover up for each other and improving synergy. These lessons you have learnt will come in useful in the future when you start climbing the ranks of the corporate ladder and will give you an advantage when compared to others who are still stumbling over the mistakes you have made in the past. As for your photography, I hope you all will continue to shoot and improve your skills. There is a whole world out there waiting to be shot.^^ To Shruthi: You seem to be rather unhappy with me and I don't know why. Do let me know because there is no point in letting things hang midair :)

To all 09/10 members, you are all invited to join the Alumni, however no one is forcing you to join though^^. However, if you felt that through your seniors, photography has made a difference in your life, then perhaps you should join the Alumni and make the same change in your junior's life^^. In case you all didn't already know, all official correspondence from the Alumni exco will be via the blog. So we hope you will continue visiting the blog daily and keep the page counts high and make dear Quentin one happy webmaster^^.

Talking about Alumni, in case you still don't know, the alumni will be holding an exhibition during College day and the theme this year will be "Editing Required". Entry submission will open in June and is open to ALL members and Alumni and editing is required...:P E-lesson will be up as soon as our dear VP is done with his exams and we look forward to your outstanding entries^^.

I know some of you believe Lomography's method is in itself an sacred art and should not be fouled by the vile fingerprints known as digital editing and want to prove your point. I would sincerely like support you in your honorable quest to expound your ideals and extend my resources to you by giving out free expired 35mm a.k.a 135 format slide film and offering free 120/135 format film scanning. Contact me if you are interested and expired slide film is on a while stock last basis. 1 roll per person so no need for cat fights in front of my front door:P..^^. Ohh, in any case, free film scanning will be available all year round to all members and Alumni for non-commercial purposes. Lomo camera not included.

To those of you looking to borrow a lomo camera, you can try asking Mr T via PPC. Though I wonder if he will loan out his precious action sampler..hehe.. or you can try asking Ms Koh to lend you her Seagull.. it has a foggy communistic lens; a prerequsite for lomography:P.

Some of you might be curious as to why am I offering this service for free... I believe that if you seriously want to improve your photography skills, film photography is an option that can further improve your skills as it will ground, grind and mince you in your photography fundamentals and literally force you to think before you shoot. All the better photographers in our club are testaments to my theory; Eunice, Junsen, Xing Quan, Chin Chye and perhaps a few more that I have missed out... However, I must admit that film photography is becoming more and more expensive as the years goes by.. With popularity of digital photography, film has scaled down, and with the lack of economies of scales, prices have been rising steadily. However, this still doesn't change the fact that film photography can improve your skills greatly. I'll do a simple breakdown of the costs for you: Negative film costs $3-$6 depending on the brand and type, slide film costs anywhere from $8-$15. Developement will set you back another $6 and no point just looking at that tiny frame of yours. To get your image from film to screen, you need to scan the film and that costs easily $15 if you go to a lab to do it. All together, it will cost you anywhere between $24-$36 per roll and each roll has only 36 frames. That's almost $1 per shot! So by eliminating the scanning cost, you can save up to 62.5% of the costs!! So with this, I hope more of you will be more adventurous and dare to enter the realm of film photography.

Anyways, that is all I have to say for now..^^