Recent Posts Tagged With 'Sydney'

• Oran Park Raceway Part 2

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 06:33 in action, Sydney

  Found a few more cool ones from the Oran Park set. I tried to get a very dramatic effect with the one above. It didn't turn out as I wanted but I still quite like it. I couldn't really get the vignette right and I couldn't really give it a sense of ...

• Oran Park Raceway

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 00:47 in action, Sydney

  My friend invited me to go down to Oran Park Raceway the other day. I haven't been down to a track before so I was quite intrigued by all that sound and  all that technical talk. Because Oran Park Raceway is going to be demolished for housing d...

• "In And Around The House" - Pleasant Surprise

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 02:46 in Sydney, in and around the house, sky

  What a pleasant surprise. I was bored so I picked up my camera to take some photos of the clouds and the sun on my porch, just like the ugly photo above. I thought that I could add it into that long forgotten "In and Around the House" challenge. But ...

• Mid-Autumn Festival

  Posted on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 at 02:52 in Sydney, night, in and around the house

  It is the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節) today! It's that time of the year when Chinese people stuff themselves with mooncakes, burn lanterns and candle wax and take a few short glances at the full moon. My sister set up a few lanterns in the backya...

• Self-Portrait With Sunnies

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 13:01 in Sydney, studio, portrait, strobist

  Hrmm... Another set of self-portraits. I hope that people won't think I'm self-obsessed or something. It's just that it's quite hard to find a model who would sit there and experiment with random lighting ideas that I come up with at 3am in the morni...

• Starry Night

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 08:59 in Sydney, urban, night, special, bokeh

  Just in time! So why stars? Because it is my birthday! And not just simply a birthday (because i normally don't make a huge fuss about my birthdays), but it is my star birthday! A star birthday occurs when the day of your birthday is the same as your...

• Star

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 13:00 in Sydney, special

  Why a star? It's not a very nice star I've got to admit. But you will know why soon!©2009 Kevin Leung [ad:hoc visuals] ~ All rights reserved. ...

• Lonesome Old Town

  Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 01:49 in Sydney, urban, night

  I remember I took this on a tripod but it was so slanted I had to rotate it clockwise 4 degrees to get it straight. This resulted in the need to crop lots of the lower part of the photo, which I'd rather keep. I don't think I am patient enough to use...

• Monstrous Oyster

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 09:00 in iphone, Sydney

  I ate a huge oyster tonight. I guess the meat wasn't that big, but that shell was gianormous. I've included a New Zealand mussel shell and a typical Chinese restaurant tea cup in the shot for size comparison. It didn't taste that nice though.©2009 K...

• Flagpoles

  Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 10:31 in black and white, Sydney, night

  A photo I took a few months ago. I really liked it back then when I took it and was going to post it straight away. But somehow I forgot about it until now. Better late than never!I originally intended this to be in colour, but the black and white ma...

• At The Bar

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 13:16 in Sydney, night

  ©2009 Kevin Leung [ad:hoc visuals] ~ All rights reserved. ...

• Rendez-Vu

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 12:44 in Sydney, bokeh

  I got you in my heart, I got you in my headYour magic, it surrounds meLet's make a rendezvousOriginally it was some sparklers on a birthday cake at a party I went to. I decided to add something to it, so I did a separate photo where I painted light w...

• iPhonesampler

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 10:06 in iphone, Sydney

  Just downloaded this iPhone app called Quadcamera that imitates the Actionsampler, Supersampler and Oktomat. There's built in Lomo-like effects and you can also adjust the delay between each shot. Pretty cool. The shots above were done in Bondi Junct...

• St. Mary's Cathedral

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 07:21 in black and white, iphone, Sydney

  Didn't realised I JUST missed the tip of the cathedral...©2009 Kevin Leung [ad:hoc visuals] ~ All rights reserved. ...

• Pathway To The Light

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 08:55 in iphone, Sydney

  This was actually a ceiling.I am still trying to get the gist of getting great shots with the iPhone and processing them properly. I think I am always overdoing the effects because it's just too easy. This one is definitely over-saturated and too con...

• Vibrating Strings

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 01:46 in music, Sydney, studio, strobist

  How do you light a subject in this way AND show motion blur at the same time? It is impossible (well, I think it is anyway with my lack of lighting gear). So this photo was actually 8 images combined together to mimic the movements of the strings.I c...

• Slowhand

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 20:41 in music, black and white, Sydney, studio, strobist

  Blurry hand. I think this blur makes the photo look old.In focus hand. The in-focus hand might be too dominating over the shadows.Just the shadow. This one is kinda boring.I'm not sure how I can get harder shadows. They are kind of blurry with soft e...

• Flowers In Vodka

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 22:06 in Nature, Sydney, flower

  This is not my photo. As I mentioned in a previous post, while organising my very messy external hard-drive, I found a flower photo which I think beats any flower shots I've done to date. The photographer of this photo rarely takes photos as well. It...

• A Man And His Guitar

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 23:23 in Sydney, studio, strobist

  Here in the photo could be a failed musician, someone who just lost his job or someone who's girlfriend ran away. Or he could just be deep in thought. Whatever your interpretation.Did this to experiment with lighting. I would say the photo would've b...

• First Shots From iPhone

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 03:44 in iphone, Sydney

  (it's funny reading back the stuff you wrote on scrap/scribbling paper...)The iPhone camera isn't bad at all. And the minimum focusing distance is quite small as well. It can kinda do semi-macro shots. Here's two shots (and the only two I've taken so...

• Soil, Soil

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 01:41 in black and white, Sydney

  In creeps the morningAnd another day's lostI'm constantly checkingAnd I'll reply fastI feel like a foolSo I'm going to stop troubling youBuried in the parkA letter to send to youHope that you'll hear meKnow that I wrote to youAll you need to save meI...

• Entertainers

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 01:42 in Sydney, urban

  The painter.The waiting cowboy.The guitarist and the out-performed guitarist.The clown. . . ..  ..  ...  .  ... ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   .  ..   .. .. ...  ... ..  ..    . ...  .. .. .    ....  . ..    . ..   .  ..  ... .. .... ....

• Reverie

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 01:44 in Sydney, urban, night, Deep thoughts, skyline, bokeh

  I'm sure you can identify these blurry landmarks. These photos reminds me of those other times I took similar photos. Well really, these were inspired by those times. . . ..   .  ... .... .  .. .... ..  . . ...  .  .. ...  ....    ... ..  ...

• Sydney Light Show 2009

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 07:43 in Sydney, urban, silhouette

  Finally bothered to post some photos from the Sydney Light Show, if anyone still remembers it. I'll post some more soon....

• Effects Pedal

  Posted on Sunday July 12th, 2009 at 11:38 in Sydney, Deep thoughts

  Another old photo. This one was taken nearly a year ago. It's a preamp-in tube amplifier emulator for guitars. Apparently, this model is one of the best for its price range and it has a cult following too. Not that I am into guitar gear, but I think ...

• R8...?

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 05:52 in Sydney, Deep thoughts

  Took this one month and ten days ago with my friend's iPhone. I was quite stoked at first, but things ended horribly wrong. I wish things had been different.But .  .  . ... ... .. .... .. ...   .  ... ... .   ..  ... .. .  . ... ..  ..  . ....

• Suckers For Consumerism

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 05:16 in Sydney, urban

• Harsh Times

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 08:40 in Sydney, urban

• Intersection

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 06:54 in Sydney, urban, night

• "Mysterious Project"

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 11:36 in Sydney, studio, hong kong, special, Deep thoughts, strobist

  Haven't updated in what seems like months, I wonder if anyone still drops by. Let me know if you still do =/This is the result of that "mysterious" project I was doing for the past week. I am not sure if it is something original or not as I haven't b...