Aug 2, 2005 "All art forms manipulate reality in order to reveal truths not apparent to the uncritical eye. Scientific, news, artistic and documentary photography all use the archetype of beauty as a connection to truth."
[Truth in photography: Perception, Myth and Reality in Postmodern World; By Leslie Mullen; December 1998] Posted by yuwono on Apr 19, '08 11:47 PM for everyone |  | We were wandering aimlessly (as usual) with Wellington that day (5-April-08), and found a pub near boat quay that apparently caught on fire...
A small fire by the way, it seems from 2nd floor.. and the fire brigade were able to put off the fire in the short time.
ERA100 on Hexar with Skopar 35mm f/2.5.
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Posted by yuwono on Mar 3, '08 9:44 AM for everyone | | Who don't know this famous catch phrase of James Bond?
But, you might never know that actually some scientists have investigated the difference between a martini shaken and a martini stirred.
Study said, the preparation of a martini has an influence on their antioxidant capacity. The shaken gin martinis were able to break down hydrogen peroxide and leave only 0.072% of the peroxide behind, versus the stirred gin martini which left behind 0.157% of the peroxide. [taken from Wikipedia]
But this album is not about this stupid Martini preparation. I'm just wondering if I applied enough "shake" to my developer tank. These photos are suppose to be a push development of EI3200 from native ISO400 of Tri-X film. But it turned out "under-develop", lacking shadow detail... Hope, I can get some input from you, guys to improve this.
Developed using D76 1:1 for 16 minutes @ 20degC
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Posted by yuwono on Feb 10, '08 9:44 AM for everyone | | I was looking forward for this particular roll of film, because it has two thing:
(1) My camera is just recently repaired. This is my first film after it had RF mis-alignment problem. I have done some length measurement test, make sure that what range-finder see is tally with the distance marking on the lens. But until I check the real result on photo, I will never sure.
(2) I get use to 40mm focal length. Then, often I complain the 50mm as framing too tight. So, I wish for 35mm. The news for high speed pancake from Voigtlander immediately attracted me. But until I have enough coin in my piggy bank, I only can dream. Luckily, Igor lend me his Color-Skopar 35mm F2.5. I have tried some exposures in another film previously, but I want to get feel on this focal length for the second roll.
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Posted by yuwono on Feb 9, '08 3:45 AM for everyone | | From Raffles Place to China Town
And Little India to Kampung Glam...
it's simply random shots...
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Posted by yuwono on Feb 3, '08 3:16 AM for everyone | | St Andrew's Cathedral is the country's largest cathedral. It is located near City Hall MRT Interchange, within the Central Area in Singapore's central business district.
Recently, the new extension has been built, with modern architecture, really contrast with its original 13th century architecture.
I took some snap shots while waiting Wellington to arrive at that day.
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Posted by yuwono on Feb 1, '08 12:47 PM for everyone | | Last series of last year Jakarta's trip.
This market is center of gold and jewelry stores. We went there to buy the first earing for my new born daughter. Although, until now we still have not done an ear piercing for her. We are not sure where and when should we do that.
As traditional as it look, but inside, "Pasar Cikini" has array of more than 30 air conditioned stores which accept cash and credit card payment. And yet, you are still able to find fruit and drink stall outside. It was a busy day for the market despite the soaring of gold price recently.
[Beside Cikini, some photo are from Kelapa Gading, and Pasar Sunan Giri, Jakarta]
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Posted by yuwono on Jan 13, '08 2:28 AM for everyone | | Continuation of previous entry. 3 first frame are from Pasar Sunan Giri. And the rest were taken at Pasar Festival, durung e "battle of Harajuku" event, Bank Indonesia Museum, and Jakarta Kota train station. With billitone , Sisca JE , Diaz and other friend.
Taken with Konica Hexar RF, with M-Hexanon 50mm f/2, Trix 400 and ERA 100.
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Posted by yuwono on Jan 13, '08 2:10 AM for everyone | | From Bank Indonesia Museum to Jakarta Kota train station. That day Billitione took me to several places. Among them the train station is the most interesting site we visited. We snaped some picture, but mostly we just chit chat, and try some street food and drink there.
Taken with my newly discovered Konica Hexar RF with M-Hexanon 50mm f/2. I'm still not get use to this camera and focal length. 2 new rolls of B&W film were being "sucked up" by camera's auto rewind, so no film leader I can use to load the film. Only 1 more B&W film left. So, desperately I purchased this color Fuji Superia 200.
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Posted by yuwono on Jan 8, '08 10:25 AM for everyone | | Yes, I visited this place again... It's near my office and near Sim Lim Square. Just need to swing by, if i want to do snapshot.
Just dig the Wikipedia. This humble place actually has long history in Singapore. Dated from Raffles era, British colonial, Japanese occupation, post-war era and till now. Once this place called "Robinson Petang", meaning evening Robinson, and some people call it "Thieves' Market", Sungei Road flea market now remains only the die-hard street peddlers, displaying their wares on canvas sheets along the empty roads in the area.
I kept this negative for long, i forgot that I shot @ ISO400, and developed @ ISO100 instead. This is few negatives that (i think) survive from disasters.
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Posted by yuwono on Dec 15, '07 4:59 AM for everyone | | Celebrating clear weather and blue sky... me and Wellington went to Singapore Turf Club, right after Singapore Marathon 2007 photo shooting .
I don't know exactly this horse racing work. From what I saw, the horse is displayed in Parade Ring, before race. There are couple of session of racing on 2 type of tracks: Sand and Turf. And the Jockey must be weighted right after the race.
Many big screen and TVs are installed in various place. It displays statistic and numbers... People bet. They went through analysis, calculation that from their expression, it's seemed more complicated than paper work in my office. One thing I know, they are all enjoy with what they are doing...
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Posted by yuwono on Dec 6, '07 8:28 AM for everyone | | The spirit is so high.....
No, I'm not talking about the participant of marathon.. but Wellington and me... We want to continue shooting on Sunday... anything... then, lucky we remembered this Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon .
We missed the start and champions entering finish line, but we happy we can capture the ambient of participant and supporter after the run. They all gathered at Padang celebrating their achievement...
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Posted by yuwono on Dec 4, '07 11:29 AM for everyone | | In short, Saturday 1st of Dec morning... like there's no tomorrow, we all gather in Singapore Botanical Garden.. and in the afternoon we went down to Haji Lane followed by Vivo city... in the evening we decided to pay visit Haji Lane one more time... to have dinner and shisha... :) It's a quiet experience....
Wellington, Leo, Kiki, Dhani, and Arifin...
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Posted by yuwono on Nov 10, '07 12:03 PM for everyone | | Alternative format is always amazing, specially panoramic. I have witnesses the great photo by Igor with his XPAN II or Wellington with his newly discovered, kodak V705. In clubsnap.com, I saw some members like weekh who use 16:9 format beautifully.
So, this morning when I passed by Cash Converter -- a second hand shop in Punggol Plaza -- I spotted a tiny pocket camera named Yashica Panorama-mini.
At first, I hope, it's real single exposure panoramic format, or at least some kind of movement lens. But when I open the back, I realize this is just a normal 135 camera with a masking mechanism to obtain panoramic format. It just crops the pictures.
And the shop attendance said, it cost only S$6. Wow... really cheap!!. I decided to give it a try and bought it.
I don't know how to operate the cam, nor i can find any manual in internet. I saw a little button just below the lens with mountain's sign. So I guess, I need to press this when i want to make pano shot.
After developing the film (ERA 100, D-76 1:1, 12 minutes), the result is ..... none of frames have panoramic format!!!
I'm not sure, is this because the cam is faulty or I didn't operate it correctly. The exposures are OK. Some non-uniformity here and there, typical a pocket camera, but generally is OK. Some vignette, soft, and low contrast.
Since, when i took picture, I used panoramic frame-line in camera for framing and composing, so I cropped back the picture around 40% on shortest side using Photoshop. :(
I guess I still need to wait, to get my dream real panoramic camera.
Below are some test shots taken around my block.
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Posted by yuwono on Nov 3, '07 11:18 AM for everyone I was lucky to spot this thread in Clubsnap, someone giving free lesson on black & white dark room printing! I'm always amazed by members in clubsnap, who quiet often they "give back" something to community.. Once I found member gave free film, or old camera, scanner, and just only last month member give his whole set of dark room equipment, enlarger, chemical and papers.. wow...  So, OK, get back to free printing lesson, or they call it "sharing session". This kind guy, named Ervine invited us to his studio, and taught us the basic printing technique until we confident enough to try ourself. In fact, through out the session, we actually did our own printing, he showed us how to setup and discuss how are we going to print our negatives.  At first, I expected, this was going to be a simple printing demo or something. But to my surprise, he allowed us to handle the enlarger from the first minutes. He showed us how to make test strips, and then how to justify them and came out with one straight print. Not only that, he continued to discuss with us on how to improve the print by burning and dodging. Wow! He helped us to make a timing strategy on how to implement those dodge& burn during printing, including the use of different grade of contrast filters. Only 2 guys came to this session on Friday night 2-Nov-07. Each of us gave $5 contribution which is nothing compared to cost of chemicals, papers, and his time! We printed at 6"x8" Illford papers from our 135 and 120 (6x6) negatives.  We took almost 6 hours in dark room, used up 20 sheets of paper to come out with 5 final prints. This is considered fast and efficient, according to him, since some "printing master" often took days to produce single high quality print. And of course, we can not turn ourself into print master only in one night, but at least this session has opened us to the world of B&W printing, and up to us, if later we want to refine and perfect our technique. It was fun and enjoyable experience. Hopefully someday I have my own simple dark room, or at least has access to one of rental darkroom here in Singapore. (***) Posted by yuwono on Oct 31, '07 11:17 AM for everyone | | My colleague was kind enough to take me to this place, in one fine weekend during my visit to Shanghai office. They "allowed" me to stay one night alone despite they worry since I speak no Chinese. Luckily, I met photographer from Taiwan who speak English fluently...
So Zhouzhuang is number one of Water city in China, that the brochure said. So, it's crowded with tourists, really hard to isolate scene. The sky was awful, made me miss Singapore's sky which is blue with nice and dramatic white cloud (ok... maybe sometimes...)
You may dig more info on Zhouzhuang here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhouzhuang
No no... I didn't use film... all shots were done digitally.
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Posted by yuwono on Oct 9, '07 1:25 PM for everyone | | Two ATM machines and hundred of people queuing... That's best describe what i saw in one fine afternoon while I'm waiting for end of fasting that day. People seems don't bother... They lined up and chit-chat.. They don't care if a kilometer away from here there's another machine available.. It's not the money that matter anymore... They want to spend the whole afternoon here with their best buddy...
With QL17 on TriX 400, D-76 1:1, 7 mins @ 24degC
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Posted by yuwono on Oct 8, '07 1:49 PM for everyone | | Mount Putuo (Simplified Chinese: 普陀山; pinyin: Pǔtúo Shān) is an island located to the south-east of Shanghai, in Zhoushan prefecture of Zhejiang province, China. It is famous in Chinese Buddhism, and is considered the bodhimanda of Avalokitesvara (Guan Yin), a revered Bodhisattva in many parts of East Asia. Mount Putuo is one of the four sacred mountains in Buddhism, the others being Mount Wutai, Mount Jiuhua, and Mount Emei (Bodhimandas for Manjushri, Ksitigarbha, and Samantabhadra, respectively).
The name Putuo derives from "Potalaka" the mountain residence of Guanyin in the Avatamsaka Sutra, as does the Potala Palace, the former residence of the Dalai Lamas.
[Text is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putuoshan ]
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Posted by yuwono on Oct 3, '07 12:55 PM for everyone | | Friday praying, during my recent trip to Shanghai... Nikon D50+12-24mm f/4
Pudong Mosque is situated near where Yuanshen Road and Shangcheng Road meet, and is also called "Pudong Islamic Church". In August 1935, Pudong Mosque was built in Fenshanwu, south of Wujiating, with the money raised by Imam Hong Changjin and the Huis of Pudong. And in 1954, it was extended with the money donated by Shanghai Mosque Council. In 1984, the government earmarked fund to renovate the church. Occupying an area of 1665 square meters, the mosque is a 3-story building of Arabic style. Religious geometrical shapes are used in the design of the building. A round dome with a diameter of 9 meters and a height of 25 meters from the ground has a symbol of crescent on its top with three round domes nearby echoing with it, formig a orderly arragement. The minaret on the south measures 40 meters high, kissing the sky. The building is decorated with the color of blue, giving off a strong flavor of Islamic culture. The Mosque has a capacity of several hundred people for worship. In 1985, at Lesser Bairam, religious activities were resumed. It is the only Mosque in Pudong New Area.
[Taken from http://www.pudong.gov.cn ]
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Posted by yuwono on Oct 2, '07 11:13 AM for everyone | |
I guess i have to keep doing it... whenever i get chance...
QL17 with ERA100, developed using stock D-76, 8 minutes @ 20degC
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Posted by yuwono on Sep 22, '07 10:04 AM for everyone | | Thank to Brian Web with his review on Shantou ERA100 that make this brand known to me. So, bought some rolls during my recent trip to Shanghai.
Few shot using R2A + Nokton 40mm f/1.4, and also on Leica Summicron 50mm f/2.0, borrowed from good fella Benjamin Leong for one of the shot (champagne bottle).
On D-76 7 minutes @ 22degC
So, what do you think of this film? To me, I even can not differentiate this to TriX 400... just slightly less contrast... wow...
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mak!
bukan main, apalagi poto2 yang buta warna...
salam kenal dan salam anget. |
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karna aku bukan orang fotografi, aku cuma bisa ngasih coment sebagai penikmat seni...
jadi menurutku.. foto-nya bagus-bagus...
heu..heu.. kapan-kapan mau donk di foto...
btw makasih atas kunjuangan-nya.
salam kenal
indrie
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foto-fotonya enak dilihat dan dinikmati :D
salam kenal mas yuwono |
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fotonya bagus2 :) BWnya keren banget salam kenal :) |
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