Winter DreamZ

Tried my hand at DI again. This time on a coloured photo instead of converting to a pop art feel.
Wondering if it is good.

The Little Mac Shop

Was at home while Aver went down to help "The Little Mac Shop" do up their web site.
Wanted to be by her side to encourage her....... want to help her all I can so I did this in Photoshop....... Photoshop 7......arggghhhh.... badly need an upgrade.
Aver is upgrading to a Mac.... will follow suit soon once I get some assignments in.

Mac is like a Designer's wet dream....... The smooth and sexy contours.......makes you wanna caress her the whole day long...... the bold and loud colours scream personality.... and she hides secrets darn well....you just have to make sure you put your hand near her to catch what she ejects out thou. Not to mention that she is so stunning in white......he he......

Long time since I touched designing...... think I did rather ok for my first attempt in 2 years?
Think Aver can use this either for the company website's background , the namecard or maybe just wallpaper for the computer's in the office.lolx.

Loving Ya!

I believe!!!

When bad things happen to you too often, you tend to be a disbeliver when good things happens.
For the longest period of time, nobody came up to me to aknowledge my talents and abilities.
For the longest period, people have been making use of me and yet being unrealistic critical about it.
Let's face it, they cannot even draw a decent egg and they can say what I draw looks bad.........
Oh Please!!! Look at the mirror before you comment!
I can draw a Van Gogh or a Da Vinci, they cannot even draw a decent square without using a ruler,

Recent Events have changed alot of my perspectives!
I took up photography on a serious basis and started experimenting ........
drawing reference from the great painters instead of thinking from the viewpoint of a guy with a camera.
I know this is controversial but too many people out there just join in organised shoots and get conveyer belt results.
What is wrong with these people? Don't they have their own artistic directions and style?
Some people's minds are just so closed and unreceptive to new ideas.
They just flip their FHM, Maxim or some Jap Idol magazine and start copying what they see.
End result, too many photos that look the same..... BORING!!!
Ha ha, and they can still criticise me and Aver cos we have weird angles and the shoot being over or under exposed.......
All that was done intentionally!!!
They just cannot accept someone who has the BALLS to be different!

I have been running around with my namecards these days and selling my services.
Have been getting very positive responses too.
In the past, when Aver said I have super good angles...... I did not really believe her.......
Thought she is saying that cos she is my girlfren n just wanna make me feel good about myself.
I just like to experiment and do things differently..... something that comes naturally to me.......
so it did not feel different to me.
Meeting up with the people who are your potential customers is an interesting experience!
And they said the same thing as Aver: I LOVE YOUR ANGLES!!!!
Okie okie...... I am convinced now........
Even a few friends I lost contact with sort of looked thru my portfolio and even showed their friends and yup....same results.... Super with angles!!!

Okie , Okie.... I believe now..... I have very creative angles and an unorthodox shooting style!!!
Now to move on with the show.....to show the world that JERI CAN BE THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHER IN THE WORLD!!!

Asus G2 for Sale!

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Specs:
Processor:
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ChipsetMemory: 2048MB DDR2 667 (2x 1024mb)
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The Devil who stole my heart!!!

First serious attempt at playing with photoshop after a long layoff..... absolutely did the unimagainable by making the picture look so different from what it was.... luckily I am the photographer and the model is my gal. End results look so pop artish n so not me..... ha ha.... but than again I am someone who pushes the limit. The normal stuff anyone can do....it is only when you try to be different do people take notice. Who will remember the names of the guys who tried to imitate the Mona Lisa? It is a time to be bold and outrageous as that is the real me...the real deal!

Preshoot with Tung Tong and Aver

The above picture is credited toTung Tong: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tungtong/
For those readers out there who do not know know me that well........
I am a photographer who has fallen in love with my favourite subject matter.....
my dear model -Aver who is now my girlfriend......
Was somehow stuck at a certain level in my photography and was wondering how I could manage to find a break thru.......
That was when we meet Tung Tong........
He has God Like DI skills!!!! Totally! No kidding.... just see the pic above for evidence!
And he can still say he is not good at computers!
And his eye for the world is so different!!! Check out his website and you will see why!!!

Inspires me to do my own DI....cannot be lazy anymore...... must work hard.......
Just as Bruce Lee had said years ago: If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Thus my breakthru is one that comes in the form of making my mind like water...... continue to be inspired by those around me....... do not be restricted by perception....always searching for a breakthru..... n off course....working very hard!!!!

Really gotta thank Tung Tong for this! Skills and techniques can be taught but the most powerful way to impact someone is to change their mind......
Thanks , Dude!

The Price for Talent

How does one measure talent? Definitely not with a measuring tape or cup.......
How does one honor talent? Not by monetary rewards but the recognition for the hard work helps.
Talent is not something you can learn from a textbook or from selfhelp tape.
It has to be inborn and when time allows and the surrounding is willing......
does one grow to greatness.....
Like diamonds in the rough.......
that was formed from the extreme conditions of hot molten lava.
extracted to be cut and polished to perfection ,
so its greatness and shine will last for eternity.
A diamond is priceless...... so is talent!

Dr Secret

Click to be suprised!!!

Frustrations

It's raining again..... another dark and gloomy day......

The world just do not have a hi tolerance for creative people.
It is growing increasing frustrating to wake up everyday to constant nagging from the people around you. They think you are not doing enough and keep expecting more from you.

Study harder..... get better grades...... get a girlfriend...... find a good job........ get married.......

The social norms are getting more and more disturbing. Success is measured by the size of the car you drive,how beautiful your gal is or the number of zeroes in the bank account etc etc. People who throw caution to the wind and try to pursue their artistic inclinations are often frown upon. The system works in such a way whereby there is a common ideal way to live and anything different will render one and outcast.

Expectations only go up and never goes down...... it is like a helium filled balloon....... you are only expected to float upwards and nothing more.

I don't think I do well as a surbodinate. Never been a good listener and it seriously cramps my style. I have my own way of doing things and people hate me for that. I get easily irritated and unable to perform my best when I have to supress my creativity .

Even as a kid, I was not happy just sitting at the sidelines being a supporter. I am someone who wants to do something with my life but 99% of the time, people just hold me back and it seriously cramps my style. A phoenix cannot act like a little bird forever....... it is destined to fly to the heavens but when people keep telling you that you can't....it is disheartening.I have enough of all
this........

I Wanna fly....I wanna fly..... I WILL FLY....I WILL FLY!!!!

Maybe deep down inside, I am just a frustrated artist who is chained down by what the world wants and expects..... but I WILL FLY....... cos I know I can!

Beary Least

It's wonderful what kind of pictures you can get from shooting a wedding.lolx

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Dark Secret

Dear Aver was not really in the mood today, thus we cut the shoot short.... but with her photoshop skills ...we actually did rather well.

Drawers

Rolls upon rolls of vertical drawers,
Where men try to climb.
The submit of the colony,
To claim rights divine.
Strolling along sand filled streets,
till chance do they meet.
Swirling their stick like hands in motion for food,
The right to mate and land.
In Coloured match boxes they scurried forward.
Thru life to death,
The soulless march.
Painted faces, forgotten names.
Just a number, a statistics.... what a shame.
On and on the ferris wheel turns.
Light, images and sound into the mind they burn.
Steeping forward thru the window.
onto the hands of time.
who will forget you and continue to chime.
A forgotten name.......
they all sigh.

Aver

Love is a wonderful thing.
I was like a lost sheep for so many years of my life......
wandering around without an aim.......
Losing track of time and traces of my sanity as the sands of time slips bymy hands.
It is very hard to remain sane when the people around him do not understand.
You will always be that unrealistic dreamer ........
Someone who is going to be left behind by the flow of time .

Ever waking moment was a horror.
Without fail, self doubts and insecurity tortures and torments my soul.
It tears me apart as a part of me longs to be fee to fly.......
with my easel and canvas to paint the world.
Another part of me begs for me to be realistic and feed the body rather than the soul.
Countless nights have been spent tossing and turning around in bed.
Fighting the war from within......
one with no half time or pit stops.......
just endless screaming as reality sticks a knife into me and slices me apart.

A tormented soul,I have been.......
now my salvation has appeared.
Your softness of touch has awoken me from my slumber......
the dreamer has becomer a DO-er,
and grows in strength every day from you sweet scent and charm,
I do not know what I will do without you,
my sweetest Goddess of love.....
My Venus.......
My eternity.........

3 times!!!

Up the stairs in front of the giant fish lion,
across the busy junction opposite an emerald.
up 3 flights of stairs near your lovely nest.......
I carried you......
like I never carried anyone before.......
your weight in my arms......
your body against my back.........
So close...... so warm.........
that it feels like forever.......
an eternity.
I wanna hold you forever, my dearest Venus!
You are mine! and mine alone!

Loving you....
Your Mars

AD Creative Productions

Finally got things going. It is harder than it seems setting up your own company.
So many things to look into. I am really glad I have Aver with me on this journey, she was the one who made me realise that I can actually do this...... Things are rather crazy at the moment.... still in the process of getting things together. I know we can do this together, Aver. I love you!

This is our little baby!!! AD Creative Productions RoX!!!

The Wedding Photographer part 2

Seems like me site is gonna be up soon! Yipee!!! Hugs and kisses to Aver!


More ramblings about going into wedding photography.......



Seems like it is more or less my calling to become a wedding photographer.... my "Divine Purpose?"

Sounds crazy but when you have Oracle cards telling you the same things over and over again....it tends to stick in your head too. I have always enjoyed making people feel pretty and good about themselves..... not necessarily in that order......lolx, but never have i thought about shaping it into a career.



Bought a book by Steve Sint with the title of "Wedding photography: Art,Business and Style" from Kino yesterday. Was reading it on the train after sending Aver home and found an article inside that was rather interesting.


The Author when he was young was so into photography that he wanted to become a Professional photographer in the worst possible way but never had much luck. There was once he happened to meet a "big shot" in the industry and was given this piece of advice: "Do wedding photography!" This offended Mr Sint but it made sense! Alot of photographers started out with zeal and wanting to be creators of big magazine spreads or wanting to cover major events in history...... becoming that "fly on the wall" that is the world's eye in the events that change the world. This however is unrealistic. You have no experience, no money, no patience and also no equipment!

Wedding photography however is regular work.


You gain experience shooting under all kinds of conditions including dark hallways and gloomy Gothic churches.


You are paid decently well if you know how to market yourself.


You have to wait for the perfect shot to happen in weddings...training your eye for details and patience in the process.


The steady flow of work means you will have the means to gest the equipment you lusted after and do not need to wait for a miracle to get them. As if camera, lenses and lights will drop from the sky.......


People tend to have negative perceptions about wedding photographers in comparison to people who do fashion spreads, wildlife, food photography etc. In fact, it can be an art form if you put your mind and soul into it.


Another article from the book was going on about how the photographer was in a cab( taxi in Singaporean terms.) and rushing to a wedding shoot. The cab driver saw the equipment and got curious and asked Mr Sint what he was shooting and where . Of course, we all know what his answer will be..... I am rushing to shoot a wedding and it is in XYZ hotel. The cab driver turn around and in a scornful tone said: "You know what? I am a photographer too but I can never bring myself down to shoot weddings!"

Hmmmm...... rather thought provoking I must say. Alot of "arty" photographers think that way too.


The ultimate punchline in this story was when the author thought to himself: " And I can never Bring myself down to driving a cab too."