Diary - new discovery "Blog Search"

Big surprise today, that's to find out a Google service "Blog Search". How amazing tool to let you find out many blogs with the content that you're most interested in. I searched the "cinematic", "cinematic photography" immediately. Then, find a GREAT GREAT wedding short film I have ever seen.

Original website: Cinematic Tide
(link the film here just for fast reviewing and bookmark, if not-allowed please tell me to remove it)

Today's Photo Retouch

Beautiful original image from the Tutorial

It's good to practice the retouch skill everyday by following online tutorial.
To imitate what teaches did and to summarize what I have learned are the ways to grow.

Tutorial steps from upper-left(Ori.) to upper-right: 
》Channel Mixing (Bias green)
》Blur->Surface Blur
》Curve to lighten
》Render->Lighting Effect (spotlight) with Soft-light layer blending

Tutorial from: Retouch A Girl with Lighting Focus

And the others are some works I like during the learning..

Sulfur Valley in YangMingShan National Park

This beautiful scenery is named “Sulfur Valley”, also called Big Sulfur Mouth, in the YangMingShan National Park in Taipei, Taiwan. We visited this famous place last weekend, at the same time, there’re some people to go on a picnic or to take bridal photography.

Taiwan Old Railway Stations #1 - Tanwen Station

▲ The old, wooden station main building.

There're many old railway stations in Taiwan, some of them still do the simple pick-up service, and the others transfer to be tourism use. The first one I wanna introduce is Tanwen Station. It locates at Miaoli County, and it's one of the stations on Western Line(Sea Line). Built in 1922 and renamed to Taiwen at March 1, 1955. The old style buildings are always good for me to take photos.

The image for 0315

Friday night, don't wanna care whether the color will be strange. Just play, use all the tools I understand to create the pictures in my mind. Felt relax at that moment and NOW.

》Canon 60D w/ Tamron 28-75:2.8, @50mm

miscellaneous styles

Good or bad to like many kinds of image styles? I guess the answer is the second one. Sometimes feel so jealous of those great photographers on flickr, how did they find out their personal styles?

》Canon 60D w/ super-multi-coated Takumar 28mm:3.5, @F3.5, 1/80, ISO800

Wanted Tone

Some pictures you know how they should be rendered at the first glance. The feeling could be positive, and I hope that becomes stronger. 

》Sony a100 with Minolta Beercan, @F4, 1/800, ISO400, 210mm.
》Photoshop CS2

旅行記憶 - Disney in California

關於攝影，最有趣的是當打開塵封許久的資料夾，不管是多久以前的記憶，都會一股腦的全倒出來，旅行中的人事物，瞬間全浮現眼前。幸好在驚喜不斷的2012以前，早已迷上了相機。 

照片是加州迪士尼裡的可愛建築物，園方在建築物後面裝上可愛的假山看板，配上加州天天藍得很過份的天空，那天看到這畫面一直揉眼睛，一整個覺得像幻覺，說不出哪裡怪但它卻真實地存在！-- 我的背包旅行@2012, California.

Blogger Design Notes

很快的來記錄一下今天對Blogger Template的修改；

1. 首先修改最上方的標題和敘述(description), 找到HTML的Header section, 修改以下兩個項目：

.header-inner .Header .titlewrapper {
  padding: 0px $(header.padding);
}

.header-inner .Header .descriptionwrapper {
  padding: 0 $(header.padding);
  position: relative;
  top: -15px;
  /*left: 440px;*/
}

2.再來是將每篇post上方的日期icon和標題, 更改為置中：

/* Headings
----------------------------------------------- */
h2 {
  margin: 0em 0 2em 0;
  font: $(widget.title.font);
  color: $(widget.title.text.color);
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align:center; /* casper added */
}
h3.post-title, .comments h4 {
  font: $(post.title.font);
  margin: 0em 0 0;
  text-align: center;
}

3.調整sidebar與post clolumn的間距：

.sidebar {
font-family: verdana;
font-size:1.1em;
padding-left: 40px;
}

另外就是增加了幾個小的CSS class for description texts,
重新加回syntax highlighter and configure the theme to "midnight",

Template哪天一不小心就被reset, 寫篇紀錄才可以恆久遠。

2013 武陵農場 x 櫻花 #1

第一次上武陵，第一次打從心裡覺得...原來生活在台灣，好幸福。

▲人聲鼎沸、遊客眾多，拿著相機與腳架慢慢的走在櫻花樹下，用心欣賞，總會發現屬於自己的畫面，正發亮著與你對望。

▲時時拿著腳架或許麻煩，但如能拍下兩個人都喜歡的照片，就會發現一切都是值得的！

▲遠遠看著妳拍照的樣子，是幸福。

▲武陵的櫻花，又叫紅粉佳人，我們很幸運地遇上好天氣，怎麼拍都漂亮。

▲不知名的白色花朵，滿滿一整片，讓人想起小時課本說的『數大便是美』。

▲山風吹來，急忙按下快門捕捉櫻花飄在空中的那一刻；那瞬間，身旁總有其他攝影師，與你做著相同的動作，感覺很奇妙，當下的我們，心中必定感受到同樣的美吧。

▲倒影@雪山登山口。要拍這畫面，必須走向20、30隻有點可怕的猴群，據說一落單就很容易被攻擊，幸虧遇到好心的當地人，招集大家一同向前，人多才好辦事(笑)。 稍晚，便眼見落單女遊客差點被猴群圍毆，過去幫忙的時候，才覺得腳架大隻還真不錯。

武陵的櫻花，未完 x 待續...

二月了，好快。

visit a passed film scene, and attracted by these paper chess.

浪漫的文案：歌手_家家

因為觀賞華星大道而知道"家家"這個原住民歌手，喜歡她那輕鬆、詼諧的原住民tone調。打開KKBOX、閱讀關於她《忘不記》這張的專輯介紹文，有些浪漫的詞句，又讓我想起狄波頓的文字。 

有時真的很羨慕會寫文案的廣告人，能隨手轉出浪漫的言語、能在腦海裡收錄這麼多的詞彙。

黑白照一則

日前閒逛茉莉書局，當看到兩本藏人作家唯色(Woeser)所著的文學作品《看不見的西藏》、《名為西藏的詩》，尤其是前者，當下似乎腦裡有個聲音『是了，一直想找的書不就是這個嗎？夠了。』 即刻就把手邊物品結帳開心走出書局，如此開心的購書經驗，還是第一回。

近來把握時間一天看一些，看到藏人們可以如此信服一個共同領袖達賴喇嘛，如此虔誠遠道朝聖只為滿足一生的心願，活在此般被欺壓的環境下仍堅定心智。藏人會於法會舉行期間自覺素食，朝佛轉經，甚至不說話、不吃肉，自老至幼無一不如此。令人懷念起，小時候的純真，那簡單的生活，看每件事情都不像現在這般覺得爾虞我詐、提心吊膽，多好！

作家，可以在親身參與「燃燈節」的夜晚，回到住處立即上傳網誌、照片，比照虔誠教徒固定時間誦經、朝聖，仔細想想，每天留下固定時間好好記錄生活，也許這一小段時間 也可獲得一種虔誠的平靜，像那心靈的禱告。

stop chasing the gears

People like me easily felt into the abyss of chasing photography gears blind. Most of time, we don't need so much actually. Collection Addiction, it's pleasure sometimes and time-wasting usually. 

Shoot with my old camera, Sony A-100.

All I see is the happiness between us, not the high ISO noise.

[Child in supermarket]

This picture is meaningful to me. It's the first time successfully to produce the color tone in my mind with Photoshop layer tool, not just use the color filters in other software.

100th.

a35 w/ Minolta 35-70 F4 @F4 1/60

拉哩拉紮的隨筆，竟也來到第100篇這個里程碑了，感覺很妙、也挺好的。
2013，會是個嶄新的開始；上了近五個月的攝影課，很突然的，由直覺主導，畫下個暫時的休止符！這困擾了我幾周的大石頭，總算在今晚帶點意外地順利放下，儘管那般不捨與糾結，還是得停下腳步好好地整理，再出發。

當然，攝影不會停止，只是換個方式，繼續在我的生活翻滾。僅以此篇為這難忘的夜晚，留下記錄...