Claymation dalmation

Here, dalmation = blue dog. "Blue dog" just isn't as catchy. Although there's that famous blue dog that appears in paintings....

Anyway, this isn't it.

I decided to revisit one of my old pastimes and made myself a little clay doggie. Yes, I was supposed to be writing a report. Then it cleverly dawned on me (translated: I was looking for a way to procrastinate) that I could make a short claymation video of the dog wagging his tail. So here's the dog:

And here's the video:

I just took a bunch of photos of the little dog, stuck them in windows movie maker and the video was done. More or less, anyway, there wasn't much to it. It wasn't a great procrastination project as it didn't take that long.

Furry and finned creatures

My small cat, Miki. She's seriously tiny. (update: we just weighed her, she's 3 kg)

The next photos are of the fish in my other tank. The zebra danio and the platy are both greedy devourers of other fish's food. That piece of food that they are eating is an algae wafer meant for the clown loach.

Poor clown loach. He's hanging out in his cave, resting against the "window ledge".

Playing with water

I played with water today. With a camera. With an external flash. With a bowl. And with a plastic bag filled with water.

The water was slightly out of focus, but I was generally pleased with the results. I'll be trying this out again in the future!

 

I've got to start bringing that DSLR out with me. I'm still so new to this, I'm embarrassed to be seen outside with a largish camera. But it needs to be done. There are so many interesting things out there; lots of interesting rainforest plants and creatures. I live right next to a park, and there are lovely trees just outside my bedroom window. Ok, I'm just a tad lazy.

Guitary

I've got to think of some better titles.

Here, I attempt to use vignetting on a photo of my beloved guitar to create an effect. What effect, I don't know. A sort of acoustic guitarish effect was what I was aiming for.

I take the effect further and transform the colors by playing with the hue and saturation. I loves me some purple and green!

 

I'll never look at my guitar the same way again.

Light

This was a long exposure taken in a very dark room; it was pitch black in here. The light drawing was done with a rather large flashlight. I bounced the light from the flashlight off the ceiling to illuminate the piano for the first few seconds of the exposure. Then I tried to draw out a note. I failed miserably.

Starless starless night

I made a lame attempt to take a photo of the few stars that are visible in Singapore's night sky from my balcony. The night sky in my area is lit competitively by factory lights, ship lights and street lights. Technique is probably somewhat to blame for the lame attempt as well.

A zoomed-in view:

 

 Just realized there are tons of artifacts. Oops, oh well.

Lazy cat

I wasn't feeling too great today, so I got lazy and didn't try looking for subjects. Luckily, Kazu was sleeping nearby with her paw over her face. Maybe she didn't want me taking any more photos of her face.