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Not the smartest advertising around but this will have to do :P Just a quick banner pointing to the Phoneography Monday Challenge since this post below is my late submission for it :P

Chandeliers in Formal Dining Space

Hanging Lights in Casual Dining Space

We were at Tim Palace (pictures #1-#3) for Fathers’ Day lunch.

The colour laser lights dancing on the chandeliers made them flash and sparkle above where we were sitting. It was interesting how different they look closeup from the bottom up (#1-#2) compared to the long shot (#3) of the dining space at the other end of the room from where I was sitting. Over there, the main light source was from the large screen display and the curved floor-to-ceiling windows since it was mid-day. The light and sound crew were setting up for a formal dinner later in the evening. There were security scanners being set up outside, which according to our uncle meant that either or both of the two key figures in our country will be attending the dinner that night.

On a different day, I took a more casual snapshot (from the moving escalator at the basement) of the organic cafe called Real Food where I had lunch. One sees straight lines at first, but notice the curved wash of light from the lamps that mirror the darker curved design in the flooring.

I didn’t plan it but once I had all the pictures in one post, I thought the way the pictures were taken were pretty reflective of the formal and casualness of each of the different dining experience:

	Formal Dining		Casual Dining
>	bottom up	>	top down
>	details	>	general long shot
>	planned shots	>	shot from moving escalator
>	more time to be trigger happy	>	1 hasty shot

Chandeliers in Formal Dining Space
Location: Tim Palace, Toa Payoh Safra Club
Picture #1, #2 – App: Camera+, Ansel filter
Picture #3 – App: Snapseed, Black and White filter, Center focus (vignette)

Hanging Lights in Casual Dining Space
Location: Real Food, Novena Sqaure 2
Picture #4 – App: Snapseed, Black and White filter, Center focus (vignette)

My last entry for Black and White Phoneography Monday explored light reflection, light and shadow in the interior of a mall called iVillage. I seem to like to picture interiors in black and white.

Donna and hippo in the living room

By weliveinaflat

On June 16, 2013

In Photography

A black and white of Donna panting slightly from running around after her toys playing fetch and tug.

What lies behind, what lies within the green facade

By weliveinaflat

On June 11, 2013

In Photography

On one of those random days, I was just hanging around downstairs waiting for Mr P to come by and pick me up in his car. I had just discovered iPhoneography Monday then. So I was trigger happy and adding junk shots to my camera roll.

This is a skinny young tree right by the foot path from our block of flats. You can barely see the bark behind the green stuff growing on it.

Not unlike my dog, I wrapped myself around the tree and tap, tap, tap… and before I knew it, I was at the back of the tree and this was clinging quietly right there. To tell the truth, I almost missed it because it blended with the tree so well.

I do confess my timid heart and this was as close as I dared to go for macro. :P Yes, even if I do believe it was quite dead. Mr P said otherwise and intimated that it will jump on me at any time.

And yes, I took liberties to add mysterious purple and deep green wounds to the tree to show you the potential or imaginary poison contagion left by the spider.

And then on my way home today, I found a section of the railing removed from the fencing running along the path. If I had a toy train, I would slip it inside and pretend it was a city rail tunnel.

Yup these are my close up shots for Phoneography Monday: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, HDR Art, Blendcam, Snapseed, InstaMag, HelloCamera

What does the sky look like?

By weliveinaflat

On June 7, 2013

In Photography

There’s a rainbow in the sky! Out came the iPhones and it was not just mine.

There is always something very compelling about the sky that makes me fill up the majority of the shot with it. The sky is the sky and yet it is so changeable. At times mild, at times dangerous. The sky is all wild nature, albeit sometimes tainted by man-made smog.

The strange thing about nature phoneography, at least for me, is how I am so tempted to make nature to be so much more than what it really is in real life.

The rainbow doesn’t look obvious enough. Let’s use the vibrant filter in camera+, let’s up the contrast in Snapseed, etc etc. And yet, I wanted the clouds to retain their soft colours and fluffy nature. So yes, I did continue to edit using Photoshop so that the editing was more specific to certain areas of the image only when it came to the clouds.

Quite some time back, I was awestruck by how the cross-winds sent the raindrops aflutter at more than twenty storeys high. Usually one sees the rain streak down in obvious pinstripes according to the direction of the prevailing wind. But that day, the rain drops flew like confetti in the air in all sorts of directions. Their frenzied activity caught in the light and I was mesmerised. What happen in nature in motion does not translate very well when one is using one’s phone to point and shoot.

That light-hearted flutter of tiny drops in the light gets lost. And so I try to achieve a sharper image with the clarity filter in Camera+, up the contrast, applied a gentle emo filter so that the tiny droplets show up against the darkened colours. It is of course a futile exercise.

What one ends up with… kind of like a stylised, sharp image of a moody scene peppered by dandruff for rain. I like it though. It looks like a town where Batman may visit :P

And then I wonder, what if I had taken my camera camera, not my handphone camera, and set it to achieve a longer exposure. Would that have captured the flying rain? Do I even know what I am talking about? :P

But still at least one image within this entry I would like, to be simple, basic, unedited and still interesting. And so, this is the one I have for you. The anvil-shaped cumulo nimbus in its gentle luminescent glory.

Which appeals to you more? Nature untouched or Nature made hyper-real?

Phoneography Monday: Nature
App used: Gorillacam, Camera+, Snapseed

My camera roll is full of junk

By weliveinaflat

On June 5, 2013

In Photography

It’s time to delete,
there’s no more space.
Gorillacam, Snapseed
refusing to save.

“We’re on strike!”
The apps are crashing.
The signs are clear,
Phone’s just not memory-sing.

It’s time to go,
free the parking lot,
please Batman and Robin,
this is not your slot.

So they raced past strange signboards,

Their capes uplifting.
Not sure ’bout their morals,
they almost went drifting.

A barking dog set them

scooting away,
ducking in the shadows
where gruesome holds sway.

“My wings’ getting tight,”
Batman stops in mid-flight,
“Rest I must.”
Robin dumbstruck by the fuss.

Batman hangs on a fence,
enjoys the cool breeze.
Security must be tight here.
Batman is pleased.

Because of the way it sounds in Chinese, a bat can be a sign of fortune to come. ; )

And yes, great excuse to purge the phone so that Donna pictures can erm… continue to be edited for future posts :P

This helped a lot in helping me to get rid of undeletable previously-synched photo albums in the iPhone that iTunes refused to let me remove. More than 12000mb saved!

lisamhos

Re: How to delete Photo Library from iPhone

Jul 9, 2012 11:04 AM (in response to davacoco)

I had this exact issue just now. I researched and compiled all of the answers. Surprisingly it worked.

1) On my PC desktop, I right clicked and created a new folder. I named it “Empty folder”.

2) I plugged in my phone to computer, opened iTunes.

3) Clicked on my phone on the left

4) Clicked on “photos” on the top

5) Clicked the box “Sync Photos with”

6) Choose the dropdown and “choose folder”

7) Click “desktop” option

8) Click on the folder that you created and named whatever you named it.

9) Click “apply/sync”

In doing so, it deleted the “Photo Library” with the little sunflower as well as a “My Photos” album it had also created, but it left all of my other photos that I wanted to keep.

I’m shocked that this actually worked.

Hope this helps you.

Forget the silver lining…

By weliveinaflat

On June 3, 2013

In Photography

… rainbow sighting from the balcony today!

A tiny rainbow has lost itself in our horizon today. Oh joy!

I was a sickly thing over the weekend. Yes, again. Hence this blog seems to have come to a bit of a standstill. : (

More activity when I recover. Thank you for the patience and love : ) while I slowly creep back into the zone. The viewfinder definitely helps with focusing! And also losing the big picture when one’s zoomed in too much! But yes, I’m blathering~

Morning Light

By weliveinaflat

On May 28, 2013

In Photography

I love early mornings when the sun casts shadows on the glowing concrete.

See the dog…

… and know the humans are never far away.

How much is that doggy in the background?

By weliveinaflat

On May 27, 2013

In Photography

It’s kind of hard to relegate Donna to the background when I’m supposed to be holding onto the leash, so we’re depending on some multiple-exposure app goodness here! Hah!

I guess the Japanese doll graphic is copyrighted to the tissue box manufacturer whose product I took a photo of. It was handy since I was busy blowing my nose off from the influenza. :P

Another one, this time comprising photos of the dog at different distances away from me in the living room. Can you spot the one in the background?

iPhoneography Challenge (Abstraction)
It seems we can choose from the list of themes provided this week. I was keen to further explore multiple exposures, so I chose to do Abstraction. Although I’m not sure if this really fits. :/ Heh~
Apps used: Pudding Camera, Blendcam, Gorillacam, Snapseed

Weekly iPhoneography: Seeing myVillage in black and white

By weliveinaflat

On May 21, 2013

In Photography

Today, the iPhone is a mysterious man that offers to sharpen your sense of sight and dull everything else, your taste, your hearing, your ability to touch and to smell. Right away, wouldn’t your world start to seem one dimensional?

What is food without scent and taste to colour it?

But hang on a minute, with sharpened sight, you start to notice details that you may have decided not to notice when you were dealing with all your senses at once.

You see light and shadow, pattern and movement. Little things that once escaped notice because they were insignificant, or in odd corners. Or because they helped form the part of the whole impression of a place, rather than demand your central attention. These little details enrich without calling attention to themselves.

But no, life is incomplete without all the senses at play. And even as you revel in your newly achieved clarity, your dulled senses start to return as the hypnotic iPhone runs out of battery. Slowly, you smell the Peking Duck and hear the buzz of chatter in the background. Sweet relief.

iPhoneography Monday
App: Gorillacam, Snapseed

Black and white photos can be so emotive even with its limited palette. It shows up the interplay of light and the dark in spaces, makes more pronounced the profile of people and things, removes the clutter that is colour and creates a moment of stillness that makes me anticipate the future that follows.

Pictures taken at myVillage, a little mall that we were visiting for porridge and some light dim sum.